Vulcan medicine

[Vulcan curiosity]

Does anyone know how tg e Vulcans practice medicine? Are they more natural, or ultra high tech?

 

[TheQman]

Some of your best on screen info will probably come from Enterprise. Noteably the episode "Stigma". But there are numerous other references in ENT and several in TOS.

To me, they seem like some of the cultures on earth that use a mix of folk medicine and traditional systems. Vulcans do have traditionally trained medical doctors though that interact with their peers from other worlds, as in Stigma they had representation at the conference.

 

[Timo]

FWIW, in ST5:The Final Frontier, Spock has that vision of his mother (or perhaps some sort of a rental womb?) giving birth to him on a stone slab in a dimly lit cave, without any machines-that-go-PING in evidence...

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Guy Gardener]

Vulcans have this thing where they get better from illnesses if you beat them with vigour.

 

[Mysterion]

I would suspect it is primarily based on traditional methods handed down augmented by scientific and technological advances as they come along. In a very logical fashion, or course.

 

[Kor]

There was that healer in TAS "Yesteryear" who sounded like a decrepit version of Scotty.

Kor

 

[Ronald Held]

There was that healer in TAS "Yesteryear" who sounded like a decrepit version of Scotty.

Kor

Doohan voiced that character? I suppose healers could use traditional techniques while doctors use that plus modern technological methods?

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

They probably focus more on the mystic Vulcan arts than science...

 

[Sophie74656]

I always got the impression that they were more "natural". For example when dealing with the Pon Farr, they say there are 3 ways to deal with it. Not one of those 3 ways is some kind of medication.

 

[Nyotarules]

I always got the impression that they were more "natural". For example when dealing with the Pon Farr, they say there are 3 ways to deal with it. Not one of those 3 ways is some kind of medication.

The 4th way is to pretend its not happening...very logical.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Denial figures heavily in the Vulcan health care system?

 

[Tenacity]

Instead of asking a patient how they feel, the doctor could mind meld and experience the symptoms directly.

 

[Longinus]

Vulcans are highly technologically advanced species. They just prefer to lead pretty ascetic lives by human standards and do not surround themselves by unnecessary gadgets. But they certainly have the amount of medical technology available that they reasonably need.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

Whichever method research has shown is more practical. Which for Vulcans probably isually involves utilizing their telepathic mind-body connection.