7 Doctors
Seven doctors, some of them pillars of the community, others with a hidden dark side.
1-The Dr Shipman
On the surface a skilled doctor and a popular GP, he once accidently killed an elderly patient and successfully covered it up, and then started secretly murdered those patients that he thought had no chance of pulling through or that he just disliked, in many cases co-signing their cremation forms. Some of his victims were buried rather then cremated, but as they were all old and/or very ill, as long as he does not try and financially benefit from any of the deaths, he has a very small chance of being found out.
2-The Quack
He means well, and has no malicious intentions, but he flunked out of medical school and is practising medicine without a license, risking getting jailed and/or accidently injuring or even outright killing one of his patients through negligence and simply not knowing what to do properly.
3-The Patch Adams
He firmly believes in the power of laughter as a help to modern medicine, and whilst he may certainly have a point in some cases, it's not that helpful when someone has something like cancer, and downright unhelpful if someone has a cracked rib.
4-Red Cross
She works in a warzone, helping both sides and the civilians equally. Although she is legally protected by the Geneva Convention and her hospital is properly marked, it is still a dangerous job and she wears a flak jacket in case of stray shrapnel or a misfired bullet.
5-Addicted
He has a secret addiction problem, being addicted to his own prescription opioid drugs, and his skills are suffering badly because of this. But he fears being struck off or even jailed if he admits the problem and books himself into rehab.
6-Mob Doc
He helps the members of organized crime, no matter who they are or which gang or club they belong to and charges the same flat fee to all regardless of rank. Injured in a gang fight or a bank raid gone wrong and can't go to hospital because it'll bring unwelcome police attention? You tortured someone but you don't want to kill the person but can't take them to hospital without risking arrest? One of your guns went off by mistake and injured a fellow gang member? Go to this doctor, he'll do his best and he'll never snitch afterwards. None of the gangs will kill him even though he helps their foes, as they all make very good use of his medical services and his silence afterwards. He's de facto immune to attack because of this.
7-Past It
He was once the finest surgeon of his generation, who restored many seriously ill famous people to health, but his sight is failing, his hands are trembling and his once genius brain is not what it once was, due to old age. And yet nobody has the heart to tell such a person to retire, even though if he carries on at his work he will sooner or later slip and kill one of his patients. He means well, but his body is close to expiring and is over eighty years old.
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I have edited one of the links for you, you can make it with the other one.
They are healing even undead? Sounds like they are going actually a bit too far in their passion for healing. You should really clear up the 'do not help the clearly evil' clause, as most undead are considered evil by default. 'Thank you', said the patched-up ghoul, 'now I can eat humans again!' ;)
I would be also interested in how they recruit new members - do they have ways of recognizing potentials, or is their (undoubtly positive) image enough to attract candidates? What tests do they use to weed out the unworthy?
While I have never had a problem with short submissions, this one is too short. Not because of its length so much, as the lack of information and lack of implied direction.
The write up is jumpy, bouncing from point to point. It is below even your standards of a post.
Healers of all stripes, got it. Do they train any of these people? So if you have magical healing you can join. Do they care how you heal?
*Exclude those who are clearly Evil. How do they determine that? So If I am wearing black, they won't heal me?
*Sliding Scale nobles vs beggers. got that.
*Do healing research. Okay how? Science, Magic, Experiments the Nazis would be proud of?
*Good to know Healers won't deliberately kill patients.
*Invoking The Red Cross/ Healers Neutral element.
*Oh wait, they are the red cross. Their motto is 'Always Heal, Never Harm' and their symbol is a red lancet on a white background.
**Okay, what tech level is your world? Lancets didn't appear here until the 1800s. That is a quibble, since they could be made in the mid to early 1700s, and really primitive ones could be made since 14C in Europe. (Quality of steel, getting something like surgical steel, all that).
*WE get a uniform and no weapons.
*They have spells. Who teaches them the spells? What about non spell casters? Do they use magic to heal?
*There are individual members that have even been known to heal the undead.. what about the section above : OBVIOUSLY EVIL!
Okay. A couple of questions:
Central Organization? Any? Are they just random groups of people who want to heal?
Do they attach themselves to religions? Since most healing magic is clerical.
Do they teach healing? Or do you have to come over to them?
If the Silver Stars exist in the world, why would there need to be another group in the same geographic region?
Aside: SilverStars train their people. So even an accomplished healer of this group would go through their training.
You seem to like driving out all my new submissions. This was meant to be in one huge group but that would have been too long a submission.
No. I would like you to complete a submission, a submission that answers all the basic questions one might have.
You tend to jump about in your write ups, never quite completing a thought. We know you know the answers to these questions in you head, but you need to write them out for people to read. The few times you have not jumped around in a submission, but clearly and logically presented the material, you have done a great job. So we know you can do these great pieces. That is why we want you to make the effort to make the piece as good as it can be.
So what I want you to do is start from the begining (always a good place to start). In this case, a section that explains the group and what it does. Then work out from there, covering each important aspect of the group in a section. Each little section needs to answer all the questions you might have about the group as related to that section. Then wrap it up and loosely connect it to the next small section.
Now the one thing is that you tend to write statements about things.. then not support them or clarify them. You write a statement and drop it like a bomb. Every statement of fact about your subject should be supported by other statements that explain or clarify it. Ideally, you can scatter those though the piece, but normally you use the next few lines to do it. What you should be doing is writing a statement (The Group does not heal Evils), then explain and support that statement. How do they define Evils? How do they know? What is an interesting bit of back story that explains it.
Now just make sure that everything you write is not contredicted by the material that comes before it or after it. That is just a bit of editing.
Make an outline of your work. I think you would end up doing better posts.
There is nothing long with long or short posts. Just spend the time on doing them right. Let the length take care of itself. If it is a long post, it is a long post.