Surgery

Defaults: First Aid-12, Physician-5, Physiology-8, or Veterinary-5.
Prerequisites: First Aid or Physician.
Surgery/TL (IQ/Very Hard) is skill at using invasive medical techniques to treat sickness or injury. It has optional specialization.
Modifiers: Equipment and physiology modifiers apply; "-3 if the area or equipment cannot be properly cleaned and sterilized; -3 for head or chest surgery; -5 for undiagnosed problems. If you lack Physician skill, you are at -5 to do anything but “field-expedient” surgery (e.g., stitch wounds or extract arrowheads, bullets, and shrapnel)."
Category:TL Skills