Intergalactic Summit

*Annoyingly high pitch whining* But he started it!

This conversation shouldn't even have started if this line was properly read...

Honestly this just seems like some lame attempt to seek relevance because something having to do with ones field is the topic of discussion.

Sadly it could have been done in an entirely more productive way, but I guess sometimes people prefer a dramatic statement over a sensible one.

Oh well.

The impoverished pharmaceutical and medical technologies companies of the world need help making ends meet too.

I very much like this idea.

The fact that you think "Having something to say about it" is what just happened here is mildly depressing.

Whats really depressing about this however is that a trained doctor such as yourself could have been a really insightful resource for this (maybe you still are?) But given how rudely you decided to respond, I wouldn't be surprised if anyone from the Assembly skipped out on the opportunity for a meeting with you.

Excuse me, but what the frell is this dren?

Minmatar might not be leaders in medicine but they're also not living several thousands of years in the past either. These "some places" certainly can and probably exist, but they must be in the fringest of the fringe worlds or otherwise almost without any other basic necessities as well. My home planet in Molden Heath - which by many standards is regarded as a grossly underdeveloped region - had relatively highly advanced hospitals and medical centers. Sure, delivery of the most advanced technology wasn't always guaranteed and quality of equipment started to decline the further you got from the capitol, but I assure you nobody relied on medicinal herbs and certainly not "chanting to spirits" for actual medicine.

All modern medicinal technologies were available (including transcranial microcontrollers), but due to remoteness they were at a relative premium and reserved only for emergencies and for those in otherwise greatest need.
If you've ever noticed the scar on my face and wondered why it is there, that's the cause - it was stitched up and the first antibiotic I received didn't completely do its job due to resistant bacteria, so the wound healed slowly enough to cause a noticeable scar. They could have perhaps used more advanced technology for more rapid and effective healing, but as I wasn't in danger of dying from it, they didn't.

So if this planet on the border of a low-security system had access to this level of medicinal technology, admittedly in limited quantities, then I refuse to believe the situation is any worse anywhere else in high-security space.


So called low sec frontier worlds and frontier medicine are a different thing entirely, so apologies if that is what you were discussing - but the way you addressed Ameriya made me think you equated this to all of Minmatar space.

What a ****** excuse for a ****** way to behave. Moving on.



I can sympathize with the concern of VA delegates who wish to improve the standard of living for Delta cities in the Federation. I am sure I-RED can provide high-grade TCMC's for medical uses in bulk at a reduced cost in an effort to support this endeavor.

Don't know what he's playing at, but I think he just likes to be that rugged underdog or something. I don't recognize any of his claims from my own time among the Tribes.

I'm not saying that our medical facilities are the absolute worst, I'm saying that they are worse than the Federation and many of the things common there is uncommon in Minmatar space, and that the availability of some of the better facilities isn't ubiquitous even in core worlds.

For example, it is far more common for our surgeons to operate by hand than use any kind of high tech devices.

Also note that I mention that the more dubious remedies are practiced in 'some places', not 'majority of the place'.

And remember that the Republic's economy is *recovering* but isn't 'prosperous' at this point of time, so she isn't importing vast numbers of auto-surgeons or nano-scrubbers. What is imported isn't evenly distributed, even in the core worlds. Also, remember that the Republic, or rather, the Minmatar as a people still have this mentality of 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it', hence the surgery-by-hand rather than the use of said auto-surgeons. The Republic medical professionals are still capable of treating the Minmatar ill, but they tend to do so with more antiquated means, at least by Federation standards. Adequate, true, just not as impressive as what the Feds are capable of. At least we have AIMEDs everywhere in the core worlds and in half the border world clinics I had visited (being produced within Republic borders and the generous subsidies applied on these AIMEDs had much to do with it).

Also, things had changed since that news with the TCMC. After the Amarr showed us what they can do with the TCMCs, opinions had gone south. TCMC now has a stigma attached to it. It's available, likely used as the absolute last resort in some places, but the opinions on the chips are currently quite low.

I also recall seeing all those high-grade mechanical prosthetics, prosthetic control chips, faculty enhancer chips and many of our pharmaceutical products carrying the Eifyr and Co. name. I haven't yet seen a nanomedical patch that isn't imported from beyond Republic borders.

Remove the last point from the activity list, and I am sure many would attend, not only talk about realization of this idea.