Medic

	The witcher could already smell the foul, nauseating stench of rot from a distance, so he wasn't surprised to see a medic in the vestibule. The profession was unmistakably revealed by the leather hauberk with a long bird-like beak and glass-covered eyeholes.
- Geralt's impression of a doctor, Crossroads of Ravens

A medic is a general term for a person involved in medicine. On the Continent, not all of them study at academies or universities, there are also a good number of mages, druids, and priests talented in this area (especially priestesses of Melitele). The Great Temple of Melitele, formerly in Kaedwenian Elsborg, then moved to Ellander, had a particularly good reputation for medically educated nurses and priestesses.

In the countryside, most of the folk do not trust educated doctors. Instead, they seek medical advice at local quacks, charlatans, gammers, and pellars. For their part, the professional physicians who have pursued their studies at institutions such as the Faculty of Medicine and Herbology at the Oxenfurt Academy, tend to have methodological disputes with druidic healers. The druids would swear by by their antiquated — and often correct — approaches while doctors tend to consider them backward.

Educated non-magic medics are usually called either a physician, a barber-surgeon or a doctor. Their magically gifted counterparts tend to go by a healer. Doctors are often calculating people who are trained in field surgery allowing them to treat wounds with double the efficiency or cause grievous wounds with their anatomical knowledge if a need arises.

While not caregivers themselves, witchers often gain anatomical knowledge and make use of technical terminology. As a young adept, Geralt of Rivia had been first tutored in the aforementioned Temple of Melitele and then received further instructions from the veteran witcher Preston Holt. Among other things, Holt taught Geralt that although elven males and most hominids lacked laryngeal prominence, their human, dwarven and gnomish counterparts did possess it, making it one of their weak spots. This was because, if hit strongly enough, it could lead to internal bleeding and quick suffocation.

Notable medics

Learned doctors

• Milo "Rusty" Vanderbeck
• Assumpta of Rivia
• Nenneke
• Iola the Second
• Ohnesorg
• Shani
• Messer Luppi
• Vysogota of Corvo
• Annegina of Maribor
• Bertrand Wirtz
• Joachim von Gratz
• Hubert Rejk

Mage-healers

• Marti Södergren
• Triss Merigold
• Vrai Natteravn
• Visenna
• Eberhartt of Rivia

Apothecaries

• Vorsterkranz
• Laurelnose
• Myron
• Blindeye Apothecary

Notes

• In The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Geralt can meet two former medics: Rupert Brandhuber and Gridley.
• In The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, aside from the named characters there are three notable medics.
  • Medic at Oxenfurt Morgue
  • Medic at Novigrad Docks
  • Medic at Tourney Grounds

Gallery

The Witcher 3 concept art

Gwent card art

Vicovaro medic

Novigrad medic

See also

• Gwent medic cards