Chief Medical Officer
PRIORITY: Not defined
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Superiors: Captain
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The Chief Medical Officer is in charge of the health of the crew. They make sure that the Medical Doctors are treating people effectively, and making sure the Virologists and Chemists are working for the good of the station.
Overview
You manage the entire medbay. Your primary task is to make sure everyone is doing their jobs and not taking over everyone else's lane. Other than treating injured crew, it is your responsibility to ensure that important crew (including yourself) have received genetic backups and death alarms, and that all crew are using their suit sensors when appropriate,
You are the medical expert leader on the station. The ideal Chief Medical Officer would have the knowledge to perform common surgical operations, manufacture most basic pharmaceuticals, and develop 'cures' for viral infection. You should allow your subordinates to handle the bulk of the work and only jump in to help new players or fill in critical roles that your character would be able to perform or what you have written in your records. The objective in mind is ensuring that everyone in the department has their place; if you delegate all of your duties completely, you've lost your own place you can empty the bridge bar without getting caught.
Your Job
You are often regarded as the least important Head of Staff, but in reality, you hold power over life and death a great deal of power. Without a competent Chief Medical Officer coordinating things, the medbay often dissolves into a chaotic mess that only manages to heal anybody through sheer coincidence or that one paramedic who you should really ahelp for doing surgery again.
Your primary duty is to ensure that the crew is in top possible physical and mental shape. To do this, you will need the help of your assigned crew. Medical Doctors take several shapes; Nurses, Surgeons, Virologists and Emergency Physicians. They all occupy the same slot, but have different, and obvious, specialties. The Chemist is responsible for the manufacture of important medicines. The Virologist is responsible for the development, and counteraction, of viral agents. The Psychologist is responsible for the mental health of crew since we removed cloning.
Specialized Staff
When the round starts, review your medical staff and assigned jobs. Remember, Emergency Physicians, Surgeons, and regular Doctors are all the same job, and they're all required to treat patients. Their specific title just indicates a specialization. They can and should be able to be given assignments outside of that, so long as it still falls within the description of Medical Doctor work. If they're unable or unwilling to do basic medical work because "they're a surgeon, not a doctor", then they need reeducating about what their job actually entails. If they decide to run out and do the paramedics job without getting told to, fire them explain to them the error of their ways.
Make sure that you have a dedicated EMT team ready to respond to calls for medical assistance from outside of Medbay, someone manning the front desk to handle arrivals and minor cases, and someone - preferably everyone and some officers a medical doctor - waiting in the wings to handle critical cases that require Cryo treatment or surgery. Each of these three assignments is vital for different reasons, and, once given a job, your staff should focus on doing that job exclusively except in case of emergency and only help out when asked for instead of jumping in whenever they feel more competent. If they don't, and they try to do someone else's job, it means that you have two doctors doing a job that could be done by three one, and an area which is left understaffed. Make sure that everyone is entirely clear on exactly what their job is and why it is important.
When everyone has their assignments, make sure that everybody has their Medical belts stocked with the basic tools of the trade - gauze, ointment, Inaprovaline, and things like that. Emergency Physicians, Paramedics and EMTs should carry more than most, and should have a variety of Medkits available for unusual cases, since they're the first responders and may have to deal with anything.
Chemical Fixes
Once your main staff is set up, contact Chemistry and get them to start making medicines for your doctors. Clonexadone is a must-have, so have the Chemists take the cryoxadone from Cryo and mix some up immediately, so have those mixed up as soon as possible, and make sure that your doctors know that they're available and where to find them. Make sure that Virology gets some diluted milk and radium, too, or your Virologists won't be able to do anything. Once you have all of the basic medicines, have Chemistry mix up a little bit of everything and stock up on the important stuff, or do all the work yourself decide to have a shift without every chemical known to man prepared an hour before the time police arrives.
Responding
As with other Head positions, a large part of your job is to be watchful for any calls for medical assistance. As soon as one comes in, make sure that your EMTs are responding and that the rest of your staff are ready to take in anybody who can't be treated in the field. It's also a good idea to ask for an Odysseus from Robotics, preferably with two mounted Sleepers. Make sure that your EMTs know how to operate it; an Odysseus can save a lot of lives and make it possible for your EMTs to answer calls that they would normally be unable to due to its armour and internals.
Outbreaks
When diseases break out, this is your chance to shine. You have a biohazard suit inside of your office. Use it. figure out if it's dangerous or just annoying by consulting the Virologist and Chemist. You have the authority to isolate and detain anyone experiencing symptoms, but will get laughed at if you try to get anyone to come to medical without offering a cure.
Vaccinate the medical personnel and quarantine the infected. Administer the drugs, keep people alive. Your Medical Doctors should be helping with this, if they're not, shout them into line. ask them for help like a decent human being and realize that them staying in their lane is a situation you will never again experience.
Hypospray
This is your medical tool, your lifeline. It comes inside the Hypokit in your locker. By default, it comes with a mix of omnizine, leporazine and atrophine. Use it in hand to remove this vial. The Hypokit has 15 slots (That's 14 vials + the hypospray. You can put in normal sized vials but... Why?) Hit it with a vial to insert that vial. You can even tacti-cool reload it like magazines! Alt+Click it to change its injection ammount. The large hypovials hold 120u. You can inject that 120u nearly instantly, if you so desire.
Good candidates for your hypospray are Tricordrazine or Epinephrine. whatever chemistry (or you) whips up. Sadly surgery does not fit into it yet.
Links to Other Departments
As the CMO, you're the link between the captain, the other heads of staff, and your medical department. Security will often be a source of casualties, whether officers or prisoners; make sure any doctor going to treat a dangerous prisoner has an escort. Science--especially Toxins and Xenobiology--will send you its share of patients, too. When your equipment gets blown up, Engineering can rebuild it. During an epidemic, one of your most important connections is, strangely enough, the lowly janitor, whose biosuit allows him to safely clean up infectious material and slow the spread of the disease. You will also be required to try to explain why people are going crazy, returning from the dead, or trapped in the body of a monkey. Good luck with that one.
Traitoring
So, you're a traitor CMO? Don't fret. You have many possible tools to help with your objectives. Your hypospray will help a bit, try filling it with Choral Hydrate for an easy ban sedation purposes (provide RP before doing that and keep in mind that there are others with hyposprays around you). You have access to Chemistry, so you can sneak in there and make some space lube thermite or similar.
The bottom line here is to be a bad doctor good antag.
Changeling
So you've spotted a possible changeling? You have a core understanding of what changelings are and their general abilities such as being able to shape shift, however, CMOs are not aware of the effects of BZ that knowledge is only afforded to the Research Director
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