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group_name=Arkham Medical Society|
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group_abbrev=AMS|
group_abbrev=AMS|
group_membership=all doctors and scientists in the Arkham borough|
group_membership=All doctors and scientists residing in Arkham borough|
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group_goals=The AMS seeks to provide good medical care to all residents of the Arkham Borough, defined as being the suburbs of Old Arkham, New Arkham, Spicer Hills, Ruddlebank, Lockettside, and Foulkes Village.|
group_goals=The AMS seeks to continue its tradition of providing effective psychiatric care to all residents of Arkham Borough, defined as being the suburbs of Old Arkham and New Arkham.|
group_recruit=leave a message on Zmflavius's talk page|
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== Arkham Medical Society Mandate ==
== Arkham Medical Society Mandate ==
The Arkham Medical Society seeks the re-establishment and supply of dependable medical care and good public health, of the body or the mind, to all residents, living or dead, of Arkham Borough, defined as the Malton suburbs of Old Arkham, New Arkham, Spicer Hills, Ruddlebank, Lockettside, and Foulkes Village. Fulfillment of the AMS mission requires that all hospitals and support infrastructure be maintained at a level that ensures a constant supply of medicine and medical equipment to AMS staff, and an unimpeded network of distribution. This being so, the AMS shall endeavor to ensure that:
Prior to the zombie outbreak, the Malton suburbs of Old and New Arkham, sometimes referred to together as 'Arkham Borough' was the primary center for Malton's burgeoning psychiatric research commmunity. The six hospitals of Arkham, [[Emma General Hospital]], [[St. Timothy's Hospital]], [[Zephyrinus General Hospital (New Arkham)|Zephyrinus General Hospital]], [[St. Humphrey's Hospital (Old Arkham)|St. Humphrey's Hospital]], and [[St. Luke's Hospital (Old Arkham)|St. Luke's Hospital]] were the center of this community, providing a high degree of both clinical and research expertise. While these hospitals had all originally been established as sanitariums in the 19th century, the gradual expansion of Malton's borders during the urbanization of the 70s, converting the placid fields and rolling hills of Arkham into commuter suburbs led to an increased demand for medical care that saw the conversion of the 'Arkham Asylums' into full-service hospitals. The Arkham Psychiatric Society, the local professional society of the doctors staffing these hospitals, was thus renamed the 'Arkham Medical Society.'


1) Hospitals remain in good repair to permit production of medical supplies, and lit, to provide adequate centers of healing
Rumors have abounded since they were first established that far from being peaceful sanitariums, the asylums were in fact the site of horrific abuses and terrifying experimentation, including some dabbling in the occult, charges that the Arkham Medical Society has always firmly and categorically denied. The uncovering via a mass escape from St. Luke's Hospital of what could only be described as a 'torture chamber' in in the secure containment facilities of the basement during the 1920s, and the subsequent discovery of similar facilities in other Arkham hospitals' basements, certainly did not help matters, and led to a wholesale process of not entirely successful reform. While the hospitals' modern medical track record was distinguished mainly by its ordinariness, being neither exceptionally good nor bad, current and former patients frequently claimed to be disturbed by supernatural nightmares and frightening visions during their stays, not exactly desirable qualities for a psychiatric hospital. It was this, it is widely believed, in addition to the widespread expansion of demand for more ordinary medical services, which was a major impetus for these hospitals' conversion to full-service medical hospitals and the de-emphasis on the original psychiatric mission. Reform continued apace and by the 1990s, Arkham Asylums were no longer (solely) a byword for how not to provide psychiatric care...[[User:Zann|with a few notable exceptions]].


2) For the speedy dispatch of important notices and public health alerts, and for the maintenance of a stable communication network, an adequate supply of radio transmitters and receivers, spray cans, flare guns, and mobile phones are made available, which requires fire stations and Tompson Mall to remain in good repair.
Zeno Marcus Flavius, on the eve of the outbreak, was the newly elected head of the Arkham Medical Society, a surgeon, not a psychiatrist by training, and committed to a steady program of growth and expansion in the suburbs. The sudden outbreak resulted in a considerable change in his priorities however.
 
3) For these walking dead who wish to return to their previous life, proper treatment requires the usage of revivification syringes, and so, the stable and steady provision of syringes is declared to be as essential as the provision of medical supplies.  For this reason, the AMS also lays claim to all former Necrotech property in the Borough.  However, in keeping with the doctrine patient autonomy, revivification treatment may not be administered to one who does not seek to receive it.  Possessing the skill "brain rot," or a message in the profile to similar effect are sufficient indication of refusal of treatment.  The AMS will administer revivification to the walking dead at any officially designated revivification points within the Borough.  All cemeteries are to be considered revivification points for this purpose.
 
