I have so many questions…

1. Are medical practitioners/surgeons not a thing in this world?

2. Where would they have taken Iris to treat her injuries if Sarasa hadn’t happened to set up shop in the village?

3. Is there anything alchemy can’t do? ^^;

4. (After finishing the episode) Is there anything Sarasa can’t do? She’s like a doctor, alchemist, and high-ranking adventurer all rolled into one. xD

2.Guess, she would die

that explains why the towns people ask the carpenter to fix her store as top priority, of course they need her, she like a doctor and her store is like a clinic/hospital and of course nothing is free just like in real life doctors will charge you for their services and medicines, that's why is funny to see politicians saying they will give "free healthcare" to everyone if you vote for them, but in the end you still pay either with your taxes or if you paid your medical bill

i mean, id pay the taxes for "free healthcare" any day. hospital literally put a price tag on each of my fingers, totaling out at 200k. they want my tax money they can have it if it means I'm guaranteed to keep my hand cause US insurance said my fingers "weren't essential to life, and therefore not covered"...Its been 2 years and i'm still paying that off. the taxes are definitely way less

yeah "free healthcare" only works for public hospitals or clinics (controlled by the government) if there is a private clinic or hospital then there's nothing you can do since it's a private business, another solution for that will be traveling to another country where medical treatment is wayy cheaper than in the US , I know a guy he needed a surgery for the eyes (he told me about the cost but now I can't remember) , if he ddn't he will never be able to see again so he went to Colombia where the surgery was wayy cheaper and when he came back, I asked him about it he said his medical bill in Colombia was like $5000 (including surgery, medicine etc) and that's a nice choice instead spending like more than 200k

ya but the free healthcare is not like what people think it is. its that abalot minable an there a long waiting list for anything. an most come to the us for surgery higher grade of the work an better then the wait. an he was very lucky that the treatment in colombia worked that well an nothing els happened.

Thats actually not true at all. In the US, theres longer lines, this is due to on-hold payment transactions and parts held and auctioned to the highest bidder. Thats right, the cadaver labs that save your organs after death, auction to the highest bidder, as they are also privately owned.
The US has actually fallen to 30th place in medical care since the pandemic, this was due to no government mandate to force everyone to get a vaccine. But before this US was rated 10th in health services due to the VA, private sale of treatment, and how simple medication costs 300% more than 99% of the rest of the world.
Most SA, EU, Asian, and some african countries have medical tech and practices just as good as the US, Columbia is a modern 1st world country with sky scrapers, highways, modern manufacturing, and so forth. Why would it not have good medical?

If anything, if the US switched over to a social medical system like the rest of the world, the US would save over $200B and its GDP would increase by 10%.

There is the problem that the USA also shoulders the worlds burdens on R&D along with supplies. Insurance in the USA is a double dip on The doctors and the patients and is a major effing issue but we need to stop funding the other countries "Free Healthcare" as well.

If you roll the clocks back before Insurance was a thing Every procedure was affordable world wide but Doctors had very poor reputations and were hyper competitive with each other. Insurance came in with the "This doctor is good and hasnt been charged with malpractice" Schtick by taking the brunt of the lawsuits for the doctors they supported.

It slowly made Hospitals and doctor gain reputation from that as hush money stopped things from spreading. Now though that business still exists but it has become an extortion ring Government Mandated that all doctors needs to have insurance no matter what. And more recently all Patients need to have Insurance this allows the Insurance to set prices at every level and that includes Pharmaceuticals This caused the 20 year Copyright law to have true meaning as it became a race to find a medicine they can endlessly tweak to retain ownership of it Insurance then get FDA to reject the old formula as unsafe and promotes the new formula stopping a generic from being made.

I hate Insurance and i hate anyone that defends the practice. Its everywhere you can see it happening in Cars right now and i have seen some fucking scams with "computer insurance" being shoved to retailers lately. Its a cancer.

Nope, US doesnt. Companies do. And thats the difference. US has the least weight

Its not so much the insurance thats the problem. Its the lack of consumer protection and lawsuits. Overseas if you lose a hand theres a max amount the doctor will have to compensate you for while here in the US they could end up paying millions. Which means the risk for bankruptcy for the doctor is high for every procedure they do here, while overseas that will never happen.

