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OmegaBilly1 23 Aug @ 8:17pm
How many doctors would get mad if Healing magic were to ever exist?
That would also imply there would be other forms of magic.
But specifically we're talking about the classic healing magic you see in fantasy.
You know the kind that if you have a almost life threatening wound that can be patched up by the power of the mystic arts.

Depending on what type of magic system we're talking about depends on what it actually does and cannot do. Of course.

So. How many doctors would start screaming "They took our jobs." to people who are gifted at mending wounds trough magic?

...Imagine needing to have faith in order to use healing magic.
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Emurinus 23 Aug @ 8:19pm 
Most would upgrade from doctor to witchdoctor.
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Swarmfly 23 Aug @ 8:21pm 
It's not magic that keeps the doctor away.
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カイネ 23 Aug @ 8:21pm 
It would certainly have a major impact, as hospitals currently have a monopoly on human life and tragedy.
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OmegaBilly1 23 Aug @ 8:23pm 
Originally posted by Ｋiddiec͕̤̱͋̿͑͠at 🃏:
Originally posted by OmegaBilly1:
... So. How many doctors would start screaming "They took our jobs." to people who are gifted at mending wounds trough magic? ...
lol imagine thinking that this is how doctors supposedly are.

They aren't but we live in crazy world so the possibility is there.
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ˢᵈˣ FatCat 23 Aug @ 8:28pm 
acthually healing magic is accelerate your cells regenerate, which cells have a expiration to do regenerate, so basically the more you use heal, the more that person life-expectancy going down
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Iratus Machina 23 Aug @ 8:41pm 
You'd probably see a whole lotta clerics, maybe also paladins replacing 2/3rds of registered doctors within a year. Who's even going to need modern medicine when you can simply hire a professional to magic away the pain?

Edit: Now that I think about it, reality would start looking a bit more like Shadowrun if magic were to appear these days.
Last edited by Iratus Machina; 23 Aug @ 8:44pm
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pasa 24 Aug @ 2:45am 
Many. There are still some real healers among the doctors but in the "west" majority is just in for the fame fortune and glory. With no care about patient whatsoever.

A decade ago it was just a good guess but the covid era provided all the proof. In your vicinity how many stood up for patients and the actual medical science? Less than 1:1000? To be immedieately trampled by the rest, serving Pfizer and the politicians.
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St✩rlight 24 Aug @ 2:50am 
They would lobby the government and the scientists to say it's fake and harmful and try to get it banned. Lucky we can just cast mystic arrows in their stupid face.
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Tito Shivan 24 Aug @ 2:54am 
Originally posted by Emurinus:
Most would upgrade from doctor to witchdoctor.
This man business.

Originally posted by pasa:
A decade ago it was just a good guess but the covid era provided all the proof. In your vicinity how many stood up for patients and the actual medical science? Less than 1:1000?
The vast majority stood up for patients and medical science. That 1:1000 are the ones who put their patients in the harm's way because of ego, greed or whatever, by doing things like advising against vaccinations or the consumption of medicines that had no effect in the treatment of the pendemic.

But it's easier to find some anthropormzised culprit than dealing with the larger and actual fear of the situation.
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SpeedFreak1972 24 Aug @ 2:56am 
Not only Doctors I think a lot of pharma companies would also out of a job .... we surely can't let that happen to all those poor pharma billionaires ...
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steven1mac 24 Aug @ 3:08am 
It wouldn't take long before magic healing cost as much as modern medicine. It takes a lot of money to buy that second yacht, and the money has to come from somewhere.
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Reddari 24 Aug @ 6:32am 
It would have no effect since it already does exist. Its not a question of IF, but WHERE.

Most doctors are extremely oblivous to even existing healing technologies in public domain. Most of them would call even ancient simplistic healing techniques like acupuncture or nutritional support witchcraft.
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