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[sythyry]

After last night's deeds, there has been some debate among my friends. In Vheshrame, the Healers' Guild has one policy; in Yistreia, it has another.

Ghirbis' Position: The responsibility of the healer to her patient is supreme. She must take all plausible measures she can to save his life and cure his condition. (Illegal and immoral measures aren't plausible, etc., etc. Don't be silly.) A healer with several patients having crises should get help for all but one of them. A healer with one patient in a crisis and another not currently in a crisis should attend to the one in the crisis, and not reserve anything for the one not currently in one -- bearing in mind that few crises last longer than a day, and most resources are renewed at each dawntime.

Havune's Position: The responsibility of the healer to the community of patients is supreme. The healers should take all plausible measures she can to protect her patients collectively. A healer with several patients having crises should get help for all but one of them if she can; if she cannot, she should act to do the most good that she can with whatever resources she has. A healer with one patient in a crisis and another not currently in a crisis should help the one in a crisis, but save some cley for the other.

[Poll #520528]

Comments

[goodluckfox.livejournal.com]

True. But the physical laws are so wildly different there that it may be harder to do research. I mean, here, we can use the scientific method, and our experiments are repeatable. There, they may run the same experiment three times and get FIVE different final results. Plus most of what we know as biochemistry prolly doesn't work. We're made out of patterned quarks, muons, leptons, and assorted other hoohadery at the quantum physical level, and they're made out of raw magic at a similarly fundamental level.

It makes my brain hurt.

That said, I think it would be a hoot to see Sythyry use some of his off-Tree knowledge that we've been sharing with him. I can picture the converation now...

Sythyry: (something he could only have learned from us)
Everyone Else: Sythyry, has the nendrai driven you mad? You're not making any sense. Now stop speaking foolishness.

Loxley