I was thinking about this when I came out of my three day hospital stay cuz I have a very bad record for health. I've already been in the Emergency Room 7 times and add about 10 000 other doctors appointments to that. That got me to thinkin' what is the healthcare like in Dragon City?

Wow, I've only been in the emergency room once. I hope you're feeling better from whatever it was that got you in the hospital. :)

Maybe Dragon City has a free health care system like Canada. After all, their hospitals must be over flowing with broken bones and such from racing accidents. Or maybe since they're so advanced, the hospitals are only for race and other accidents, and they've nearly eliminated all other viral sickness and the like.

I'm kinda wondering if they have abulences.

I'm sure they do. Perhaps two Magma-class dragons or a green and red hyrbid pull along a wagon type thing that serves as an ambulance. I bet they'd have flashy lights on top of it too, like they have on the DCS dragons. :D

Lucky! :) I've been in the emergency room twice in one day! No, they didn't make me better.

I had non-epileptic seizures. I have epilepsy so there was a big deal if I was having a seizure. Mainly, my muscles were shaking uncontrollably for about 3 hours, then stop for 20 minutes, then shake for another 3 hours. They didn't give me any medication for that time. :( Until they gave me one that made it worse! :( They they gave me another med that worked and fell asleep. :faint: It was like I was working out non-stop. I could only control it a litttle bit. My hands had to hold something to stop shaking for a while. So, spent one night in the hospital.

Woke up and was shaking again like insane. It was sorta like exercising for 29 hours non-stop so far! Continue to shake a lot more times. Physically exhausted by now, but can't control shaking yet. :faint: Finally, gave me another shot of the same medication and spent another night in the hospital. My aunt and family gave me a lot of flowers and candy. Wake up in the middle of the night and shake somemore.

Woke up and continued to shake. I was really tired by then. :faint: Then doctor finally told what was wrong and i left shaking.

Bakc in my own bed and i woke up in the middle of the night again and began to shake. Mom was holding my legs still and my dad was holding my one hand still while face twitched like the other times.

So, to sum it all up, i still haven't been able to control shaking and twitching yet. :( Very painful on muscles. :(

Sorry that's waaaay off topic, but just was telling about it.

Oh, and don't even ask me about doctors. I already have my own personal team. I've got ten doctors.

Bummer.


Heh, I've never been in the emergancy room, yet my intials for first and last name are E.R. like emergancy room, but I have broken my right shoulder and left elbow.




Sorry for being off topic.

Personally I've never thought about that. Probably because I've never been in a hospital. (Don't get jealous, the rest of my life sucks.) I've always wondered about veterenary care for the dragons though. They don't seem to get hurt too often in the show but come on, it's got to happen. Quarterhorses have sustained lethal injuries on dirt tracks going 45! These dragons are going like 200 on some kind of crazy 600 foot roller-coaster track of doom death. (I had to change it because I just wrote "of doom" for dramatic effect like I usually do, but there actually is a track of doom that roughly conforms to that description.)

I vote for advanced health care of some sort easily available at least to the racers, because of the injuries that have got to happen at some point. I can imagine Light Blue or Red gear types accelerating healing and sealing wounds, and maybe generally advanced technology. We don't see Artha treating himself much in Damaged Goods, but maybe he put something on his original injury that enabled him to get up.

I'm biased, though, I'd like there to be l33t medical technology for purposes of cheating massive injuries in fanfic. Probably nobody's going to be too horribly injured because of rating issues, and if we see anything of the healthcare system at all it'll just rip off our own with big carrier ambulance dragons, and if we're lucky light blue lab coats rather than white (I wouldn't usually want a white-influenced doctor experimenting on me!).

Since it's a cartoon, the prevailing attitude is that they can't show anyone getting seriously hurt for the most part. Gargoyles is the only non-anime cartoon I've seen that actually showed someone getting shot and bleeding, and even that episode has now been edited down to dilute the scene. (Prior to that, there was just the Bugs Bunny cartoons where characters get shot, but they just brush the "soot" off and are fine.) But let's put that aside for the moment...

In episode 1, Moordryd makes reference to there being draconium in his suit. They never said why there's draconium in his suit, but maybe it acts like super armor and prevents a lot injuries one might normally get given how rough dragon racing is. It wasn't until the last episode that we saw anyone getting seriously hurt.

As for the dragons, I would imagine that their draconium bones are probably near unbreakable. I would also imagine that any animal that can run 200 MPH would be adapted to be able to withstand falls at that speed to a good degree. They never get so much as scrape when the fall and skid along the road, so their skin has got to be incredibly thick and tough. And insulating layer of scales perhaps? And again, it's not until the last episode where we see Beau get hurt enough that he can't just get back up right away.

Another possibility is that they do have super sophisticated med tech that allows them to rapidly heal most common injuries in no time so that these don't require a hospital stay. Remember the movie "Starship Troopers"? Sort of like that.

I think that they possibly do have sicknesses in Dragon city like the dragon pox or something like tht but when it comes to broken bones(I allmost just put Broken Bonds XD Ya know, the eppisode?) I think that for dragons they are virtually unbreakable bones because of draconium and the constant vibration of running. One scientific study with sheep shows that a sheep exposed to the same vibration as running produces for 4 hours a day will triple the density of your bones making them far stronger. This I bet would translate over to dragons even though they are reptilians which have extraordinarly thick bones anyway. If they do have hospitals for dragons though I sure as heck would wnt to be a Dragon vet. SO over all they have hospitals but they arent a way of life as they are for us. Last time I was in a hospital was when I was 9(it was my birthday) and my dad, brother and I rolloed the truck on some black ice.

I envy you all. You don't have to go to the doctors as much as me. I've missed more days of school for doctors appointments than I actually go to the school!

I think that they'd have 2 magma class. They might strain from under the weight, but they're fast.

Two bull class dragons with level 9 thruster gear. That ought to get them there fast enough and NOTHING would stop them.

Well I really should go to the doctors more. I didnt go when I broke my ankle or when I got pneumonia for 13 weeks. By the end of that stretch of pneumonia my teacher was ready to take me to the docters her self and pay for it. I dont trust doctors though. Probably slip some tracking device in ya while your under anesthesia or something. They did that to my grandma and she literally chewed it out of her hand and destroyed it. 10 minutes later the hospital called asking her if she was OK. Coincidence? I think not

They may have to call another ambulance (dragulance?) if people get in the way of those green dragons. :D

Yeah, bull class dragons with rocket booster packs on them sound like they would cause more damage than they would repair.

Would they have anything to curn simple things like sunburn because of the heat in Sun City?

Cuz I got an intense sunburn that's peeling and it's gross! :(

And there'd also be stuff like heart attacks and other stuff like that. Would they have the same type of technology as us?

I wonder if they have dragon-sized E. Rooms? They should have, as dragons can get injured too.

Speaking of ambulance, it should be easier for the ambulance to rush to the hospital. I mean, how hard can it be for dragons to move aside? Unless, of course, the riders are selfish.

yeah! that or a team of magma class dragons!