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Old 10-September-2006, 08:46 PM
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Originally Posted by harlequin View Post
In that case that the need for the medical specialist is so great then you will need more than one. I for one will assume that the doctor is likely to either get ill, get injured, or die.

Every critical skill will need to be duplicated multiple times among the crew. Indeed everyone will need to know a little bit of almost everything.
Touche'. In defense, I only listed specialties, not numbers. At the same time, I seem to recall a doctor on a recent Antarctic expedition that had to do surgery on herself, so the one person per position idea is not without precedent.
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