On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Bicornis Goat <[email protected]> wrote: > How much would the Vow "will not try to save a dying patient" be > worth? This is for a physician who's also a member of a > death-worshipping religion. He believes it's good to relieve sickness > and injury, but once Death is coming for someone it's not his place to > interfere. > When exactly this will matter is still up to be determined; for a few > examples, he won't try to help someone with an unstabilized mortal > wound, or someone who's having a heart attack. He is still permitted > to euthanize dying patients. > _______________________________________________ > GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> > http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l >
You need to clarify what it means, first. Depending on the TL, all sorts of trauma that could result in death won't, if treated. Even at low TLs, medical treatment will save lives. Consider cholera. Even if you don't know that's it's caused by a bacteria, and that proper sanitation greatly reduces its spread, you can know that the way to treat it is with rehydration. Untreated, it's got a pretty high mortality rate (60% or so, higher in elderly and children, and people otherwise sick). Treated, even with just improvised oral rehydration, it's a lot less than 10%. (With good modern treatment, which includes antibiotics and IV fluids in bad cases, it's well less than 1%.) -- David Scheidt [email protected] _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
