Maximum skill level by TL

[cosmicfish]

Originally Posted by David Johnston2

While it is true that there are increasingly more conditions for which characters will have no effective remedies as we go down the tech scale, and that there will be more conditions for which dice rolls will be penalized for lack of equipment and familiarity, that doesn't preclude character's ability to recognize that it is looking at a condition for which it can do nothing but use the patient as an experimental subject/source of income.

That may be so, but what is the point of high skill if all it allows you to do is recognize your paradoxic incompetence? And while tools are related to innovation and practice, a TL8 physician out in the wild can do things that a TL3 physician in a full hospital cannot even conceive.