02-01-2015, 08:03 PM | #31 |
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Re: [Basic] Skill of the week: Diagnosis
While I've heard that 80% of all health problems fix themselves on their own. Mysterious symptom? Wait a couple of weeks and it'll likely get better regardless.
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02-01-2015, 08:39 PM | #32 |
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Re: [Basic] Skill of the week: Diagnosis
Unfortunately "turn the system off and reboot" isn't an option.
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02-01-2015, 09:21 PM | #33 |
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Re: [Basic] Skill of the week: Diagnosis
Presumably on the Serengeti they have the opposite aphorism.
Funny thing about diagnosis: it's locally defined. Cross a border and your disease isn't recognized by the medical community as real.
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02-01-2015, 11:02 PM | #34 |
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Ha.
For minor psych issues, sleep can kind of work like that. At least it does for me.
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After all, up until this point, giving a psychopathological diagnosis is basically a question of practical knowledge as the neuro-imaging tests that allow for better and more accurate diagnosis are still on testing. So psychologists and psychiatrists have to rely on observation and knowledge of the subject, more than lab tests, even today. |
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02-02-2015, 06:14 PM | #36 |
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I tend to believe that psychology is at least a century behind other forms of medical studies due to stigmas and bigotries.
No one calls broken bones moral failures, for example. Gun shot wounds aren't caused by poor diets and bad habits.
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02-02-2015, 09:17 PM | #37 |
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Re: [Basic] Skill of the week: Diagnosis
IMC, Diagnosis usually is used for one of three purposes:
1: Identification of non-obvious ailments. Without proper diagnosis, the Physician may only treat symptoms. This may help, and even save a life, but the level of care provided is reduced. 2: Improve the treatment of obvious ailments. If your adventurer has "stabbing syndrome" or other such, diagnosis can identify the complications that need attention, granting +2 on the treatment skill. 3: Related to 1, Diagnosis often identifies if something is the domain of mundane medicine. Mystic afflictions (curses ect) can cause physical symptoms, but not be the domain of mundane medicine. I allow Diagnosis to identify what sort of other expert is needed. |
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Clearly this use case is highly curtailed in any setting where magic is non existent or very rare. Though it may be common in a universe with common but subtle magic. |
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