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Old 03-06-2018, 05:18 PM   #37
malloyd
 
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Default Re: [Basic] Skill of the week: Esoteric Medicine

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Originally Posted by Flyndaran View Post
It's like the old joke: What do you call alternative medicine that works? Medicine.
If it works and is even somewhat predictable, then it can be studied like any "mundane" skill. The only way to separate them other than by specializations is if their use require advantages or traits that not everyone has like magery.
Well there are at least four separate "working" medical skills built around different approaches already - Physician, Pharmacy, Surgery and Veterinary - so having a fifth one isn't all that strange.

But in a lot of ways I think the issue is that we've got a special label - Physican - for Esoteric Medicine (Modern Western), or at least confuse the two a lot.
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