DISCLAIMER At the time of writing this have I have 137hr as a corpsman, 53hrs as a doctor and 37hrs as a field Doctor. I think Im qualified but people prove me wrong, Im happy to learn. This guide assumes you know how to do triage and all the surgeries doctors normally perform.
-This op I had to fight off a burrower with a stolen CLF gun
OVERVIEW
Basically Field Doctor (FD), works to fix marines ground side with surgery as well as functioning as a resupply point for groundside corpsman. While groundside you will basically being doing surgeries that a normal corpsman cant do, including organ repair, bone fixing, limb replacement, and etc. You also might have to do IB repair or getting marines out of crit depending on the situation.
SETUP
Walking out of cryosleep you gotta get you geared up with the surgical vest found in field prep, boots and armor. Then you should work in the chemline unless there’s enough medical staff on to take your spot. If you ain’t working chemline they you should prep for deployment. For deployment you should definitely grab the spare wey med crate, the body scanner, medevac beacon, portable dialysis machine, YOUR SURGICAL VEST( Ive seen FD go without it which is dumb) and your medical tent. The stuff I listed are what I personally deem as essential for ground side deployment there a bunch of other stuff that should be grabbed but it depends on your play style. When thinking about packing you are a ground side doctor, you need to bring all the things you need for surgery and then some; extras include spare medical supplies,robot limbs. Its also good to bring things like IA, D+, and FN( I always take this for FD as severe blood loss is common , like 30% blood). The things I burn through the fastest were bonegel and blood packs, so try to pack alot and anything else you use alot.
GROUNDSIDE
When you get groundside you may have to start surgery before setting up. To do surgery groundside you only need your tools, rollerbed/ surgery bed, oxycodone and safety; having the tent just speeds up surgery.When you set up, look for an area that is noticeable to marines but not in the way of grabbing supplies or being able to defend cades. You want the injured to be able to gather around your tent without inhibiting operations in FOB. Once youre set up youre good to keep going until, marines win, FOB evac, or FOB gets OB’d. BIG NOTICE: LARVA REMOVAL, FOR THE MOST PART YOU CAN NOT DO LARVA REMOVAL GROUNDSIDE. To do larval removal you need a surgical table anything else you can not perform the surgery. If its safe take a group of marines with you to medical to set up a clinic in the ruins if its safe and not bombed too hell. To my knowledge you do not need power to work on the surgical table. Groundside removal is also possible if research makes a good anti parasitic. Other than that make sure to evac any infected marine via alamo or normandy ASAP.
FOB BREACH: THE QUEEN IS DECAPPING MY PATIENT AND I CAN ONLY WATCH
To start off FOB WILL be breached at least once playing FD. It happened to me my second op and it led to me get permad by CAS. After that I try to grab a boot knife and a gun. You can ask Req for the knife but, theyre stingy with guns so you may have to get one groundside. So in the event of an FOB breach from a burrower, a tunnel that didn’t get filled, or and entire side of cades gone, dont panic. If an evac order is given evac, dont try to stay and fight you are a doctor not a soldier. If the drop ship is overrun and people are running to the next LZ make sure you aint last and you aint first. If all hope is lost go out with a bang and perma yourself with 10 max cap ot nades. You should only give up if you have no patients, if you are treating someone or a group as FOB falls fight like hell to get them out safely, even if that includes fighting a prime queen with your scapel. Your job is to defend helpless marines and keep them safe or get them ready to fight.
At the end of the day you will win or lose or get hugged mid organ repair. You just have to learn as you go and learn to accept failure and have fun.
Hi yall this is my first guide so let me know if I missin anything or overlooked anything. Expand my knowledge and others.