Having known several nurses and doctors, the difference between an LPN, RN, EMT, and doctor specialists isn’t skill level, but regulations about who can do what. And this is shifting constantly. And at higher TLs you may well employ robots to perform the grunt work (e.g. bathing patients) that used to be performed by Nurses. 

For the simple approach, I would have a single medical career, and assign titles as ranks. For a more complicated approach I would think about splitting into tracks for nursing, EMed, general Practice doctor, and specialist doctor. 

The only other thing is Loren's advice, which is just because there isn’t a Shoemaker career does not mean there are no shoe makers. This should be focused on PCs.

On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 2:35 AM shadow at shadowgard.com (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:
On 6 Dec 2019 at 7:12, Jeff Zeitlin wrote:

> ... a MEDICAL career in Traveller.
>
> What should it look like?

Well, there are likely "nurse" and "doctor" tracks. though reality
gets even stranger with things like "nurse practioner".

> In the Classic/Mega model, obviously College and Medical School
> "pre-enlistment" options should be required, not options.
>
> In any version, what skills should be included in the career, and of
> them, which should be converted to cascade/cluster - or which should
> be converted from cascade/cluster to single skill?

Not sure, but the ranks/skil tree may want to go thru a couple levels
of first aid and on up to several levels of "first responder"/EMT.

Not sure if you want to go thru a "pre-med", "med student",
"intern/resident", doctor sequence or not.


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