Field Chirurgeon - Field Chirurgeon Training: The expertise and training of local chirurgeons and other medicae professionals varies enormously across the Imperium and depends on a wide range of factors, from Feral World herbalists to hive city sawbones to the field medics of the Astra Militarum. On those Imperial worlds possessed of a relatively advanced technological base, the population might have access to many different forms of health care, though in practice this is normally drastically limited by social station, socioeconomic class, personal wealth, and other hierarchical factors.The one resource the Imperium is not lacking in is numbers and so life is cheap on even the most developed world. Only those who are valued by the monolithic local and Imperial institutions of power are generally afforded treatment for any ailment they might contract, while those deemed of little or no worth are denied it out of hand. In the most extreme of cases, individuals are kept alive long past their years using rejuvenat treatments simply because they have been classified by some impenetrable rating system as vital to some process, which itself might be obsolete.On the most primitive of worlds, medical care takes the form of all manner of potions, balms and herbal cures made from whatever sources are to hand. Those recruits taken from these worlds for the Astra Militarum with proper (or any) experience in basic medical skills and procedures, frequently find themselves continuing to propagate the practices of their homeworld on the battlefield as part of the Imperial military. Troopers also often prefer treatments to which they are accustomed, and a guardsman tithed from one of the many primitive or low-technology Imperial worlds is likely to refuse unfamiliar treatment but welcome a familiar folk remedy, even if the former is far more likely to save their life. Of course, there are many field medics who ignore their charges' wishes on the matter, using any and all knowledge they possess to save the lives of their stubborn comrades and apologising for saving their lives in a manner which they find uncomfortable later.Field Chirurgeons are generally trained by the regiment's ranking combat medics, and their training usually begins with a focus on how to stabilise a patient who has been grievously wounded until a more experienced individual can enact treatment. Of course, given the chaotic conditions of the battlefield, most troopers with any medical training at all quickly move beyond simply controlling injuries to treating them by simple necessity. Additionally, many formally trained medics possess or develop these rapid treatment skills, which augment their broad base of anatomical knowledge and allow them to perform triage more effectively in the field.Most individuals who receive limited training on these methods remain with their own units instead of serving with higher-ranking squads, their primary duties staying the same as the rest of their comrades. Many regiments expect their Field Chirurgeons to receive periodic training from their more formal medics, but others rely upon their members to learn through putting their skills into practice.In truth, life in the Astra Militarum is usually short and brutal and those wounded are very rarely released from service. In battle, the most attention wounded troopers can expect is the staunching of any immediate blood loss followed by the administration of a stimm shot powerful enough to get even the most wounded man up and charging at the enemy, though he will invariably die from system shock not long after the battle is concluded.