Healer

A Healer is a mix of physician and arcane caster. They practice both scientific medicine and magical healing. They use both to aid the other.
The profession comes from Greyhawke, but is uncommon there. The Healer serves both man and beast. They make no division between medicine for animals and medicine for people. Then again the number of different people requires a greater knowledge of anatomy and treatment, why stop there?
In the Greyhawke tradition there are a number of schools that exist to extend the practice:
*Maltaarano School Healers take a mind body holistic approach to healing. the object is to heal the body at its own rate. The Maltaarano Healer's School in, Maltaarano, the Julian School of Medicine in Woodmanor.
*Hippocratic School Healers are more forward urging and interventionist. They add the study of philosophy to the mix. Lectures on being will of mind and body are part of the regime. The Hippocratic_Sanitarium In Seahaven is the one known about. A number of schools are noted as being the Greek States and in Valon
*Hospitalers of the Rose combine Maltaarano school healing with a touch of religion. the Hospitalers of the Rose school in Scottsdale which we have heard of but not seen; half School, Hospital, and Temple.
The profession is slowly coming to Earth. Greyhawke does not have an excess of Healers so the only Healers on Earth are those natives that have taken up the practice.
About the only place to get the knowledge on Earth is the UCLA medical School where Julian Valaion is teaching. He has also divinely gifted several older and open minded Doctors and Veterinarians in the art.
The AMA is not entirely happy with the idea of the Healer practicing on both man and beast. It bothers them and breaks the "specialness" of Human medicine in their mind. The issue is hardly resolved.
The addition of the practice of xeno-medicine -- working on aliens, something that healers have always done further muddies the waters. The traditional role of the Doctor is changing even if magic is not thrown into the mix. The AMA and FDA are troubled.
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