Medical Policy

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Introduction

This policy serves to outline the OOC rules governing how you play medical roles on-station. The goal of this policy is to help set a basic minimum of conduct extending from the main server principles specific to how you play in medical as a department. If interested in an in-character set of guidelines and considerations for positioning yourself in roleplay, instead refer to the Medical SOP - this policy is for administrative enforcement.

Basic Requirements

As a player, playing medical has the following requirements:

• Make at least some good-faith effort to play the role you signed up for when called upon if you aren’t taking on another role in the round. Otherwise, don’t take it.
• Don’t go out of your way to subvert other players’ ability to play the game in the roles they’ve chosen without first having given them a chance to play those roles.
• Comply with the basic standards for medical play laid out in this policy.

Bad-faith failure to meet these requirements in a way violates the broader server principles may not only invite IC consequences but administrative action as well.

Your exemption from these requirements extends as far as whatever you are doing is judged to be more broadly consistent with the server’s greater guiding principles.

Specific Roles

Specific jobs within the medical department have specific, interlocking responsibilities and rules which apply.

Chief Medical Officer

• Judge, approve, and maintain medical sites according to the rules on Medical Sites, Surgery, and Revival.
• Authorize, inspect, approve, and announce contagious viruses according to the rules on Virology.
• As a member of Command: follow other requirements as laid out in Command Policy.

Virologist

• Only produce and release viruses according to the rules on Virology.

File:Generic Medical guard.gif Departmental Guards (Orderly)

• As a Department Guard: follow requirements about your powers, use of force, and general behavior laid out in Security Policy.

File:Mediborg.png Medical Cyborg

• As a Silicon: follow requirements for your behavior under standard and non-standard lawsets laid out in Silicon policy.

Specific Rules

Medical has specific rules around procedures that must be followed only around these areas listed below. These govern:

Medical Sites, Surgery, and Revival

This applies to all roles in the medical department including cyborgs.

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Medical sites are defined as, “Approved or pre-built spaces and facilities for providing medical care." These spaces and facilities must be approved by the Chief Medical Officer if not pre-mapped-in. Alterations to pre-built spaces and facilities must be approved by the Chief Medical Officer and should not be carried out without approval. This applies only to functional alterations meaning those which alter in some way the performance of medical work (i.e. adding/removing beds and computers.) In the instance of people joining the round late: the Chief Medical Officer's OOC power to approve alterations and sites only applies over those which did not have previous approval.
Revival may only take place outside of medical or a medical site under emergency conditions where transport to medical or a medical site is infeasible because they A) cannot be safely accessed for revival or B) cannot be transported to without undue risk of total loss of the patient In medical or a medical site, revivals must first be deferred to Medical Doctors with adequate opportunity given for them to respond and attend to the revival.

Virology

This applies to anyone engaging with virology.

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Except with admin permission, only beneficial viruses may be produced and intentionally released. Consult the Guide to Virology before any engagement with this content.
Non-contagious viruses (those with the ‘blood’ vector and no contagious symptoms like coughing/sneezing) should be looked at by at least one other person in medical (ideally the CMO or, in their absence, a virology-competent MD) or someone else familiar enough to evaluate them before release. They should also be clearly-labeled (ex. with symptoms, cures, and slime-safeness.)
Airborne/touch-spread viruses are allowed, but they may only be released only under the following conditions. Only the Chief Medical Officer, Captain, or Acting Captain may approve the release of a contagious healing virus. You must secure and keep their approval before releasing it. The virus must not cause harm to specific races or groups if self-spreading.

Additional Notes

An unofficial set of IC guidelines and Standard Operating Procedures exists to help inform role-playing in and around medical. These are not binding and should be considered optional supplemental material.

Last updated 04/12/2023 - policy editor Higgin#2299

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