[1 Dismissal] Replace 'Emergency Physician' alt title with 'Physician's Assistant' OR just add Physician's Assistant

[Azande]

Emergency physician was the alt-title that paramedic players used before it's own individual job. We rarely, if ever (I've never seen one) have a player use the title.

Physician's Assistants are medical professionals able to do more than most nurses are (only really challenged/equalled by Nurse Practitioners) and assist physicians in providing primary healthcare through carrying out physical examinations, minor surgeries and treatments. PAs can also write prescriptions in most places. It would add a nice layer of diversity to Medical.

[Arrow768]

No. Emergency Physician is the alt title of a doctor.

The idea behind that is that a emergency physician teams up with a paramedic to perform competent on the spot live saving measures.

And I quite like using that alt title if I play medical (altough I havnt in a while)

The paramedic is different from the doctors and the interns as they have access to certain areas the doctors dont have.

They are meant to retrieve injured personell and bring them to the medbay.

So I cant really see how the alt title of "Physicians Assistant" would fit into the paramedic role.

(Why should a Physicians Assistant have access to EVA)

I could see that being added as a additional alt title to the medical intern.

[Azande]

Physician's Assistants usually can do more than a nurse, and nurse is an alt-title of Mediacal Doctor.

Emergency Physician is the alt title of a Medical Doctor, they do not get ANY extra access like a Paramedic.

None of your argument makes any sense, friend. I only suggested removing the EP alt-title because it's almost almost never used, and to avoid alt-title bloat.

[Chada1]

I use EP solely for one of my characters, and Paramedic wouldn't fit for them. Maybe EMT would. They are trained in Trauma Surgery which is the bare basics of Surgery, bone fractures, and splinting, but they don't do these things unless they are the only qualified personnel. That comes down to what an EP actually is.

An EP is an EMT who doesn't go out and retrieve people. That is a Paramedics job, that is a baseline EMTs job. An EP is there to make sure that patients don't slip through the seams and to work together with Paramedics to make it so that they don't have to watch over delivered patients. They prepare treatment that's called over radio for the Paramedic as they're retrieving patients, while a Nurse can do that, the EP would hand over patients to the Nurse, and treat those who noone else can tend to.

They are an inhouse EMT. I was confused at first, too, until I actually looked up what an EP actually is. It depends the region on that interpretation, but from that I can tell, in many countries it is a real thing, it's a form of EMS (Emergency Medical Service) that works within a Clinic/Hospital setting alongside Paramedics and stabilises/oversees arrived patients until they can be transfered to the professionals.

That is how I play it, and it's fun as sin, to me. And i'd really hate to see it gone. Basically, i'm saying, it may have originated as the EMT alt-title, but now it's taken on a new meaning, and it does fit if you know how it's used IRL. It can range from an Anaesthesiologist to an EMT trained for Chronic care of patients and Trauma Surgery. Emergency Medicine is a subject you can become a Doctor in, and those people would be known as an 'Emergency Physician', or just 'Physician', and not a Doctor, oddly enough.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_medicine <= More info there.

Past that wall of text, I really like the idea of Physicians Assistant, it seems useful, though i'd put it as an Alt-title for Doctor or something. I think we may already be getting an Alt-title for 'Medical Intern' vs 'Nursing Intern' so that will be in check already. If we take 'Emergency Physician' to not only mean ER Room-EMTs but also regular Doctorate Physicians, Physicians Assistant could make sense as an Alt-title for Nursing Intern. All I can say really on that, though, since Physician Assistants are highly trained, way more than a 'Nursing Intern' or an 'Intern' in general.

[LordFowl]

Voting for dismissal. The roles of each medical alt-title are already well-defined (more-so than most alt titles looking at you CSI/FT).

[Arrow768]

As mentioned above, I am supporting the dismissal