[Basic] Skill of the week: First Aid

[Flyndaran]

Originally Posted by vicky_molokh

Huge TDMs are your friend. Many things that are 50%:50% for a regular combatant, unlikely to succeed for an untrained civilian, might be a 98% reliable at-a-glance thing for a trained medical doctor.

I could see Diagnosis in combat telling if someone is truly unconscious or just passed out from fear or pain or fell asleep from narcolepsy. Then again, I think, real E.D. doctors need tests like sternal rubbing or loudly suggesting catheters to identify faking.

(OT: I have an unusually insensitive sternum. I could sleep through that test.)

[CoyoteGestalt]

Originally Posted by Flyndaran

I just reread Vet. I have no idea where I got the erroneous belief that it had to be specialized by animal. I feel foolish now after so many posts in this thread.

Don't feel too bad. I think some GCA data sets have it set up as requiring specialization, too, and I've definitely seen a lot of character sheets with it written that way; I think a lot of us get that wrong frequently.