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|access = All [[Job_Guides#Medical|Medical Departments]], including your office, [[Job_Guides#Station_Command|Bridge]], [[Engineering]], Construction, [[Job_Guides#Research|Research]].
|difficulty = Hard
|difficulty = Hard
|qualifications = At least 35 years of age, M.D., Bachelors in Management, 5 years medical experience.
|qualifications = At least 35 years of age, M.D., 5 years medical experience.
|education = [[Lunar University of Medical Science]] - [[Skalamar University Of Medicine]] - [[Biesel Institute of Medical Sciences]] - [[Aliose University of Medical Sciences]]
|employers = [[Stellar Corporate Conglomerate | The Stellar Corporate Conglomerate]]
|superior = [[Captain]]
|superior = [[Captain]]
|duties = Coordinate the [[Medical Doctor|doctors]], [[Chemist|chemists]], and [[Psychologist|psychiatrist]]  to ensure the health of all crew.
|duties = Coordinate the [[Medical Doctor|doctors]], [[Pharmacist|pharmacists]], and [[Psychologist|psychiatrist]]  to ensure the health of all crew.
|guides = [[Guide to Medicine]], [[Guide to Chemistry]], [[Surgery|Guide to Surgery]], [[Infections|Virology 101]], [[Chain of Command]]
|guides = [[Guide to Medicine]], [[Guide to Chemistry]], [[Surgery|Guide to Surgery]], [[Chain of Command]], [[Guide to Faxes]]
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The [[Chief Medical Officer]] is in charge of the health of the crew. They make sure that the [[Medical Doctor]]s are treating people effectively, and making sure the [[Virologist]]s and [[Chemist]]s are working for the good of the station.
The [[Chief Medical Officer]] is in charge of the health of the crew. They make sure that [[Paramedic]]s are staged at shootouts, that [[Physician]]s are triaging injuries, and that [[Pharmacist]]s aren't just shooting up red nightshade in their laboratory. They are also the command member to listen to when a medical biohazard has broken out on the ship.


== Overview ==
== Overview ==
You control the entire medbay. Other than treating injured crew, it is your responsibility to ensure that [[Chain of Command|important crew]] (including yourself) have received genetic backups and death alarms, and that all crew are using their suit sensors when [[Corporate Regulations|appropriate]],
You manage the entire medbay. Your primary task is to make sure everyone is doing their jobs, and not taking over someone else's. Other than treating injured crew, it is your responsibility to ensure that all crew are using their suit sensors when [[Corporate Regulations|appropriate]].


You are the foremost medical expert on the station. The ideal Chief Medical Officer would have the knowledge to perform common surgical operations, manufacture the most essential pharmaceuticals, and develop 'cures' for viral infection. You should allow your subordinates to handle the bulk of the work, but don't be afraid to lend a hand. The objective in mind is ensuring that everyone in the department has their place; if you delegate all of your duties completely, you've lost your own place.
You are the highest-ranking medical doctor on the ship. The ideal Chief Medical Officer should have the knowledge to perform common surgical operations, manufacture most basic pharmaceuticals, and treat common injuries. You should allow your '''subordinates to handle the bulk of the work''' and only jump in to help new players or fill in critical roles that your character would be able to perform. Like any other command member, your job is to delegate all of the work to everyone else, and be liaison between command and the medical department.  


== Your Job ==
== Medical Procedure ==
You are often regarded as the least important Head of Staff, but in reality, you hold a great deal of power. Without a competent Chief Medical Officer coordinating things, the medbay often dissolves into a chaotic mess that only manages to heal anybody through sheer coincidence.
Without a competent Chief Medical Officer coordinating things, the medbay often dissolves into a chaotic mess that only manages to help anybody through sheer coincidence. Your primary duty is to ensure that the crew is in top possible physical and mental shape.


Your primary duty is to ensure that the crew is in top possible physical and mental shape. To do this, you will need the help of your assigned crew. Medical Doctors take several shapes; Nurses, Surgeons, Virologists and Emergency Physicians. They all occupy the same slot, but have different, and obvious, specialties. The [[Chemist]] is responsible for the manufacture of important medicines. The [[Virologist]] is responsible for the development, and counteraction, of viral agents. The [[Psychologist]] is responsible for the mental health of crew.
To do this, you will need the help of your assigned crew.
* Medical doctors come in two varieties; [[Physician]]s are responsible for general treatment (and can perform minor surgeries like bone repair), and [[Surgeon]]s perform intensive, specialized surgery.  
* The [[Pharmacist]] is responsible for the manufacture of important medicines.  
* The [[Paramedic]] is responsible for transporting injured crewmen to the medbay, and stabilizing injured people while out in the field.
* The [[Psychologist]] is responsible for the mental health of crew, and can also prescribe medication and diagnose mental maladies as they see fit.


