un: beverly crusher; @everyone

[ethnobotany]

Since the medical staff keeps changing, I'd like a head count. If you have any kind of medical training - field medic, nurse, doctor, or anything in between even if it's just that you helped out in a crisis - would you mind letting me know? Even if I already know what you can do. You can tell me privately, if you'd rather. If you have skills, but would rather not be called on unless there's a crisis, let me know.

On that note, if anyone would like, I was thinking of offering medical classes. Honestly, the more people we have here who can respond in a crisis at all levels, the better all around. So if you're interested in medical lessons, let me know what you want to learn. Field medicine, triage, nurse, doctor. Or if you already know a few things and would like to help me teach, that would be wonderful as well.

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un: black knight | private

[lifeofadeathseeker]

The biome here is really different so I'm not too sure on what will apply and what won't, but I used herbs and plants used in cooking to treat most common ailments. Like illnesses, inflammation or food poisoning. I don't know if that will help.

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[ethnobotany]

I've actually got a herbal garden started here with various plants we use to supplement the medicine stock at the hospital. Your knowledge would be a great help, especially in identifying any of this planet's native flora.

[ even just having people to go "that looks familiar" or "i have no earthly clue what that even resembles" is a help. ]

If you'd like to learn anything about what I have or the native plants we've already run across here, I'd be happy to teach you. Mark Watney is another good botany resource as well.

[lifeofadeathseeker]

There is not much to find in winter but if you are willing to teach I am willing to learn. It would be helpful in the growing season to be able to make use of a garden. I've also heard of Watney before but have not met them yet.

I have noticed that you do not have some of the common diseases here, like bone's melt or stone fever. Well common to me that is.

[ethnobotany]

Of course. You might get lucky like I did and find a box of seeds that need planting.

From what I've seen, a lot of what's "common" in each of our individual universes isn't common here. Diseases, plants, animals, everything. It's like a whole new planet we're discovering the hard way.