Editing Skill Descriptions (section)

==MEDICINE== 
WIS, MANIPULATION, TRAINED ONLY, REQUIRES TOOLS
You’re trained in treating injuries and illness.
Check: The DC and effect depend on the task.
• Diagnosis (DC 10): You can diagnose injuries and ailments with an
eye toward treatment. At the GM’s discretion, a successful diagnosis
provides a +2 bonus on Medicine checks for treatment.
• Provide Care (DC 15): Providing care means treating a wounded
person for a day or more or providing routine medical treatment.
If successful, the patient adds your Medicine rank to any recovery
checks (see Damage, page 163). You can tend up to your skill rank
in patients at one time.
• Revive (DC 15): You can remove the dazed, stunned, or unconscious
conditions from a character. This check is a full-round action. A
successful check removes one condition. You can’t revive a dying character
without stabilizing him first.
• Stabilize (DC 15): As a standard action, a successful Medicine check
stabilizes a dying character.
• Treat Disease (DC 15): You can tend a character infected with a disease.
Every time the diseased character makes a saving throw against
disease effects (after the initial contamination), you make a Medicine
check requiring 10 minutes. If your check succeeds, you provide a
bonus on the character’s saving throw equal to your Medicine rank.
• Treat Poison (DC 15): You can tend a poisoned character. When a poisoned
character makes a saving throw against a poison’s secondary
effect, you make a Medicine check as a standard action. If the check
succeeds, you provide a bonus on the character’s saving throw equal
to your Medicine rank.
• Surgery (DC 15-30): You can perform surgical operations. The DC
ranges from 15 for routine procedures to 30 or more for tricky operations
like heart or brain surgery.
Try Again: Yes, for reviving dazed, stunned, or unconscious characters,
and stabilizing dying characters. No, for all other uses of the skill.
Action: Medicine checks take time based on the task, as described
above.
Special: You can take 10 when making a Medicine check. You can
take 20 only when giving long-term care or attempting to revive dazed,
stunned, or unconscious characters.
If you do not have the appropriate medical equipment, you take a –4
penalty on your check.
You can use the Medicine skill on yourself only to diagnose, provide care,
or treat disease or poison. You take a –5 penalty on checks when treating
yourself.