I'd suggest you make this not just a deep space hospital station, but a hospital station combined with an attached deep space medical school.
You can get your players having as PCs the younger and more naive medical learners (students, interns, residents and medical fellows), and set aside the chance for them to play the more senior MDs until later.
Start off their 'training' not just with a orientations session, but a day shadowing a more seasoned and experienced medical attending or surgeon, and then have something spin out of that. Perhaps have a mini-campaign of a few sessions representing a 'year' of training, with four years required to get an MD, and years after that for additional specialty training.
For references, I'd suggest something a little different than you may be familiar with*, such as "Intern" by Dr. X (really SF writer and real MD Alan Nourse) that follows the first common rotation year of a young MD, "Doctor in the House" by Richard Gordon (you could also see the film for a funnier version), and "House of God" by Samuel Shem (darkly sardonic and black biting humor), and "Five Patients" by Micheal Crichton, which used to create pilot show for what later became ER
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* Although not stationary, don't forget to look into Murray Leinster's very good "Med Ship" series for ideas, which was most recently reprinted by Baen Books.
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Date: 2007-03-18 05:27 am (UTC)You can get your players having as PCs the younger and more naive medical learners (students, interns, residents and medical fellows), and set aside the chance for them to play the more senior MDs until later.
Start off their 'training' not just with a orientations session, but a day shadowing a more seasoned and experienced medical attending or surgeon, and then have something spin out of that. Perhaps have a mini-campaign of a few sessions representing a 'year' of training, with four years required to get an MD, and years after that for additional specialty training.
For references, I'd suggest something a little different than you may be familiar with*, such as "Intern" by Dr. X (really SF writer and real MD Alan Nourse) that follows the first common rotation year of a young MD, "Doctor in the House" by Richard Gordon (you could also see the film for a funnier version), and "House of God" by Samuel Shem (darkly sardonic and black biting humor), and "Five Patients" by Micheal Crichton, which used to create pilot show for what later became ER
::B::
* Although not stationary, don't forget to look into Murray Leinster's very good "Med Ship" series for ideas, which was most recently reprinted by Baen Books.