(10-01-2015, 06:46 PM)Sounsyy Wrote: So, as a Paramedic IRL, I naturally tend to lean towards realistic injury and disease patterns. That's just something I feel strongly for in my own RP. But in the medical world, we tend to group the causation of emergencies into one of two categories: Medical and Trauma. (That's not to say that a Medical can't lead to a Trauma or a Trauma can't lead to Medical.)
My Healing Headcanon is that healing magicks like cure, physick, etc treat traumatic injuries. Physical hurts like open wounds, broken bones, a sword to the gut, etc. While spells such as Esuna/Leeches treat Medical disease process, like flu, pox, crotchrot, etc. Which seems to be backed up by the SCH quest after you get Leeches:
Rukusa Farusa Wrote:I am told you possess magicks which can cleanse the body of toxins, impurities, and maladies.
But cure and esuna can't be the end-all-be-all remedy to everything in Eorzea, otherwise there wouldn't be a hospital in Ul'dah, or the Warmwine Sanatorium that treats wounded veterans, or there wouldn't be people in Ishgard and Revenant's Toll dying of pox constantly.
So I like to play healing magic as emergency treatment that stabilizes the patient and prevents death. So if someone takes a sword to the gut in the Grindstone, healing magic seals the wound and stops the bleeding. Perhaps the wound can still get infected, it's likely still sore, and not fully healed in the least. But the immediate danger to life has been taken care of. Continued exertion might reopen that wound later or it may get infected. It's like "First-line" treatment. Obviously it has to be followed up with something. More magical healing or traditional medicines (of which there's lots of info about in BTN's item descriptions).
As far as scarring goes, I tend to base that upon the severity of the injury. Sounsyy took a spear through her shoulder in an early Grindstone. It didn't come out smoothly and healing magicks were attempted before its proper removal. I decided that this would leave a scar.
Quoting Sounsy as this is pretty much spot-on with how I roleplay my own receiving and recovery from wounds, and how--as an IC healer--I explain the effects of my magics, herbs, etc.
When Reima uses "Cure" in a pinch, I will emote or send a Tell to the patient describing the way the spell itself feels as it takes, that bleeding is slowing, the pain is a bit numbed, and that the body's natural mending process is accelerated, but that they will need further treatment and to refrain from aggravating the injury. Grindstone competitors and the like are free to do with that as they will, of course, since there is a huge event trying to proceed. As it was said above, if healing magic (or any other healing method) was the lickety-split end-all-be-all, then life in Eorzea would be a lot different.
"Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?'
                                -George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
