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You are the ultimate line of defense between the station and permanent death. You oversee your department of potentially functional MDs, make sure people are resurrected or robotized, be certain the virologist doesn't cause an outbreak, and so much more. CMO is an underappreciated position with a wide variety of resources and responsibilities that are entirely essential to a functional station.

==House, MD==

Your first goal is to establish yourself. People forget about you really easily, so if you don't want to get kicked off the bridge as a break-in, make a quick announcement for everyone to turn on their [[suit sensors]] (this will save your EMTs some trouble) and check in with your staff over your medical radio channel. Having full access to genetics and chemistry doesn't hurt either, so try to take it on yourself to produce some [[Styptic Powder]], [[Silver Sulfadiazine]] and [[Synthflesh]] for later use. Don't be afraid to take over for cloning and medical chemistry if you're understaffed.

At some point, you might have your [[Virologist]] ask you for a Virus Crate, since you're his superior and should be informed of the decision. If you're feeling wary about their abilities, ask them to come up with a vaccine for a simple disease first, like the flu. After a little while, he might end up with a beneficial virus that he wants to release. Make sure you tell him to run this by you first, and double-check his work before giving him the green light. If he releases one without telling you, immediately take a blood sample from an infected person and scan it in the pandemic machine in [[Virology]]. If it only has good symptoms, commend them on their work, then yell at them to run it by you first in the future. If the disease has bad symptoms (possibly including superpowers, ask over the command radio if the [[Captain]] wants hulk'd Assistants running around freely), tell the other heads immediately and start passing out the cure to people en masse. If you have a chance to subdue the rogue [[Virologist]] safely, do so and drag them over to the brig, but otherwise just focus on curing people and let security handle things.

Depending on how busy the medbay is, you may have some spare time to dick around with now and then. You can spend this time pretty much however you want, whether you want to brew up some extra healing chems for later, scan people in genetics in case they die and their body can't be recovered, clean up the inevitable pools of blood with the Space Cleaner bottles laying around, scan the [[Chef|Chef's]] food with your PDA's reagent scanner to make sure he isn't poisoning people, or just run a gimmick of your choice.

===Crew Monitoring===

Thanks to recent technological advancements, the heads of staff and [[AI]] are no longer the only ones who can access the crew monitoring system. In addition to the stationary consoles at the bridge and your office, each med-vendor comes stocked with several portable crew monitors that can be used by anyone once grabbed from the vendor by someone with a medical ID. People have their [[Suit_sensors|suit sensors]] randomly set on when spawning, so you can check if they're alive or dead (if Binary Vital Signs are on), what their health levels are (with Vital Trackers on), and even where they are (with Tracking Beacons on). Periodically check these monitors for people to heal or clone and send one of your [[Medical Doctor|doctors]] or [[Paramedic]]<nowiki/>s to them. You may even catch a murder in progress with this! Medbay has plenty of these laying around, so if a crew member like the [[Detective]] asks for one, feel free to oblige them. Remember that there's a vendor in [[Virology]] that only you and the Virologist will ever really use, so feel free to raid it for monitoring consoles and other supplies.

===Outbreak===

This is your medical tool, your lifeline, and in times of war, your weapon.  Overall, it is an instant injector (dealing bursts of 5 units, with a fill limit of 30 units). It starts with 30 units of [[Omnizine]], which heals all four main damage types (brute, burn, oxygen and toxic, though it doesn't purge other chemicals like [[Charcoal]] does, which means they may still need attention). Since brute and burn damage can both effectively be healed with chemicals like [[Styptic Powder]], [[Silver Sulfadiazine]] and [[Synthflesh]], and toxin damage is better dealt with by [[Charcoal]] or [[Calomel]], the Hypospray is best suited for emergencies where you're too busy to dig around for patches and pills. You can empty the Hypospray by simply injecting its contents into something or using a syringe to extract it.

==First against the wall==

[[Medbay]] is about the worst place to be in a mutiny, so chances are your head will be the first to be in disposal. If people are acting strange or starting to get rowdy, arm yourself with ''anything'' as soon as possible, and be prepared to flee from medbay at ''any time''. Your telescopic baton is your obvious first choice for self-defense since you can keep someone stunlocked by repeatedly smacking them, though you can still easily be overpowered by groups, and if someone knocks it out of your hand then the tables are completely turned. Other possible weapons are a fire <strike>extinguisher</strike> axe from the bridge if you're utilitarian, a spray bottle with space lube to buy yourself some time, or a syringe gun if you only need some range.

*Put salbumatol or epinephrine in your hypo. The most dangerous thing on the station is idiots pushing you away from dying guys, thinking it's more important they can make out with their cold, dying lips than you inject them. Inject the wrong guy with the hypo and he will meta and scream CMO IS A CHANG, so just use it for dying dudes.

*Consider moving your Crew Monitoring Console out of your office to allow other doctors access to it.

==Paging Dr. Evil...==

An evil CMO? Don't panic. you're in an interesting position, and some careful maneuvering can get you where you need to be. With care, you can get some very deadly and easily concealable weapons, and get access to almost anywhere if you can convince the HoP you're really a head of staff.

 

===Mister Hyde===

As a changeling CMO, you've got plenty of options. One of your major goals is to capture Genetics so you and your changeling buddies can feast on free corpses! With the right chemicals, your Hypospray or a spray bottle can both be used to knock out victims, and you can capture many humans on the pretense on healing them. Changeling Medical Officers are best played stealthily. Try not to get anyone too suspicious of you, and see if you can ask the HoP for maintenance access.