Medical Director

Command Staff
Medical Director
Medical Director	Difficulty: Medium Requirements: None Access Level: Bridge, EVA, Teleporter, Medbay, Genetics, Robotics, Morgue, Pathology, Maintenance Additional Roleplay Access Level: None Supervisors: Captain Subordinates: Medical Doctor, Geneticist, Roboticist Responsibilities: Supervise and coordinate the medical department, work with other departments if necessary, ensure the well-being of patients and other people seeking aid from medical, help out your underlings Guides: AI Laws, Calling the Escape Shuttle, Chemicals, Chemistry, Cloning, Doctoring, Decomposition, Guide to Genetics, Medical Objects, Robots, Virus

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Your new home in space.

Your new home in space.

Your new home on the planet Magus.

Your new home in space.

Your new home under the Abzu sea.

Your new home in space. Far from where you ought to be.

Your new home in space.

Your new home in space.

Remember when the Head Surgeon used to be a real person instead of cardboard box? Well, the Medical Director (often abbreviated to MDir and occasionally MD, not to be confused with Medical Doctor) basically has the same responsibilities: coordinate MedSci's efforts, work together with the other heads of staff to ensure that medbay doesn't run out of supplies and help out when one of your departments happens to be understaffed.

The Medical (Director's) Kit

The nice thing about being the head of an understaffed and overworked department is that you at least get some cool stuff. Aside from the standard ProDoc Healthgoggles and medical belt, you spawn with a unique and stylish medical director's labcoat with slightly more chemical resistance than the standard labcoat. You also get a special "medical director's headset" with not one, not two, but three different channels:

• Research Channel (135.4) -> say :r
• Medical Channel (135.6) -> say :m
• Command Channel (135.8) -> say :h

The Medical Director's equipment locker in your office also has plenty of interesting items. Some of note:

• A doctor's bag, loaded with a personal set of surgery tools, so you don't have to pilfer the ones in the Operating Theatre or make some at the medical fabricator. It also comes with a syringe and a stethoscope, in case you prefer a more manual (i.e. slower), puzzle-like approach to diagnoses.
• A NT syringe gun, which is basically like a ranged hypospray.
• A tranquilizer rifle. In addition to being an...interesting way to administer haloperidol, you can also load it with mutadone darts, in case, say, a Traitor is using their Gamma Ray Exposure mutation to smash Medbay's walls and windows. You do not have a Firearms Carry Permit, so Securitrons and GuardBuddies will try to arrest you if they see you wielding it. Try asking the Head of Personnel, Captain, or Head of Security to add the permit to your ID card or stow the rifle in your bag if you see one of those robots approaching.

What's my job?

As the MD, you are the head of the frequently understaffed Medical Department and the Roboticists, Geneticists, and Medical Doctors that may or may not exist. As their boss, you should be familiar with basic as well as advanced medical procedures and should be at least somewhat proficient in the field of human augmentation. Construction and maintenance of cyborgs may also require your attention if Robotics is understaffed. Power cell upgrades, module rewrites, and limb replacements are just about the only things cyborgs can't do by themselves, so it's a nice gesture to lend them a hand. Since you are already there, why don't you build a medibot as well?

Another major aspect of your position is logistics. The lockers and vending machines stock a decent amount of medicine, but with greyshirts constantly streaming in, greedy chemists and just plain wasteful use of resources, medbay can and will burn through supplies incredibly quickly. While you can try to split the highly-desired hyposprays and healing patches between the doctors, it might not be enough in the long term. Thankfully, your ID card provides the access and credentials to address these problems! Head down to QM, order some medical supply crates or raw materials for the medical manufacturer and have them send to the MedSci cargo dock or M.U.L.E. delivery beacon in medbay. If they happen to be out of cash, use the bank records in customs or your own account to channel funds their way. Another feasible option is to enlist the Engineers. In return for new toys to play with (just let them scan anything they want), they will likely be happy to deliver a new medical vending machine or a couple of replacement defibrillators on request. You should also be aware that if the solars and engine are out of action, medbay is one of the first areas to lose equipment power, frequently bringing down the Cloner in the process. Yell at the Engineers occasionally to do their damn job.

As Medical Director, you can make your job, Medical Department's, and the entire crew's jobs easier by giving people Health Monitor Implants. These handy little devices will replace the standard health indicator with a more detailed damage type indicator and will alert medical PDAs when the implantee is in critical condition or dies, significantly reducing the amount of time it'll take to bring them medical aid or send them off to cloning or Robotics. They can be made in the Medical Fabricator and Robotics Manufacturer, and you give them out to people with an implanter or your trusty implant gun.

