Replace Mass Spectrometers

[Azande]

Basically, blood testing takes two seconds - you take a syringe, inject one of the round start mass-spectrometers available in the department, and get your results. Or, for viruses, you scan the patient and it says 'VIRAL PATHOGEN DETECTED'.

I don't think either of these are cool or RP-ee.

My suggestion is to remove handheld spectrometers entirely (reagent scanners can stay I guess, or be merged into this) except as a product of science. To replace them, Biochemistry will be given a DNA Scanner machine like the CSI has, but this is only for sprites. This one will be labelled the 'Mass Spectrometer' , and require a vial of 15u (standard syringe) blood to give a proper read out. After 20-30 seconds, it will print out a report detailing all trace chemicals in the blood, and if a viral pathogen has been detected. If any known counter-agent to a poison is known as common medicine, it will also be listed on the sheet under 'Possible Treatments'
(such as Dylovene to Sopoforic/Chloral Hydrate)

This means doctors will have to interact with biochemists (the lab component of medical) for blood tests, and will no longer be able to instantly identify and counteract a poison in the blood (which basically makes poison useless on board).

 

[GreenBoi]

This is the same thing, but it now requires a different role and also makes CSIs have a harder time altogether. I don't see a reason to elongating the process past "it's fast rn"

If a poison was meant to be lethal, it'd be fast-acting or stacked with others to kill the person. If there's enough time to identify the chemical, counteract its effects, and fix the organs- it is not an effective strategy anyways.

[Azande]

2 hours ago, GreenBoi said:

This is the same thing, but it now requires a different role and also makes CSIs have a harder time altogether. I don't see a reason to elongating the process past "it's fast rn"

If a poison was meant to be lethal, it'd be fast-acting or stacked with others to kill the person. If there's enough time to identify the chemical, counteract its effects, and fix the organs- it is not an effective strategy anyways.

This is a suggestion for Medical, and encouraging CSIs to interact with them is not a bad thing. I didn't originally consider CSIs but we could give them a hybrid machine so they have their DNA scanner and a blood scanner in one.