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  1. Mount Zonah is moving to recruitment on a rolling basis. You can apply at any time here.
  2. Mount Zonah is hiring until August 31! Apply here.
  3. Recruitment is open for new physicians! See full details here.
  4. A few topics on our lsgov forum that those interested in the faction may find helpful: Character Development Expectations Frequently Asked Questions The second post was built off of many questions that I've received already. Answers are now in one centralized location. Further questions can be asked here or in the second link listed above.
  5. Yes, there's an MDC system that allows us to track prescriptions and patient histories.
  6. what I didn't know you were an artist Very nice!
  7. I'm glad that you're interested in applying, but our recruitment is not open yet! Still have a few more things to finalize Do apply when we open recruitment, though!
  8. Once we gauge the server's general interest in the faction, we'll see how to expand next. If there's enough interest in people joining the faction, then we may open it up to nurses, but there are no plans or timeline to do that at this point. Don't fear roleplaying as a doctor. We have detailed guides on what to do in the situations you'll see. For those interested in more depth, we're also writing specific guides on specialties as well. But, there is no required outside knowledge you'll need to bring in. I'd definitely encourage you to apply as a Resident Physician!
  9. There's information here (on the LSFD forums) about that! I will elaborate a little bit. We want to follow a realistic system, but there are a few constraints. There are no medical schools in-game (the last two years of med school are typically spent doing rounds in hospitals), so we simply ask that you RP that your character is in the 4th year of medical school and ready to apply for residencies. Now, you apply for residency through the AAMC - we roleplay that the application will be sent through that system. If you apply and are accepted, you will be asked to do an in-game interview. After that, you will do an examination and then training session before joining our staff. Those last few steps are for the sake of making sure you know how to some medical RP (at least according to the guides we provide) and do not reflect a realistic path toward residency. Yes, roleplaying a doctor was monotonous at times. I was not around in 2011, but some of the same problems existed in 2014 and beyond. A few things that I can say are that (1) creating new locations/interiors for roleplay were amazing for boosting our RP. We won't directly control this point, it requires the grace of the developers. When we redid ASGH (both times), it boosted RP. The chance for normal "domestic" RP, sharing camaraderie with fellow staff members, is facilitated by this as well. When we opened the pathology center, we packed that place with normal medical RP (check-ups, STD checks, blood tests, infections, minor injuries). (2) Hosting events creates RP. We had a fundraiser for cancer, for example, that allowed some white collar RP opportunities for our staff beyond just medical RP. Hosting other events like blood drives boosted fun competition among the legal factions and gave us new opportunities for RP. Advertising vaccination clinics or check-ups also brought in many players. (3) We need an interested player base. This point goes for both staff and for patients. If people don't want to do hospital RP (pre-hospital is mundane enough for some), not much we can do about that; however, if we advertise ourselves and have nice locations to RP in, we can have some fun. We will not control registration with non-LSFD physicians. Becoming a doctor is through the state, so the city faction should not have any interaction with that either. As LordSpyx explained above:
  10. Will y'all do in-game liturgies or just general church roleplay? I'm also unfamiliar with the juridical organization of the Eastern Catholic Church. Would, for example, the Eastern Catholic Church fall under the jurisdiction of the local Roman-rite bishop or does it fall under a separate system of Metropolitans/Bishops in the Eastern rite?
  11. I'd like to eventually, yes. Right now, we have a number of specialties and more focused fellowships ready for members to participate in. One of those is Clinical Psychiatry, but there are currently no people in that specialty. Those who join or transfer can decide to focus on psychiatry. As for point two, I decided to go with private hospital for a few reasons. First, my personal knowledge of and limited experience with hospitals in Los Angeles are Cedars-Sinai and Keck USC. Lacking a university to attach the hospital to, I decided to model the faction after the former. I have even less knowledge about public hospitals in LA. Second, it reiterates the point that we are fully independent from the LSFD on an in-character level. State-run hospital under the LSFD faction can perhaps blur that line. Third, all of the best hospitals in the greater Los Angeles area are private hospitals. Even those associated with University of California medical schools have private institutions (UCLA Ronald Reagan is private, Olive View-UCLA and Harbor-UCLA are public; UCI Medical Center seems to be private).
  12. Thank you! Thank you for allowing me to clarify this point. We provide just hospital care. We do not go into the field. We have no plans to interact with a private ambulance service at this point. The LSFD will bring patients to us. Let me explain further: I am modeling the hospital faction after Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. They are a non-profit, privately-run hospital in the Los Angeles area. While they are private, they still receive NIH funding for things like drug trials, research grants, and public health awareness campaigns. Cedars-Sinai also has a level 1 trauma center/emergency department in Beverly Hills. California law dictates that in a life-threatening emergency, ambulances - LAFD and private - must take patients to the nearest hospital that can handle their case (in less emergent cases, ambulances can give patients a choice of hospitals). Furthermore, Cedars-Sinai and other private and public institutions have worked with the LAFD on things like Advanced Provider Response Units - LAFD ambulances also staffed with a Nurse Practitioner. I don't know about the idiosyncrasies of this system - I could be mistaken, but I believe in general the LAFD does take patients to Cedar-Sinai's ED. I say all of this to demonstrate that a private hospital does not have a hard line around it that prevents any interaction with the government. I intend to follow this model with the hospital faction: non-profit with government interaction. If this does, however, bring up issues of liability on an IC level, I would not be objected to modeling the faction after a public hospital in LA or doing a contract with the LSFD to allow them to send patients our way. As of right now, there are no official hoops to jump through. I'm working on crafting as realistic a system we can expect on LS-RP that is still accessible to players. We've already got a prescription system and patient records system implemented in the script - one of the reasons why us being part of the LSFD on an OOC level is optimal. We're private only on an in-character level.
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