Every medical PDA receives an alert should a body arrive in the morgue, yet many people have a "couldn't care less" attitude about reviving the dead. You shouldn't! Check the morgue on a regular basis and ensure they actually make it to genetics or, at the very least, robotics. It might also be worthwhile to label useless bodies (braindead, borged, cloned, suicided) or simply give them to the chef or chaplain, so the same waste doesn't end up in medbay over and over again. When nothing is going on, joining the quest for superpowers be interesting too!

As the guy in charge, remember that communication is the key! Encourage your team to stay in touch via the medical channel, a frequency which is more often than not absolutely quiet. It's much easier to perform triage and deal with the victims of a mass bombing in an organized, efficient manner if the skills and equipment of everybody are known.

You also have access to a specialized ID computer within your office which allows you to grant access to your department in the form of job changes or granting specific accesses within your department's Access Levels list, or demote members of your department to a Staff Assistant, as well as granting EVA access in the event of emergencies.

If everything else fails, there is at least one doctor you can always count on: Dr. Acula, the friendly bat.

Crew Objectives

As a loyal crew member, you can sometimes be assigned some strictly optional objectives to keep yourself busy while you wait for something to happen. As a medical director, in addition to the Roboticist, Medical Doctor, and Geneticist objectives, you can also expect the following:

Ensure that Dr. Acula escapes on the shuttle.
You must sure that Dr. Acula, that bat in the lab coat and head mirror in your office is on the shuttle, alive and flapping, by the end of the round

If you keep him in your office, he'll usually make it through most of the round. Save for Atlas and to some extent Cogmap1, your office is fairly far away from the most common bombing targets in Medbay and the general station. Once the shuttle's called, haul him towards the Escape Arm somewhere within the six minutes of the shuttle's trip to the station, so you as much time as possible to deal with any complications. Ideally, you should store in him in a crate or locker or keep him in some room just a few seconds away from the Escape Arm, so that anybody who tries to bomb or rampage Escape doesn't hurt your pet bat in the process.

Once Dr. Acula is actually on the shuttle, you're basically home free. So long as you store him in a locker or put him in the cockpit or medical bay, he should make it through any last-minute shuttle bombings.

Ensure that Dr. Acula survives and drinks 200 units of blood by the end of the shift.
This is a little simpler than the above, since you just have the "keep them alive" part, and transporting him to Centcomm is optional.

There are many ways to feed Dr. Acula blood. One way to offer your arm up to him for sucking by click-dragging the bat onto you while aiming for an arm. A couple of feedings is usually enough to satisfy this objective; obviously, the load is much easier if you have other people chipping in. Dr. Acula can also sometimes drink blood from puddles of it or containers with blood in them, in addition to stealing blood when attacking people.

Ensure that the Head Surgeon escapes on the shuttle.
Yes, this is a copy of the one Staff Assistants get, and it's easier for you since you actually have access to where Head Surgeon actually spawns. He can appear as either a cardboard box or a medibot with a simple face on it, and he often appears in the Operating Theatre.

Have at least 5 people's DNA scanned in the cloning console at the end of the round.
This is same as the crew objective a Geneticist can get, and you can do much of same things to achieve it. Arguably, it's actually easier as Medical Director; you have more access than a Geneticist, so you can offer sweeter rewards for people who get scanned, like an augmentation.

Have at least five buttbots on the station level at the end of the round.
Have at least five medibots on the station level at the end of the round.
Ensure that there are at least three living cyborgs at the end of the round.
These too are copies of the crew objectives Roboticists get, and you can use the same strategies there for here. Since you are a Head of Staff though, you can try to order your subordinates into helping and enlist the AI and Cyborgs into the efforts or use your greater access to give good rewards for giving their butt/brain to the cause.

Do not commit a violent act all round. Punching someone, or shooting them with a laser will cause you to fail. Disarms are still allowed.
Use at least 10 medical patches on injured people.
Ensure that the cryo tanks are on and below 225K at the end of the round.
Make sure you are completely unhurt at the end of the round.
Once again, these are the same objectives another job gets, this time Medical Doctor. Same practices you would use for each as a Medical Doctor still apply when you're a Medical Director.

Herr Doktor: Antagonist Medical Director

So, you are an antagonist? It's not unlike being an antag Medical Doctor, but significantly more access and an aura of authority leave you with more options to get the dirty job done. As a head of staff, the AI will be more willing to open doors...or you could just lay in ambush on the bridge and sedate the Captain. With a bit of persuasion, you can also arrange that your target doesn't receive medical treatment and conveniently forget about certain bodies in the morgue. Not to mention unusual methods of surgery - all in the name of medical research, of course!

Traitor Medical Director

One of the perks of working for the Syndicate as a Traitor Medical Director is that you have a cool nine job-specific items available for purchase, more than a regular...contract doctor. Those items are: the AI Laser Upgrade Module, the Disguised AI Law Module, the mindhack cloning module, the Mindhack Cloning Module - Deluxe Package, the poison bottle, the poison bottle bundle, the safari kit, stimulants, and the syringe gun.

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