Being a Competent Doctor - Loadout and Prep

[Hughgent]

Hey Everybody,
This is Dr. Granite here to show you how he prepares for a day in Medbay. This isn’t Perfect, it’s competent. If you can do this, you’ll be completely ready to join the Doctors and be good enough at your job not to kill patients.
First things first. The important basics with links to get you started.
1. wiki/Doctor
2. wiki/Guide_to_Medicine
3. wiki/Surgery
4. wiki/Chem_Guide
From here as a baseline, it’s time to get more in-depth.
5. Surgery - viewtopic.php?f=94&t=11974
6. The Medbay Commandments - viewtopic.php?f=94&t=10868
Now this brings us to Dr. Granite himself.

The belt
M276 Pattern Medical Storage Rig:
Set of Splints
Advanced Trauma Kit
Advanced Burn Kit
Health Analyzer
Defib
Roller Bed
Antibiotic Pills
Peridaxon Pills
Quick Clot Pills
Dylovene Pills

The Pockets
Space Cleaner
Medical Pouch: Dex+ pills, Brain + Eye Pills, TriBica 8 8 Pills

Cryomix – 120 units – Large Beaker
10 Cryoxadone
10 Clonexadone
2.5 Peridaxon
2.5 Quick Clot
5 Dexaline Plus
10 Alkysine
10 Imidazoline
10 Tricordrazine
10 Dylovene
10 Bicardine
10 Kelotane
10 Dermaline
10 Iron
10 Sugar

Philosophy of Use:
There is a big elephant inside of Medbay that no one likes to talk about, called the Cryocells. A truly Fantastic piece of equipment for stabilizing patients for surgery. A properly set up Cryocell REPLACES the need to carry most every other medication.
Therefore, every patient that comes in hurt needs to be run through the cryocell before scanning. It helps no one if the patients heart stops mid-surgery and requires defibbing.
From there it’s Triage time and assigning surgery.

But how do you make this happen?
Don’t worry, Dr. Granite has sent in a home movie of himself getting set up.
https://youtu.be/dIQEpx-v0Qk: First ~30 minutes (I miss you Wubs4Scrubs)

What can I say, it works for Dr. Granite and doesn’t break Marine Law.
Argue about how this is ineffective and your own preparations are far superior below!

[DefinitelyAlone0309]

Have to say that I agree about almost everything here but the Peri and the Splints, and to an extension, the QC in the Medical Rig. If there's a time when you need em, it's SD/CIC defense when Alamo crash. Otherwise, you're in Medbay. You're expected to treat em for good, not delaying the symptoms.

If you're having someone who has like 50 organ damage or something in your lobby, just do surgeries on them. If they die before or during surgery, just finish the Organ Damage surgery first and then defib.

[Hughgent]

Have to say that I agree about almost everything here but the Peri and the Splints, and to an extension, the QC in the Medical Rig. If there's a time when you need em, it's SD/CIC defense when Alamo crash. Otherwise, you're in Medbay. You're expected to treat em for good, not delaying the symptoms.

If you're having someone who has like 50 organ damage or something in your lobby, just do surgeries on them. If they die before or during surgery, just finish the Organ Damage surgery first and then defib.

Basically the QC/Peri is for marines that come in a cryobag with zero QC/peri in their system and the OT's are full. it's an edge case for sure.

[DefinitelyAlone0309]

Basically the QC/Peri is for marines that come in a cryobag with zero QC/peri in their system and the OT's are full. it's an edge case for sure.

In that case, grab a roller bed and a spare internals kit. Put em on next to another person in another OR, and you + another doctor can do dual surgery. I've done it before, it's fun

[Dragoon47]

dual surgery

My poor necrotic flesh.

[Hughgent]

My poor necrotic flesh.

I have to agree, only thing worse than being put back together wrong is having to go under a second time to fix it.

[DefinitelyAlone0309]

Necrosis is one of the fastest to fix, with IB and limb replacement coming first. Compared to waiting for a doctor to get done and leaving your patients with a risk to die/burst, it's a much much better option

[Hughgent]

as an addendum to being a doctor in general.

Holy crap I love the Auto Doc. but, it does not handle any form of synthetic limb well at all. if a patient goes in with a synth limb damage, the auto doc gets hung up on fixing the burn or brute damage and never truly fixes the patient.

this is as it should be. it separates the doctors from the nurse practitioners.

in short, NEVER use the "autodoc" in automatic mode. You are better than it for diagnosing damage.

NEVER use the "surgical brute" or "surgical burn" surgeries because of the aforementioned reasons, as well as because patients can still process medicines while in the doc so they should have some tricord in them at the very least.

[RiskySikh]

I just hate those snowflake marines that come into Medibay with a broken hand which they could've splinted and they always fucking whine that I am not helping them, yet there are like so many marines dying of internal bleeding's and shit. pisses me off dog