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Basic Info

The Healercraft is one of the oldest crafts on Pern. Unlike all the crafts but the Beastcraft, it relies on hands-on training for its healers. A child who shows aptitude for the craft often apprentices under his local journeyman healer, training there up to senior apprentice before leaving to train under a Master for their Journeyman rank. Rank and specialist training is indicated in elaborate shoulder knots.

Information

Healer Guide

A quick guide to healing on Pern.

Herbal Scrolls

• Endless information on herbs and their many uses. For roleplay purposes only.

Infectious Diseases

Information on the infectious diseases of Pern and their treatment methods.

Pregnancy & Childbirth on Pern

Information on pregnancy on pern and our time-warped 6 month pregnancy.

Quick Guide to Treating Common Injuries

For roleplay purposes only

The Healer Hall at AHH

The Healer Hall at Amber Hills Hold is a new and unique healer hall. It is set up in a similar fashion to a "teaching hospital" and with that in mind, the following ranks and their real life equivalents have been made.

Ranks

Age - Pern Title - Real Life Equivalent

Healercraft Nursing
12 - Junior Apprentice - General Student
15 - Senior Apprentice - Orderly / Healthcare Assistant
18 - Junior Journeyman - CNA (Certified Nursing Assistant)
21 - Senior Journeyman - LPN (Licensed Practical Nurse)
30 - Master Healer Nurse - RN (Registered Nurse)
35 - Nursing Master - NP (Nurse Practitioner)

Healercraft "Doctors"
12 - Junior Apprentice - General Student
15 - Senior Apprentice - Orderly / Healthcare Assistant
18 - Junior Journeyman - Medical Intern
25 - Senior Journeyman - Resident
30 - Master Healer - Attending
40 - Hallmaster - Chief of Medicine

There would only be 1 Nursing Master, and 1 Hallmaster at the Hall.

Apprentice Healer Guide

Journeyman Healer Guide

Specialities

After an apprentice achieves Journeyman rank, he chooses a specialty & begins to direct most of his studies as a journeyman towards that calling. Those who don't choose a specialty go on to become general healers who are assigned to more remote holds.

Specialties include:

• nursing
• diagnostics
• pediatrics
• geriatrics
• midwifery
• urology
• herbalology
• dentistry
• surgery
• mindhealing
• massage therapy
• respiratory ailments

• Every Weyr will have at least one urologist and one surgeon.

• Healing on Pern is not extremely advanced. Surgery is rare, due to the Pernese aversion to it. Cesarean sections and repair surgery for 'Fall injuries and the like are the only surgeries commonly accepted due to the risk of infection and shock. Birth defects are virtually unknown, as the Pernese do not have the technology to sustain those born with them. Healers treat their patients in preventative manners for most common illnesses, prescribing tonics and teas that stave off illness.

Suicide

Suicide holds no stigma on Pern, as a person's death is considered a private matter. Euthanasia is practiced when the healer, his patient, and his Master agree that the illness is terminal and cannot be healed. A dragonrider who loses his dragon tends to end his own life, and none see this as wrong.