Medicine has always had your interest, if not your concern. Either you attended medical school or learn and practice with the help and knowledge of a mentor you may be regarded now as an accomplished physician. The anatomical principles, body fluids, organs function and therapeutic treatments have no secrets for you then.
When you choose this background, you may determine with your DM if you are a registered physician, a liberal one or if are considered as a fraud. You may also check, among other things, what would be the restrictions of your profession regarding laws and / or religion: is your line of work allowed, frowned upon or forbidden? In the last case how do you help people recover from diseases and illnesses? More generally, what is your approach towards medicine and patients?
- Skill Proficiencies: Investigation, Medicine
- Tool Proficiencies: Herbalism Kit, Alchemist’s Supplies
- Equipment: A symbol or a parchment from your medicine order, a set of common clothes, an herbalism kit (5 gp), two healer’s kit (10 gp), and 5 gp
People are always looking for a good physician, especially one then can trust. In cities, town or villages, you may open a small shop for a day and collect gossips from various inhabitants. Let the DM decide of their importance, they may lead you to an insignificant plot or an uncanny investigation.
Otherwise, whenever you present you symbol or parchment to any jurisdiction, you may access any competent authority in medicine, medical supply and building (hospital, asylum, morgue…) within the vicinity without further questioning.
Suggested Characteristics
Being a physician can be tough, morally and physically, but the best reward you can get is to see people healthy and happy. Whether you empathize with your patients, or consider yourself as a engineer operating on a machine, is to be determined below
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Personality Trait |
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I believe I can cure anyone from anything: I’ve been blessed by a deity. |
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2 |
Life needs things to live… especially an extraordinary good physician like me. |
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3 |
Hygiene is the most import thing. I wash myself more than I could count on a day and I beg my patients to do so. |
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4 |
People are stupid. Being healthy and avoiding diseases isn’t that hard… |
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5 |
I can cure you AND entertain you. How exciting is that, huh? |
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6 |
I sometimes need to drink alcohol before I operate. It gives me courage. |
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7 |
Even though, I’m not technically registered, I can practice. |
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8 |
I’ve seen some much sick and wounded people, sometimes I wonder what’s the point of all this… |
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d6 |
Ideal |
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1 |
Legitimacy. I’d never prescribe any treatment or do any surgery against any law, even if lives are at stake. (Lawful) |
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2 |
People. I always try to bond with my patients. If a patient trusts its physician, half the job is done. (Good) |
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3 |
Impartiality. I always try to heal my patients, regardless of who they are and what they’ve done. (Neutral) |
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4 |
Knowledge. Science always needs to improve, that’s why I sometimes experiment on patients. (Chaotic) |
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5 |
Greed. I’m mostly motivated by money. Being a physician highly pays. (Evil) |
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6 |
Humility. I can provide help for my patients, but I never stop learning from them. (Any) |
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d6 |
Bond |
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1 |
My mentor had no compassion for me or anyone, but I would do anything to impress him/her. |
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2 |
I couldn’t save my loved one, that’s why I’ve decided to save anyone who might need it. |
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3 |
The more people I help, the happier I am. Everything I do is in order to preserve life. |
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4 |
I regret that I’ve saved someone who caused suffering, harm and death thereafter. |
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5 |
I’ll prove to my order that I’m not as pathetic as they think. |
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6 |
I became a physician because of the one that saved me when I was young. He/she is my source of inspiration. |
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d6 |
Flaw |
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Even though I advise people on how to live, I’m addicted to a harmful substance. |
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2 |
I have tremors: sometimes my operations are not as successful as they should have been. |
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3 |
My services are not free. I’d operate then ask for money. |
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4 |
I can’t help but collecting germs, blood or body substances and organs. |
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5 |
I hate people and sometimes I give a patient a wrong treatment on purpose. |
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6 |
I only heal those of my own race or ethnicity. |
Some people view psychiatry as the poor cousin of medicine, either by distrust or disdain, but you are entitled as any doctor to provide help and cure, you simply don’t treat the same diseases, your concern is mental disorders. Though you can't see your patients' thoughts, you can map how and why they appear and then provide them solutions to cope and get rid of those mental mechanisms.
If you decide that your medical career involved psychiatry you can choose the Cold Reading feature instead of the Trusted Authority feature.
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Variant Proficiency Replace the tool proficiency Alchemist’s Supplies with the skill proficiency Insight. |
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As a psychiatrist you can rapidly evaluate someone, observing information no one would notice. When you meet a person, you can immediately assess its state of mind and possibly retrace what the person has been doing for a number of hours equal to your character level. You also gain advantage on Insight checks Otherwise, whenever you present you symbol or parchment to any jurisdiction, you may access any competent authority in medicine, medical supply and building (hospital, asylum, morgue…) within the vicinity without further questioning. |
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