Subject: Thoughts...
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Posted on: 2010-05-26 20:51:00 UTC

*There's precedent in Medical for non-Flower department heads, of course. But wouldn't it be more of a "division head" than a department head? Or you could just call them "wards", like in a hospital.

*Medical already handles at least a large minority of non-human patients--not just anthros and pets, but creatures with biology that's not even based on Earth-style biochemistry. One can assume they're pretty flexible that way.

*Doctors do tend to specialize; but when their overall field is already so broad, it may be that to them there's not all that much difference between two mammals--say, a cat and a human--when on the same day they may be treating a Taxxon or a velociraptor... or even more bizarre things, like energy creatures or two-dimensional beings.

I think thereneedn't necessarily be a specific division, though there could be. But there are almost certainly specialist doctors--doctors who specialize in humans (as they're the largest group), or doctors who specialize in unusual biologies, or doctors who specialize in specific problems like resurrecting canon characters or monitoring and managing the glitter levels of ex-Sue agents. And yeah, with all the anthro and pet characters--I think it's very likely that there exist one or more doctors who specialize in the biology of Earth and parallel-Earth animal and anthropomorphic animal characters.

If there are subdivisions in Medical, they could also be functional divisions: A ward for Agents; a ward for canon characters; a ward for contagious problems; a ward to isolate characters who, left to their own devices, would attempt to assimilate HQ or get glomped by every fangirl within a ten-mile radius; a ward for rescued mpreg babies to grow to full-term before being transferred to the nursery.

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