4) Factories and fuel depots (auto repairs) are likewise maintained to permit the provision of generators and fuel to power the above necessities and ease production of the mentioned goods necessary to maintaining dependable care and public health in the Arkham Borough.
 
5) In keeping with the above, all of the above buildings, namely, hospitals, fire stations, Necrotech buildings, factories, fuel depots, and Tompson Mall, are declared property of the AMS for the fulfillment of its mandate, and will be maintained at necessary levels.
 
6) The AMS may maintain and defend other buildings with the territory of the borough as necessary to fulfill its mandate.
 
The AMS does not seek out combat with the dead or the living, and calls no group or moving being enemy, but members shall defend themselves and the borough to such an extent necessary to ensure the fulfillment of the above mandate, and actively oppose those who interfere unduly with it.  The AMS, in seeking amity between living and dead for the fulfillment of its mandate, neither advocates nor opposes the erection of barricades within the Borough, save as determined by the legitimate residents thereof. The AMS does reserve the right to erect barricades in the borough as necessary to preserve its mission.  In practice, the AMS does not foresee any need for the provision of barricades in Arkham Borough save at its declared headquarters, Emma General Hospital, for the reason that the hospital remains the principal repository of the AMS archives, and thus, some degree of defence is necessary to preserve the confidentiality of the AMS's patient information.


==Society Information==
==Society Information==

Revision as of 03:00, 28 May 2020

Arkham Medical Society
Arkham.jpg
Abbreviation: AMS
Group Numbers: All doctors and scientists residing in Arkham borough
Leadership: Zmflavius
Goals: The AMS seeks to continue its tradition of providing effective psychiatric care to all residents of Arkham Borough, defined as being the suburbs of Old Arkham and New Arkham.
Recruitment Policy: leave a message on Zmflavius's talk page
Contact: Zmflavius


Arkham Medical Society Mandate

Prior to the zombie outbreak, the Malton suburbs of Old and New Arkham, sometimes referred to together as 'Arkham Borough' was the primary center for Malton's burgeoning psychiatric research commmunity. The six hospitals of Arkham, Emma General Hospital, St. Timothy's Hospital, Zephyrinus General Hospital, St. Humphrey's Hospital, and St. Luke's Hospital were the center of this community, providing a high degree of both clinical and research expertise. While these hospitals had all originally been established as sanitariums in the 19th century, the gradual expansion of Malton's borders during the urbanization of the 70s, converting the placid fields and rolling hills of Arkham into commuter suburbs led to an increased demand for medical care that saw the conversion of the 'Arkham Asylums' into full-service hospitals. The Arkham Psychiatric Society, the local professional society of the doctors staffing these hospitals, was thus renamed the 'Arkham Medical Society.'

Rumors have abounded since they were first established that far from being peaceful sanitariums, the asylums were in fact the site of horrific abuses and terrifying experimentation, including some dabbling in the occult, charges that the Arkham Medical Society has always firmly and categorically denied. The uncovering via a mass escape from St. Luke's Hospital of what could only be described as a 'torture chamber' in in the secure containment facilities of the basement during the 1920s, and the subsequent discovery of similar facilities in other Arkham hospitals' basements, certainly did not help matters, and led to a wholesale process of not entirely successful reform. While the hospitals' modern medical track record was distinguished mainly by its ordinariness, being neither exceptionally good nor bad, current and former patients frequently claimed to be disturbed by supernatural nightmares and frightening visions during their stays, not exactly desirable qualities for a psychiatric hospital. It was this, it is widely believed, in addition to the widespread expansion of demand for more ordinary medical services, which was a major impetus for these hospitals' conversion to full-service medical hospitals and the de-emphasis on the original psychiatric mission. Reform continued apace and by the 1990s, Arkham Asylums were no longer (solely) a byword for how not to provide psychiatric care...with a few notable exceptions.

Zeno Marcus Flavius, on the eve of the outbreak, was the newly elected head of the Arkham Medical Society, a surgeon, not a psychiatrist by training, and committed to a steady program of growth and expansion in the suburbs. The sudden outbreak resulted in a considerable change in his priorities however.

Society Information

  • Zmflavius is the current chairman of the society and primary contact person.
  • Emma General Hospital in Old Arkham is the headquarters of the AMS. A radio transmitter, powered generator, and suitable level of barricading is to be maintained there at all times.
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