=== Specialized Staff ===
=== Getting Started ===
When the round starts, review your medical staff and assign jobs. Remember, Emergency Physicians, Surgeons, and regular Doctors are all the same job, and they're all required to treat patients. Their specific title just indicates a specialization. They can and should be able to be given assignments outside of that, so long as it still falls within the description of Medical Doctor work. If they're unable or unwilling to do basic medical work because "they're a surgeon, not a doctor", then they need reeducating about what their job actually entails.  
When the round starts, review your medical staff and assigned jobs. Physicians, surgeons, and paramedics are all essential medical personnel, and their specific title just indicates a specialization. They can and should be able to be given assignments outside of that, within the realm of common sense; a paramedic shouldn't be doing surgery, but if there's no physician, a surgeon shouldn't be refusing to treat patients in the General Treatment Room.


Make sure that you have a dedicated EMT team ready to respond to calls for medical assistance from outside of Medbay, someone manning the front desk to handle arrivals and minor cases, and someone - preferably a Surgeon - waiting in the wings to handle critical cases that require Cryo treatment or surgery. Each of these three assignments is vital for different reasons, and, once given a job, your staff should focus on doing that job exclusively except in case of emergency. If they don't, and they try to do someone else's job, it means that you have two doctors doing a job that could be done by one, and an area which is left understaffed. Make sure that everyone is entirely clear on exactly what their job is and why it is important.
Make sure that you have a dedicated paramedic team ready to respond to calls for medical assistance, someone manning the front desk to handle arrivals and minor cases, and someone - preferably a physician - waiting in the wings to handle critical cases that require major treatment or surgery. Each of these three assignments is vital for different reasons, and, once given a job, your staff should focus on doing that job exclusively and only help out when asked for instead of jumping in whenever they feel more competent. If they don't, and they try to do someone else's job, it means that you have two doctors doing a job that could be done by one, and an area which is left understaffed. Make sure that everyone is entirely clear on exactly what their job is and why it is important.


When everyone has their assignments, make sure that everybody has their Medical belts stocked with the basic tools of the trade - gauze, ointment, inaprovaline, and things like that. Emergency Physicians should carry more than most, and should have [[Medical_items#First_aid_kit|a variety of Medkits]] available for unusual cases, since they're the first responders and may have to deal with anything.
Make sure the GTR is prepared; blood bags should be attached to IVs, full oxygen tanks complete with medical masks should hang by the side, and the cryo tubes should be cooling at a temperature anywhere from 120 to 150 Kelvin. Also, make sure to fill the oxygen tanks attached to the stabilizer harnesses, and turn on their emergency positive pressure!
 
When everyone has their assignments, make sure that everybody has their medical belts stocked with the basic tools of the trade - advanced trauma kits, advanced burn kits, inaprovaline, and so forth. Paramedics should keep a variety of medication and emergency equipment on hand (such as stabilizer harnesses and stasis bags), as they'll be expected to deal with pretty much anything in the field.
 
(Also, medibots aren't that useful for a crowded medbay. What ''is'' useful are cleanbots, especially when your medbay has just survived a shootout.)


=== Chemical Fixes ===
=== Chemical Fixes ===
Once your main staff is set up, contact Chemistry and get them to start making medicines for your doctors. Clonexadone is a must-have, so have the Chemists take the cryoxadone from Cryo and mix some up immediately. Hyronalin, tricordrazine, alkysine, dexalin plus, spaceacillin, and ryetalyn are all important, so have those mixed up as soon as possible, and make sure that your doctors know that they're available and where to find them. Make sure that Virology gets some diluted milk and radium, too, or your Virologists won't be able to do anything. Once you have all of the basic medicines, have Chemistry mix up a little bit of everything and stock up on the important stuff.
Once your main staff is set up, contact the Pharmacy and get them to start making medicines for your doctors. The basic medications that should be on hand are:
 
