Let us use medical records properly!

[Nanako]

Anyone who's worked in medical, and spied there way through the records, will notice that medical records have a lot of fields which are rarely or never used.

Example down below:

It has sections for Minor and major disabilities, diseases, and a Mental Status field. All of which can only be edited in-game, by people with access to the records. And as such, nothing can ever be put in these fields which persists between rounds.

This often results in people dumping a huge torrent of information into the only part of it they can edit during character creation, the Important Notes section

But these fields SHOULD be used. We have many crewmembers with prosthetic limbs, people who need glasses, people with misisng limbs or in wheelchairs, people with prescriptions for chronic pain, and one notable detective with COPD who requires dexalin. All of these things should be listed in the above fields, but instead they get dumped into the notes section. This seems silly.

So what i'm proposing is, give us a way to edit the other fields during Character Setup (ie, in the lobby, outside of a round), and input information there about our characters' diseases, disabilities, and special needs, which will persist across rounds. Giving the ability to set the mental status that way would be good too, employees marked as *Watch* would probably still be allowed to work, they should just be given special attention and consideration.

 

[Kaed]

Yes please. Same with security records. There are actually a plethora of things that are hardly ever filled out in the character creation screen, but most of them are due to negligence (exploitable infoooo) rather than it being mechanically impossible to do so.

Edited April 5, 2016 by Guest

[Dreviore]

I fully agree. I've spent a decent chunk of time working on Daniel Seraphs medical record, all the way down to a Oxycodone dependency.

I would love to be able to have a mental *watch* on my document the next time a doctor clones me without reading my damn notes.

[witchbells]

Yes, please, this, 100%.

Anyone who's played medical knows the pain of scrolling through "notes" to find prescriptions, disabilities, allergies, and w/e you need that is genuinely important in game.

Edited April 6, 2016 by Guest

[Owen]

Yes, that would definitely be an improvement. I actually made records so detailed for Auralia-Fedas Ro'Suos that they exceeded the allowed character limit for records. Anyway, that was off topic.

Medical Records and Security Records could benefit from this.