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Originally Posted by malloyd
I don't think I'd insist on that high a skill for Surgery, it takes a lot more equipment bonuses than other medical skills, so you don't need to be as good to get plausible success levels.
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Isn't surgery also a group activity?
A general physician sits in his office alone, with the patient, trying to make a diagnosis, whereas surgery AFAIK involves 2 surgeons
and some highly qualified nurses,
plus an additional physicain to maintain the patient's anesthesia.
If the primary surgeon makes a mistake, there's a fairly large number of people who have a chance of noticing it and pointing it out, befor the patient bleeds unneessarily to death, whereas of the GP makes a mistake, it'll be weeks or months - or
too late - before it's discovered.