* '''Butazoline:''' A stronger counterpart to bicaridine; heals brute damage.
* '''Dermaline:''' A stronger counterpart to kelotane ('''dermaline should not be mixed with kelotane'''). Heals burn damage, but doesn't prevent infections.
* '''Dexalin Plus:''' A stronger counterpart to dexalin. Provides 80% blood oxygenation when the lungs are injured, and helps prevent brain damage from low blood oxygenation from any source. '''Lethal to Vaurca'''.
* '''Mortaphenyl:''' A very strong painkiller that causes blurriness in vision. Shouldn't be mixed with alcohol.
* '''Alkysine:''' Heals brain damage above 85% blood oxygenation. Can be administered by IV drip.
Make sure that your doctors know that the medications are available and where to find them. Once you have all of the basic medicines, have the Pharmacy mix up organ regeneratives, better cryogenic chemicals, anti-radiation drugs, and any prescriptions present in character records.


=== Responding ===
=== Responding ===
As with other Head positions, a large part of your job is to be watchful for any calls for medical assistance. As soon as one comes in, make sure that your EMTs are responding and that the rest of your staff are ready to take in anybody who can't be treated in the field. It's also a good idea to ask for an [[Mechs#Odysseus|Odysseus]] from Robotics, preferably with two mounted Sleepers. Make sure that your EMTs know how to operate it; an Odysseus can save a lot of lives and make it possible for your EMTs to answer calls that they would normally be unable to due to its armour and internals.
As with other Head positions, a large part of your job is to be watchful for any calls for medical assistance. As soon as one comes in, make sure that your paramedics are responding and that the rest of your staff are <s>at the bar</s> ready to take in anybody who can't be treated in the field.


=== Outbreaks ===
Your paramedics should also have equipment such as inflatable doors and voidsuits at the ready, in case of a call inside an area experiencing atmospheric issues. ''Also'' make sure that your responders understand that the blinking lights on emergency shutters indicate a very atmospherically-hostile environment behind it.
When diseases break out, this is your chance to shine. You have a biohazard suit inside of your office. Use it. Then consult the [[Virologist]] and [[Chemist]]. You have the authority to isolate and detain anyone experiencing symptoms.


Vaccinate the medical personnel and quarantine the infected. Administer the drugs, keep people alive. Your [[Medical Doctor]]s should be helping with this, if they're not, shout them into line.
If you want, you can also ask the [[Machinist]] for an [[Guide_to_Robotics#Odysseus|exosuit]], preferably with mounted sleepers. Provided your paramedic knows how to operate it, an exosuit can be an extremely useful tool that allows access to safe response to dangerous areas, quicker.


=== Hypospray ===
=== Premium Hypospray and the Zeng-Hu Body Scanner ===
This is your medical tool, your lifeline.  It's a fast injector (dealing bursts of 5 units, with a fill limit of 30 units). You need to get rid of the chemicals inside before you can fill it with different medicine, which can be done by using the sink. It's considered very bad form to just go around injecting people however.
Every medical professional gets access to a hypospray, but you possess the greatest of them all; a premium hypospray, capable of instantly injecting up to thirty units of medicine at a time (you can adjust the injection rate by alt-clicking, or right-clicking and finding <code>Toggle Injection Rate</code>). Unless you're in a very busy situation, there's a likelihood that your premium hypospray won't see much use; you can give it to one of your paramedic, or perhaps a physician or surgeon.


Good candidates for your hypospray are Tricordrazine or Inaprovaline.
The Zeng-Hu body scanner is perhaps one of the most useful tools in your locker; it is a portable body scanner that can print an entire scan with a simple click on the patient in question. It is ''extremely'' useful for a patient that must be wheeled into the OR quickly, and as a good CMO it is imperative you leave it in a place accessible to your medbay.
 
=== Regarding DNCs ===
It is important to know and understand that if someone doesn't already have a DNC, and the cause of death was ''not'' suicide, then a DNC can only be enacted on the patient by you, the Captain, or majority head of staff ruling if both you and the captain are missing.


