You've been around medical facilities most of your life, either due to a family member being a doctor or because you were raised near a medical center of some sort. As a result, you've picked up some basic familiarity with medical procedures and terminology.
You're not a trained medical professional by any means, but you know enough to tell the difference between a bruise and something more serious. Maybe you helped out around a clinic as a kid, or you've just absorbed some medical knowledge from being around it so much.
Choose one of the following skill boons.
An advanced medical scanner that can identify diseases, toxins, and viral infections. It starts with basic diagnostic capabilities but can be upgraded to detect rare conditions and suggest treatment protocols.
A comprehensive medical kit containing medications, surgical tools, and diagnostic equipment. Far more advanced than a field medic's kit, this contains specialized equipment for treating complex conditions.
A wearable device that monitors patient vital signs and can interface with medical systems. Over time, it can be upgraded to provide predictive health analysis and early warning systems.
The first time you saw real arterial bleeding was on a transport that hit debris near the Tethys relay. The medic on board was one of the casualties. You were sixteen. You applied pressure, found the clamp, sealed the vessel, and didn't throw up until the patient was stable.
People in pain say terrible things. The patient in Bay 3 told you he hoped your family died in a hull breach while you were removing shrapnel from his thigh. You finished the extraction, dressed the wound, handed him water, and said "I'll check on you in an hour." He apologised three days later. Most of them do.
The rash on the dock worker's arm looked like contact dermatitis. But the distribution pattern was wrong; too symmetrical. You ordered a blood panel over his objections, found systemic heavy-metal poisoning, and caught it six weeks before organ failure. The trick isn't knowing what something is. It's knowing what it isn't.
Your mother kept her medical references on the household terminal; not the approved ones, the deep databases. You read them the way other kids read adventure stories. Ask you about a rare condition and you'll give you the name, the mechanism, and the three drugs that treat it, in order of efficacy.