So, I have a question about the status of medical fields and their advancement in Union. I'm hoping I'm not totally making a fool of myself by just missing some scrap of info here--
In his canon, Birthday was diagnosed as having an extremely life threatening disease (to the point where another character, who's special ability of sorts is to judge when people were going to die, states that he'd never seen someone with such a strong aura of death). It ends up coming down to a high risk surgery in his childhood, which Birthday survives (although some doctors comment that it's at least also partly thanks to his sheer will to survive). Thanks to the surgery his condition improves, although to say it's 'cured' wouldn't be strictly accurate as it's repeatedly mentioned that the possibility of relapsing back into it at any time is very real.
At any rate, what I'm asking is-- how well does this fit into Union, given the specific technological level? His exact disease, and thus the exact operation, aren't really stated, which leaves it a little more flexible. All we're really told is that whatever it is he suffers from was going to kill him if he didn't go into surgery and that the surgery itself was also risky, and that the possibility of relapsing is possible... However, I'm mostly wondering if Union would reasonably have the means for an all-or-nothing gamble sort of surgery like that, even if the specifics of it are ambiguous, or if I would have to tone it down to a more manageable illness for the setting.
Also, on a related note (more just out curiosity): where do medicine rank at, in terms of say, medications? Would the medical system as a whole be more comparable to old age "pop some leeches and maggots in there" stuff, herbal remedies galore and whatnot, or our concept of more modern medicine with, say, pills? How readily available is medical attention to the population outside of what would be considered nobility, and how big is the gap between quality, if any, between the social classes?
I'm sorry this is such a cluster of convoluted questions, and if I'm just... Missing it being stated plain and simple somewhere already as it is.
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In his canon, Birthday was diagnosed as having an extremely life threatening disease (to the point where another character, who's special ability of sorts is to judge when people were going to die, states that he'd never seen someone with such a strong aura of death). It ends up coming down to a high risk surgery in his childhood, which Birthday survives (although some doctors comment that it's at least also partly thanks to his sheer will to survive). Thanks to the surgery his condition improves, although to say it's 'cured' wouldn't be strictly accurate as it's repeatedly mentioned that the possibility of relapsing back into it at any time is very real.
At any rate, what I'm asking is-- how well does this fit into Union, given the specific technological level? His exact disease, and thus the exact operation, aren't really stated, which leaves it a little more flexible. All we're really told is that whatever it is he suffers from was going to kill him if he didn't go into surgery and that the surgery itself was also risky, and that the possibility of relapsing is possible... However, I'm mostly wondering if Union would reasonably have the means for an all-or-nothing gamble sort of surgery like that, even if the specifics of it are ambiguous, or if I would have to tone it down to a more manageable illness for the setting.
Also, on a related note (more just out curiosity): where do medicine rank at, in terms of say, medications? Would the medical system as a whole be more comparable to old age "pop some leeches and maggots in there" stuff, herbal remedies galore and whatnot, or our concept of more modern medicine with, say, pills? How readily available is medical attention to the population outside of what would be considered nobility, and how big is the gap between quality, if any, between the social classes?
I'm sorry this is such a cluster of convoluted questions, and if I'm just... Missing it being stated plain and simple somewhere already as it is.