Survival question

[dinosaur]

Who cares.  I’m going to die anyway.

[ABWorsham4]

@dinosaur:

Who cares.  I’m going to die anyway.

Spoken like a true warrior.

[losttribe04]

I had to go with witch doctor.  I read an article about a year ago discussing how pharmaceutical companies would prefer to go with roots and leaves from natural ingredients; however, what stops them is that they can’t put a patent on plants only manmade synthetic products that may mimic the same results.

I know this may be off topic but as an eagle scout (from Northern California) I found that wherever there is a plant that causes harm like poison oak for example there is another plant nearby that can counter act those effects.  In this case the little berries from a Manzanita bush.

The witch doctor being local would know things like this.  A good med student I would trust to assist a seasoned Basic EMT.

LT

[cystic crypt]

as a former medical student, now a physician as mentioned on another thread, i picked the “witch doctor”.
Both would suck at treating most deathly illnesses - pneumonia, heart attack, pulmonary embolism, malaria, gushing hemorrhage etc.  Still, the “local witch doctor” would know what the most common maladies local to the locale might be, and the best treatment for them.  The medical student . . . depending on what his/her background was (assuming basic science degree) would likely be useless.  Now if you had a local hospital with nursing and medicines, the med student might barely edge out the local guy, i’m thinking.

[TG Moses VI]

LT04,

You are my new hero.  :-D

[Panzer Leader]

I agree with LT04 as well. You gotta go with the local help. The med student is probably not that adept any way, based upon what I have seen at our hospitals.
Good call LT04. 8-)

[ABWorsham4]

Flashback to 2009.

[amanntai]

1. Why not both?

2. What if the 2nd Year Medical student is native to the island? There are medical schools on islands!

3. What if the Medical Student can take you to the nearest Hospital on the island, and you can be treated by people who graduated medical school?

[CWO Marc]

The phrase “lost on an island” suggests (at least to me) the image of a relatively small and isolated island somewhere in the tropics, with a very small population and no modern technology – an image reinforced by the reference to the island having a local witch doctor.  Let’s say, something along the lines of Skull Island in King Kong.  What I’m having trouble understanding is: why would there be a second-year medical student on such an island?  Did he get shipwrecked too (which is how I’m assuming that I got lost on the island in the first place)?

On the other hand, if we’re talking about a large island the size of, let’s say, Java, with a population of 143 million people, and that I’m lost on it simply because the GPS on my rented car broke down, and that there are enough witch doctors and second-year medical students among its inhabitants to make it plausible that I’d run into both types of persons simultaneously, my guess is that this would only be likely to occur close enough to a developed area that I’d simply choose to ask these fellows for directions to the nearest medical clinic or hospital.

[frimmel]

@ABWorsham:

Flashback to 2009.

I knew that thread necro over in the D-Day forum was trouble.  :lol:

[variance]

Witch doctor probably knows something.

[Gargantua]

I would eat the witch doctor, and lay with the virgin 2nd year med student.

Just to make sure my bases were covered.

[CWO Marc]

@Gargantua:

and lay with the virgin 2nd year med student. Just to make sure my bases were covered.

While we’re on the topic of covering all one’s bases, would you check first on what the student’s gender was?
:lol:

[General 6 Stars]

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[axis_roll]

@Gargantua:

I would eat the witch doctor, and lay with the virgin 2nd year med student.

Just to make sure my bases were covered.

yep. it’s all about the BASE