== Links to Other Departments ==
== Links to Other Departments ==
As the CMO, you're the link between the captain, the other heads of staff, and your medical department. Security will often be a source of casualties, whether officers or prisoners; make sure any doctor going to treat a dangerous prisoner has an escort. Science--especially Toxins and Xenobiology--will send you its share of patients, too. When your equipment gets blown up, Engineering can rebuild it. During an epidemic, one of your most important connections is, strangely enough, the lowly janitor, whose biosuit allows him to safely clean up infectious material and slow the spread of the disease. You will also be required to try to explain why people are [[cultist|going crazy]], [[changeling|returning from the dead]], or [[wizard|trapped in the body of a monkey]]. Good luck with that one.
As the CMO, you're the link between the captain, the other heads of staff, and your medical department. Security will often be a source of casualties, whether officers or prisoners; make sure any doctor going to treat a dangerous prisoner has an escort. Science - especially Xenobiology - will send you its share of patients, too. When your equipment gets blown up or starts throwing things at you, Engineering can rebuild it. Mining is <s>a good source of practice</s> often flying to dangerous planets; work with the Operations Manager for when the miners return injured. You will also be required to try to explain why people are [[cult|going crazy]], or [[changeling|returning from the dead]]. Good luck with that one.
 
== Traitoring ==
So, you're a traitor CMO? Don't fret. You have many possible tools to help with your objectives.  Your hypospray will help a bit, try filling it with Choral Hydrate for sedation purposes. You have access to [[Chemistry]], so you can sneak in there and make some space lube or similar. You can pretend to "heal" hurt targets brought in, and even disrupt some targets getting cloned.
 
The bottom line here is to be a bad doctor.
 
=== Changeling ===
As a changeling CMO, you've got plenty of options. One of your major goals is to capture Genetics so you can absorb genomes quite easily. The spray bottle and hypospray can both be used to knock out victims, and you can lure many humans on the pretense on healing them. CMOlings are best played stealthily. Try not to get anyone too suspicious with you, and see if you can snag an Assistant's card early for maintenance access (or ask the HoP for it.)


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Latest revision as of 21:20, 11 June 2024

MEDICAL & COMMAND STAFF
Chief Medical Officer
Chief Medical Officer
Access: All Medical Departments, including your office, Bridge, Engineering, Construction, Research.
Qualifications: At least 35 years of age, M.D., 5 years medical experience.
Employers: The Stellar Corporate Conglomerate
Supervisors: Captain
Duties: Coordinate the doctors, pharmacists, and psychiatrist to ensure the health of all crew.
Guides: Guide to Medicine, Guide to Chemistry, Guide to Surgery, Chain of Command, Guide to Faxes

The Chief Medical Officer is in charge of the health of the crew. They make sure that Paramedics are staged at shootouts, that Physicians are triaging injuries, and that Pharmacists aren't just shooting up red nightshade in their laboratory. They are also the command member to listen to when a medical biohazard has broken out on the ship.

Overview

You manage the entire medbay. Your primary task is to make sure everyone is doing their jobs, and not taking over someone else's. Other than treating injured crew, it is your responsibility to ensure that all crew are using their suit sensors when appropriate.

You are the highest-ranking medical doctor on the ship. The ideal Chief Medical Officer should have the knowledge to perform common surgical operations, manufacture most basic pharmaceuticals, and treat common injuries. You should allow your subordinates to handle the bulk of the work and only jump in to help new players or fill in critical roles that your character would be able to perform. Like any other command member, your job is to delegate all of the work to everyone else, and be liaison between command and the medical department.

Medical Procedure

Without a competent Chief Medical Officer coordinating things, the medbay often dissolves into a chaotic mess that only manages to help anybody through sheer coincidence. Your primary duty is to ensure that the crew is in top possible physical and mental shape.

To do this, you will need the help of your assigned crew.

  • Medical doctors come in two varieties; Physicians are responsible for general treatment (and can perform minor surgeries like bone repair), and Surgeons perform intensive, specialized surgery.
  • The Pharmacist is responsible for the manufacture of important medicines.
  • The Paramedic is responsible for transporting injured crewmen to the medbay, and stabilizing injured people while out in the field.
  • The Psychologist is responsible for the mental health of crew, and can also prescribe medication and diagnose mental maladies as they see fit.

Getting Started

When the round starts, review your medical staff and assigned jobs. Physicians, surgeons, and paramedics are all essential medical personnel, and their specific title just indicates a specialization. They can and should be able to be given assignments outside of that, within the realm of common sense; a paramedic shouldn't be doing surgery, but if there's no physician, a surgeon shouldn't be refusing to treat patients in the General Treatment Room.

