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[dennislp3]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_bench


better yet! its BOTH!

I just looked there, lol.

Wikipedia FTW!

[SirPenguin]

It goes Conquest, War, Famine, and then Death. Famine will occur sometime midweek when we're all starved for the new version, desperately F5ing the Downloads page to no avail. The release will of course mean that Death rides again, for many shall die that night.

[dennislp3]

Not by dwarven medical malpractice of course =P

well ok....give em a break...they are new at this to

[Leotto]

It goes Conquest, War, Famine, and then Death. Famine will occur sometime midweek when we're all starved for the new version, desperately F5ing the Downloads page to no avail. The release will of course mean that Death rides again, for many shall die that night.

Niiiiiiiice~

[Julius Clonkus]

Not by dwarven medical malpractice of course =P

well ok....give em a break...they are new at this to

Of course there will be medical malpractice! Half of us will forget to assign some points to surgery and generic wound treatment!

...

The other half, you ask? What a good question! The other half will intentionally forget the points just for the bloodshed!

[JanusTwoface]

If the mac version comes out later I think I might strangle someone everyone.

Wine is your friend methinks.  Works fine with the current version on Linux, so it might be worth looking into before the mac port comes out.

Also, *fingers crossed* that the Dwarf Therapist people can update to the new version quickly!  Definitely makes dealing with migrant waves quicker.  Methinks I can deal with it in exchange for a new version though.

[Totaku]

Well I use a wine device called Crossover with my Mac. And it works fine with my PC version of DF and it's alot faster than the mac version.

Why is this, I'll never know. So there are plenty of alternative for a mac user to play with thier DF games.

[Qiu]

Well I use a wine device called Crossover with my Mac. And it works fine with my PC version of DF and it's alot faster than the mac version.

Why is this, I'll never know. So there are plenty of alternative for a mac user to play with thier DF games.

Not for PPC mac users. 

[KillerClowns]

The horsemen are, in the original book of revelations: conquest, war, famine, and death.  Pestilence got conquest's job in the middle ages, when people realized just how apocalyptic disease could be.
EDIT: Sorry, SirPenguin, didn't see you'd beaten me to the punch.   

[Greiger]

I can't wait for the bugs.

A light bruise on any part of the body will cause medical dwarves to consider all of the patient's skin a lost cause. The doctor then flays the patient alive.

A military dwarf tantrums.  Then becomes completely useless in training as he now refuses to teach anything but throwing.

Cats will wander off into unexplored underworld in their hunt for vermin.  Sometimes pulling aggro on some very dangerous creatures on their way back. (Can double as a feature)

Kobolds will try to steal dwarf bones, while still inside the dwarf.   And succeed.

A bronze colossus will show up at your fortress.  A furnace operator will runoff, grab it, and melt it at a furnace.

You will be able to milk everything, even without the milkable tag.  It just produces _milk.

[Thor]

Not by dwarven medical malpractice of course =P

well ok....give em a break...they are new at this to

Of course there will be medical malpractice! Half of us will forget to assign some points to surgery and generic wound treatment!

...

The other half, you ask? What a good question! The other half will intentionally forget the points just for the bloodshed!

This raises an interesting point. If medical practise is very hard to get profficient with, we'll end up with our subjects missing arms because of misdiagnosis and a necrotic spine because of a botched surgery.
As Healthcare is gone and replaced with 7 skills, I'm interested to know how people are going to approach embark. For example:

Mr A puts his points into a profficient surgeon and a profficient surgical cleaner, but with Urist Mcbooksaredumb with 0 points in diagnosis, aren't all the poor sufferers of pandemic miasma inhalation going to have supposedly infected fingers amputated?

Mr B puts his points into Diagnosis and Cleaning, but the surgeon has a barbarians approach to lobotomys?

Mr C puts even points into all the skills, and ends up with a rambling mess with everyone just about knowlegeable enough to hold up a scalple.

Maybe healthcare is supposed to be like this though, as a midgame/endgame challenge that the Golbins haven't provided.

[bombcar]

The new discussion-based learning may allow them to gain some skill without actually sawing bones.

[Grax]

Also, *fingers crossed* that the Dwarf Therapist people can update to the new version quickly!  Definitely makes dealing with migrant waves quicker.  Methinks I can deal with it in exchange for a new version though.

It's out of question, i'll find them, because i just can't play without Therapist.
But all we have now is to sit and cool down and wait for the release. ;-(

[Julius Clonkus]

The new discussion-based learning may allow them to gain some skill without actually sawing bones.

Well, where will our medical dwarves who are going to teach the newcomers get their experience from in the first place?

[smjjames]

Also, *fingers crossed* that the Dwarf Therapist people can update to the new version quickly!  Definitely makes dealing with migrant waves quicker.  Methinks I can deal with it in exchange for a new version though.

It's out of question, i'll find them, because i just can't play without Therapist.

Me neither. I would really like to be able to use it in the next version. Shouldn't be too much stuff to add/change.