SCIENTIST: MEDICAL

A Medical Scientist or Physician is a highly specialized PC whose knowledge are skills center on healing the injured and the sick. However, he will be able to exercise that knowledge and skill with patients of alien races as well as of his own race. He will also be able to do significant scientific research, analyzing and finding the cures for the most virulant xeno-diseases or developing bionic prosthetics for maimed personnel. Indeed, so potent are his talents that he will literally be able to 'raise the dead,' for advanced medicine has produced chemical capsules embedded within most personnel which resist tissue deterioration after clinical 'death' occurs, permitting a skilled Physician to 'repair' a damaged organism in much the came way that a Tech will repair a damaged piece of equipment. Tissue and organ implantation, limb grafts, quick tissue regeneration (rapid healing) and a host of other skills are available to him. Only if a 'dead' patient has been ton long in the throes of death or has suffered major brain injury will a Physician be powerless.