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Medicine is an item used in doctoring.

Acquisition

Medicine can either be purchased from traders, looted from raiders, or crafted at a drug lab using: cloth (x3), herbal medicine and neutroamine (skill requirement: medicine 6+ and crafting 3+).

Efficiency

Superior to herbal medicine but inferior to glitterworld medicine.

Best used for treating diseases and infections; misused if for standard injuries (unless a colonist is bleeding out faster than the herbal medicine completes to patch the wound).

Good enough for surgical operations in many cases, with a low chance of failure. If the doctor is bionic-enhanced, trauma savant or drug-enhanced then you can guarantee 100% success rate for most surgeries.

It is adequate against plague and malaria with ordinary beds so long as the patients are resting full time, well-fed, constantly treated and the doctor is healthy with medicine skill 8+.

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+Medicine is an item used in [[doctoring]].
-Medicine is used in [[doctoring]] to improve the results of medical treatment substantially compared to the organic [[herbal medicine]], but isn't as effective as [[glitterworld medicine]].
-In terms of Medicine's optimal use in regards to its medical potency: medicine is best used for treating diseases and infections; it's overkill for standard injuries (unless a pawn is bleeding out so rapidly that they'll bleed out even before herbal medicine treats the wounds), but also isn't good enough to reliably perform surgical operations - unless the doctor is bionic and is enhanced by potentially [[luciferium]] and [[go-juice]] in conjunction, or is a trauma savant. If you use ordinary medicine in surgical operations, you are generally going to be taking a somewhat significant risk, as you're less likely to succeed with ordinary medicine in Alpha 16 compared to if you were to use herbal medicine in Alpha 15.
+== Acquisition ==
+Medicine can either be purchased from traders, looted from [[raider]]s, or crafted at a [[drug lab]] using: [[cloth]] (x3), herbal medicine and [[neutroamine]] (skill requirement: medicine 6+ ''and'' crafting 3+).
+== Efficiency ==
+Superior to [[herbal medicine]] but inferior to [[glitterworld medicine]].
+Best used for treating diseases and infections; misused if for standard injuries (unless a colonist is bleeding out faster than the herbal medicine completes to patch the wound).
+Good enough for surgical operations in many cases, with a low chance of failure. If the doctor is bionic-enhanced, trauma savant or drug-enhanced then you can guarantee 100% success rate for most surgeries.
+It is adequate against [[plague]] and [[malaria]] with ordinary beds so long as the patients are resting full time, well-fed, constantly treated and the doctor is healthy with medicine skill 8+.
-Although there's a lot of talk about Medicine when it comes to diseases; ordinary Medicine is still adequate for treating even the [[plague]] and [[malaria]] with ordinary beds, providing that the patients are rested at all times and well-fed, treatment is prompt, and a healthy doctor with at least 8 or 9 medicine skill (even without the use of the holy grail that is [[penoxycyline]]).
-Medicine can either be looted from pirate [[raider]]s, purchased from outlandish/orbital traders, or manufactured at a [[drug lab]] using herbal medicine, [[cloth]], and [[neutroamine]]. For the latter option, only people with at least 6 medicine ''and'' 3 crafting can produce medicine.
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