Vegas Hospital
The General Hospital of New Vegas, or Vegas Hospital for short, is the first hospital of its kind that operates on a level comparable, or even above, those of the Pre-War era. 35 stories high, with multiple Vertibird landing pads on the roof, back up generators in case of emergency, sterilized premises, state of the art medicine and equipment, and a highly trained staff on hand, the site is the only one of its kind in the wastes.
Here, thousands of patients ae treated everyday, for everything under the sun, from the common cold and burns, to bullet holes and even cancer, every medical procedure within modern medicine is performed here. The most surprising thing about all of this, is that all of this is free for the patients. With government subsidies, as well large donations on a regular basis from the New Vegas elite (in exchange for premium rates on cybernetics and implants), all procedures and care done on site are entirely without charge to the public. The only things a patient or client needs to pay for are long term medications, as well as cybernetics and implants.
Another stark contrast from pre-war medical practices, is that there are no real "general practioners" within the medical industry. Nurses and docters will have specialties. The docter who trains to treat pathogens like colds, flus, and illnesses, will not handle patients with burns, and the doctors that do deal with burns will not treat bullet wounds, and so on. Medical expectations have shifted from a doctor who is dealing with ten different patients with different ailments and they are expected to know how to deal with all, to a patient being assigned a doctor that only deals with what they are facing.
Training in the medical field is also drastically different, with the first year focusing on basics like drawing blood and lectures on other entry matters, included in this is extensive VR training. At the end of this year, one may join the hospital as a nurse, while continuing their second year to gain their specialty. Doctors continue past their second year, without joining as a nurse, and focusing their studies for five years. These studies delve deep into whatever specialty they are focusing on, and also included extensive VR training. Even then, most doctors will function similiar to apprentices for their first couple of years on the job.
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