Are there any or are there just healers?
I'd think that someone would use medicine besides alchemy and magicka.

Probably yes, but I dont think we got so much information about just doctors thou. I couldn't find any relevant at info. at least about it.

What about that guy in Withershins, what was he?

Witchdoctor? Healer? Crazy buffoon?

Yeah, so he probably wouldn't fit into the category if a doc. :banghead:

There is torture, so there are probably amputations by "certified proffessionals". That isn't all it takes to be a doctor, but we should assume there are indeed doctors.

With restoration majick and alchemy, theres no real need for doctors.
There's also the stigma against defiling the dead to learn about anatomy, so surgical knowledge is probably limited
And just because someone can cut off someones arm with the intent of causing pain, that doesn't mean they can do it with the intent of saving them and not letting them bleed out.

Actually it looks like that is being practiced in Tamriel.



But there is probebly also a reason why that book didn't show up in Oblivion.

Because those kermudgens in the guild banned it. It is very true that most necromancers in Tamriel are not part of some murderous cult like the Order of the Black Worm, but rather they are like the mid to late nineteenth century surgeons who would hire grave robbers or pay for a crimminal's corpse to disect and study further.

Yeah, and with water walking spells there is no need for boats. With illusion spells there is no need for clothes. With jumping spells there is no need for stairs. They've got the life.

Most citizens, I imagine, are limited to the "novice" level or "apprentice" level spells found in Oblivion. They don't have a vast pool of magicka either, because they do not understand magecraft. My point is that, though the layman could become a great wizard, the undertaking is much too difficult. It demands a life time of dabbling, set backs, false revelations, and being nagged at by the Guild of Stooges until you finaly capitulate and join, becoming a slave to rank privilages. Ontop of difficulties as a mage, it is against human nature to simply drop your family's trade and attempt learning something completely different. This is why we do not have master wizards levitating around everyplace.

Hey buddy, don't forget your feather spells, wouldn't want to get stuck standing still in the middle of niben bay now would ya? As for the Op's question, I'd imagine that surgical skills are of meager value considering the plethora of restoration spells and alchemy that can cure diseases with just a potion. That said, Anatomical studies would still be important to understanding how to properly apply restorative magicks, and I'd also imagine that true surgery is still needd for grevious injuries that are above the local healer's skills.

The Arena Bloodworks has what appears to be an amputation table if you look close enough. *would take screenie but doesn't have PC version*

I'd imagine there are people you'd see for a cold or flu or something. Probably healers with disease specialty. It kinda bothered me that one spell cured almost all diseases in game. Seemed too easy to me.

Wit Morrowind's way of dealing with magic, there still would be a need for mundane healing : with magicka pool that restores only when resting, healing with magic isn't easily done all day long. Magic restoration potions solve it at a cost. No everyone is willing or able for fork that cost for healing a flu or scratch.

They probably supplement each other rather replacing entirely - a wound that's been already prepared and stitched will take less magicka to heal, you can mix herbalism and magic to cure a disease and so on.

You're starting to sound Telvanni.

No, all the things you listed are needed on a daily basis, where as medicine and healing are needed much less frequently.

But obviously even in Morrowind and Oblivion there isn't someone that can cast healing spells in every town. If you can believe they have no doctors, I willing to let you.

Dr. Hawking doesn't know very much about measles. It's a class of licensed professionals, and not about medical expertise alone.

So I don't know. A bunch of court healers hobnobbing in the corner about their potted plants at the region's feudal meet and greet could qualify.

In Morrowind, the temple supposedly provides free services of healing to those that cannot pay, and the Imperial Cult has lay healers. And of course, the Temple also sends people out to heal others.

Well I guess we can come to the conclusion that we aren't sure that there are any doctors at the moment.

I thought doctors were healers?

And are there barbers? If so, maybe they're the surgeons no one can find proof of. :unsure:

Isn't barbers people who shaves beards and cuts peoples hair?

Nowadays, yes, that's all they do. Barbers used to also double as the town surgeons/doctors. The College of Surgeons in England (or is it Scotland?) were originally called the College of Barber Surgeons. As Tamriel seems to have very strong parallels to our own medieval and renaissance periods (well, a lot of it does anyway), it sounded logical to me at the time.

Fun Fact: The red and white 'barber poles' seen outside modern salons are based on the bloody bandages the barbers hung up to dry outside their shops.

Oh, awesome thanks for the information.

:grad:

What? People don't get hair cuts or shave in Tamriel. They open the console and go through the char gen again, and the most they can grow on their faces is 5 o'clock shadow. If they grow more than that their skin color changes.