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How do your characters feel about seeing doctors or anyone in the medical field?
Kira is your typical overworked leadership person.
She is in constant treatment for her scars from her childhood (physical and psychological) and has a relatively relaxed stance about it, but she also does this thing of pushing herself harder as doctors would say is healthy. Her eating disorder is also a point of friction. Since the meld Kira is a constant visitor in the Sickbay, mostly for monitoring.
Since universal healthcare is an basic sentient right in the Union, it's free & a lot of conditions, we only can treat symptoms nowadays, are just another thing that can be healed if wished for.
Lost limbs or dysfunctional organs can be treated and healed if wished for. With technical implants, cloned replacement or, in very rare cases, with nanites. But nanites are a sort of last resort because you are never sure that they leave your body, that's why there are strict rules for nanite treatment patients and diseased nanite patient's bodies. If used correctly they are harmless for everyone but it's not very easy.
One of the reasons Mondira joined the Alliance, despite being a Rim Wolrdler is that Eodin's healthcare system pretty much equals the today's US healthcare if people like Trump and coconspirators run unchecked.
She cares deeply for her family and their health. The Alliance offers Family members off non Union members treatment with Union standards, for free in Union facilities or payments for outer institutions. Her father has used this service, her little brother rejected it several times and her mother would not even accept it, if her life would depend on it. One does not betray the Rim from her perspective. Not even if it costs ones life. At least she doesn't holds it against her family that they used the alliance offer. Well her family other than Mondira.
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