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Skin Game question --possible Michael issue **spoilers**

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Rasins:

--- Quote from: jonas on July 10, 2017, 05:31:56 PM ---lol That's what I was getting at with the earlier vague comment. The problem for most people there would be if the original division was in GP for MM alternate timelines. But I can think of at least two other spots that are feasible break offs. One of which is pretty much certain, but how the timeline(s) would react overall is harder to say.

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From what we've seen.  A change that occurred to Michael that would have given him training or not, would have occurred long before the series began.

Romulan Cmdr:
I saw one person on a FB use this as justification that Michael is now infected and evil. I disagree with that entirely.
(the person was saying Murphy and everyone who got kidnamed in Cold Days was now evil..)
I was wondering if it was in the scope of the particular area -a broken arm vs a person's current condition.
Or might be a typo that will get corrected later. 

Quantus:

--- Quote from: Romulan Cmdr on July 09, 2017, 11:16:54 PM ---So.. weird thing.
Michael mentions being a Corpsman when setting Harry's arm.
However in Grave Peril (I think) he mentions that only Charity has medical training.

Now while a Corpsman wouldnt say they were a doctor. They do have medical training -thoughts?

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From what I recall of the last time this came up was that it actually fit pretty well.  The crux was the relative levels of training and practical use of a medical Corpsman versus something more like an unlicensed Registered Nurse.  The sort of training Michael would have received would have been more akin to an EMT/paramedic, a sort of Extremely Advanced First Aid training, but being a single-tour recruit he'd have been the /help/ for the true Doctors for anything more. Michael's knowledge would have been focused on basic diagnosis and procedure-based treatments, but they'd need to make him useful quickly.  By contrast Charity could receive a great deal of academic medical training at home via various courses to be a Nurse Practitioner. If she's motivated enough to learn Armor-smithing and sword-fighting to support Michael, then devoting energy to Medical.


*Note that Im regurgitating what I recall of the topic, I personally have no first-hand knowledge of either the military or the medical industry. 

jonas:

--- Quote from: Rasins on July 10, 2017, 05:36:08 PM ---From what we've seen.  A change that occurred to Michael that would have given him training or not, would have occurred long before the series began.

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Exactly.

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