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From: Robert Watkins <bob@**.NTU.EDU.AU>
Subject: Re: New Rule
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 1995 18:48:21 +0930
Kelly Martin wrote:
>
> the biotech, computer, and electronic skill concentrations seems
> jumbled and arbitrary (perhaps this is because i'm a computer
> programmer with electronics experience, and my mother is a physician).
> medical doctor is a technical degree; the "philosophical" degree
> (which would be a knowledge skill) is a Ph.D. in medicine, which is
> relatively rare. i would classify the skills of a practical (as
> opposed to research) physician as biotech, not as biology.
>

No... The whole focus of the "skill web" is to list PRACTICAL skills. Ones
characters are likely to want, and likely to use. It's not meant to be
comprehensive, either. That's what special skills are for.

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Robert Watkins bob@**.ntu.edu.au
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are around at 9 am, it's because they were up all night.
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