Doctor (credit to Redditor U/Maxhydro)

Whether you were a tribal witch-doctor, a medicine-man, a holy healer, a military field medic, or a genuine medical professional from an unusually enlightened society, you specialize in the treatment of suffering. You have seen injury, disease, poison, and death, and still you have defied it all, fighting to save every last soul.

As a medical professional, you have sworn the Hippocratic oath and do your best to adhere to its tenets. In so swearing, you have pledged your life to protect life, that all who suffer are your patient, to support other doctors as family, to train any who swear the oath, to practice to the best of your ability, to always improve upon the art, to practice only your specialization, to practice not for your own gain, to practice within the law, and to keep all of your patients' secrets.

Why did you turn away from the medical profession? Or if you haven't, what was it that drew you into the life of the adventurer? What do you think of the oath, or other doctors?

Skill Proficiencies: Medicine, Investigation

Tool Proficiencies: Medicine Kit

Languages: One of your choice

Equipment: Doctor's Tools, 2-man tent, bedroll, blanket, Book (About anatomy, disease, apothecary, or surgery), common clothes, five bars of soap, a belt pouch containing 5gp

Suggested Characteristics

Doctors may come from many walks of life, but all became enrolled in some place of higher learning, or at least were tutored by a renowned doctor, eventually swearing the Hippocratic oath - and that oath is not a light load to bear. Doctors often show their true colors under extreme stress, whether it makes them more studious, intense, and passionate, or clinical, intellectual, and unusually calm.

Many are troubled by harrowing events they bore witness to. Some are shockingly pragmatic, with an "it may not be pretty, but you'll live" approach to problems. Many are seemingly tireless, hard-working individuals. Some can be inspiring souls, with a deep appreciation not only for life itself, but for the people they keep alive as well. There is much debate among doctors as to just what the oath means, and what tenets have priority in any given situation.

d8	Personality Trait
1	All I think about is saving lives, or I dwell on lives that have been lost that I could have saved.
2	I practice in the name of my religion, nation, or clan.
3	I am cold and calculating in my every word and action, even when furious or frightened.
4	When the bodies hit the floor, my hands go into autopilot.
5	I consider magical healers and healing either to be cheating and unaccountable, or an integral future counterpart of a greater medical art.
6	I am waging a personal war on death itself.
7	I am entranced and inspired by the brilliance and glory of the living body.
8	I am actively involved in the medical society and engage in theoretical discourse and debate.

d6	Ideal
1	Life. I was put in this world to protect and save life. (Good)
2	Oath. I swore my oath, and now I must live by its tenets. (Lawful)
3	Vigilantism. No man can dictate who shall die, when, or how! (Chaotic)
4	Profit. Is it really too much to ask that all who come to me suffering also come bearing compensation? (Evil)
5	Survival. We are all in this together, for better or for worse. (Neutral)
6	Right. Everyone deserves to live. (Neutral)

d6	Bond
1	I owe everything to my home village/clan, for pooling their resources to have me educated.
2	I was pushed, or encouraged, into the field by my parents, one of whom may have been a doctor.
3	My professor is the most important person in the world to me.
4	My patients are my everything- losing one of them is like dying, but it never ends.
5	I took up the profession because someone close to me died of something treatable.
6	I started my training alone from texts I obtained by my own means.

d6	Flaw
1	I took the vow not realizing its full implications
2	No one can know that I have broken my vow.
3	I feel contempt for many of my patients.
4	I think I am better than other doctors, and other people in general.
5	Sometimes I go too far in my search for knowledge.
6	I am frightened/sickened by human suffering.