Make sure that you have a dedicated paramedic team ready to respond to calls for medical assistance, someone manning the front desk to handle arrivals and minor cases, and someone - preferably a physician - waiting in the wings to handle critical cases that require major treatment or surgery. Each of these three assignments is vital for different reasons, and, once given a job, your staff should focus on doing that job exclusively and only help out when asked for instead of jumping in whenever they feel more competent. If they don't, and they try to do someone else's job, it means that you have two doctors doing a job that could be done by one, and an area which is left understaffed. Make sure that everyone is entirely clear on exactly what their job is and why it is important.

Make sure the GTR is prepared; blood bags should be attached to IVs, full oxygen tanks complete with medical masks should hang by the side, and the cryo tubes should be cooling at a temperature anywhere from 120 to 150 Kelvin. Also, make sure to fill the oxygen tanks attached to the stabilizer harnesses, and turn on their emergency positive pressure!

When everyone has their assignments, make sure that everybody has their medical belts stocked with the basic tools of the trade - advanced trauma kits, advanced burn kits, inaprovaline, and so forth. Paramedics should keep a variety of medication and emergency equipment on hand (such as stabilizer harnesses and stasis bags), as they'll be expected to deal with pretty much anything in the field.

(Also, medibots aren't that useful for a crowded medbay. What is useful are cleanbots, especially when your medbay has just survived a shootout.)

Chemical Fixes

Once your main staff is set up, contact the Pharmacy and get them to start making medicines for your doctors. The basic medications that should be on hand are:

  • Butazoline: A stronger counterpart to bicaridine; heals brute damage.
  • Dermaline: A stronger counterpart to kelotane (dermaline should not be mixed with kelotane). Heals burn damage, but doesn't prevent infections.
  • Dexalin Plus: A stronger counterpart to dexalin. Provides 80% blood oxygenation when the lungs are injured, and helps prevent brain damage from low blood oxygenation from any source. Lethal to Vaurca.
  • Mortaphenyl: A very strong painkiller that causes blurriness in vision. Shouldn't be mixed with alcohol.
  • Alkysine: Heals brain damage above 85% blood oxygenation. Can be administered by IV drip.

Make sure that your doctors know that the medications are available and where to find them. Once you have all of the basic medicines, have the Pharmacy mix up organ regeneratives, better cryogenic chemicals, anti-radiation drugs, and any prescriptions present in character records.

Responding

As with other Head positions, a large part of your job is to be watchful for any calls for medical assistance. As soon as one comes in, make sure that your paramedics are responding and that the rest of your staff are at the bar ready to take in anybody who can't be treated in the field.

Your paramedics should also have equipment such as inflatable doors and voidsuits at the ready, in case of a call inside an area experiencing atmospheric issues. Also make sure that your responders understand that the blinking lights on emergency shutters indicate a very atmospherically-hostile environment behind it.

If you want, you can also ask the Machinist for an exosuit, preferably with mounted sleepers. Provided your paramedic knows how to operate it, an exosuit can be an extremely useful tool that allows access to safe response to dangerous areas, quicker.

Premium Hypospray and the Zeng-Hu Body Scanner

Every medical professional gets access to a hypospray, but you possess the greatest of them all; a premium hypospray, capable of instantly injecting up to thirty units of medicine at a time (you can adjust the injection rate by alt-clicking, or right-clicking and finding Toggle Injection Rate). Unless you're in a very busy situation, there's a likelihood that your premium hypospray won't see much use; you can give it to one of your paramedic, or perhaps a physician or surgeon.

The Zeng-Hu body scanner is perhaps one of the most useful tools in your locker; it is a portable body scanner that can print an entire scan with a simple click on the patient in question. It is extremely useful for a patient that must be wheeled into the OR quickly, and as a good CMO it is imperative you leave it in a place accessible to your medbay.

Links to Other Departments

As the CMO, you're the link between the captain, the other heads of staff, and your medical department. Security will often be a source of casualties, whether officers or prisoners; make sure any doctor going to treat a dangerous prisoner has an escort. Science - especially Xenobiology - will send you its share of patients, too. When your equipment gets blown up or starts throwing things at you, Engineering can rebuild it. Mining is a good source of practice often flying to dangerous planets; work with the Operations Manager for when the miners return injured. You will also be required to try to explain why people are going crazy, or returning from the dead. Good luck with that one.

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