Plus everyone make it out like free healthcare systems are just rainbows and butterflies. I lived in the EU for a decade and had a few instances of having to go to the hospital over there. One time I broke a rib and needed an xray for work to show them that i couldn't do certain physical activities for a few months and the hospital refused to do an xray. Sure, I get that if you fracture a rib they don't do shit anyways, but here in the US they would 100% xray. Why? because you might have chipped the bone and that chip is pushing on a vein or organ or something and you wouldn't find out about it until it becomes a major issue. Same thing when I broke my foot. It was a major hassle getting them to do anything because "eh you'll be fine, just stay off your feet as much as possible for a year". That isn't feasible...

Dude talked about his fingers costing a lot... thats exactly why he would have a bigger issue elsewhere. If he was lucky he'd just have to wait a few years for treatment and then they'd do the bare minimum.

I'd never say that the US is better for medical care, but I sure wouldn't say that its better "free" either. If anything I'd suggest the combo deal. Go to someplace like Singapore and pay for outstanding service while not having to pay for American legal/insurance fees which makes everything cost about 80-90% more.

No it wouldn't! Demand is way outstripping supply. They've been hiding the losses from your socialism catastrophe since inception. The suicide jabs they are slinging now are to try an pay for it while reducing population. If your countries debt is greater than 20% of GDP you are a slave!

Correct. Thats why the US is so much in slave to itself its not funny. 90% of its debt is to its own citizens.

No, youre completely wrong about your assessment of the US healthcare system. There arent lines unless you go emergency room which you wouldnt for a surgical procedure to a preexisting condition. And in an emergency you jump to the front of the line...

There are lines! Almost at 80% utilization!! Problems!!
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I'm not gonna be a slave the rest of my life to keep you morons alive!

That's the price that gets billed to the insurance company before you pay the co-pay and everything is negotiated down. I have had co-workers that have gotten Lasik surgery in Columbia (they were also native Columbians) and paid a few thousand for it cause they also said it was cheaper than getting it done here in the US. (don't know why, we had the same insurance and it was covered) but the surgery wasn't done properly and both co-worked ended up needed the surgery redone a few years later anyway to fix the mistakes.....so you get what you pay for.

You either gonna pay for the welfare or warfare for US citizens.

Insurance in US is so f**ked. I can't even find out how much a procedure will actually cost me until I get the bill.

Insurance is the reason why your medical bills are fucked up. If
insurance pays whatever the hospital wanted then the hospital can charge whatever it wants. And because hospital can charge whatever it wants the new whatever becomes the norm and people who are not insured obviously can not pay it. Thus these people also have to get insured which means that hospitals have no competition whatsoever and can continue this downwards spiral.

Eventually hospitals set up prices for certain operations so high that insurance companies start to limit their coverage or % of payment which leads to high insurance cost and bad coverage. Nice. Literally the only thing that you can do at this point is completely restart the system (which is next to impossible because of the money involved) or pass laws that limit the prices set by hospitals and insurance companies.

With "free" healthcare the government regulates this price hike by using tax revenue to make a budget so the prices set by the hospital stay within that budget. Private sectors essentially compete against this budget (wait vs cost) so even their prices stay relatively controlled, unless you live in a neighborhood of sickly impatient billionaires.

It's partly insurance, but also partly ignorance. People who don't know anything about health will figure that higher price = better care, when really most medical procedures are scams.

For instance, root canals are completely unnecessary. Cavities are just a sign you need to fix your diet (eat more rare/raw grass-fed beef, wild caught fish, eggs, bone broth, raw milk, butter, animal fat, raw and cooked vegetables, etc. ~~ cut out sugar, flour, coffee, and tea). Tooth infections can be cured with colloidal silver (apply every 15 mins for a day or two). And fillings can be done at home with materials you can buy online (Admira Fusion x-tra is the filling material I use). It requires some practice, but no drilling is necessary.

Dumbest comment of the year award. The tax rate in countries where there is "free healthcare" is over 50% on incomes as low as $45,000 annually. I'm ok with my crap insurance and being able to keep at least 70% of my income. I'm glad I don't need to be put on a waiting list like some of my friends that live in Canada that have had to wait months for screening tests and bloodwork...Sorry about your hand and fingers, but it sounds like you didn't have insurance and had to deal with direct negotiations with the hospital which is pretty rough but from what I know about a friend I have that doesn't have insurance, they still can't refuse to treat you for anything and he got a pacemaker and has had heart surgery as well.

"Free" healthcare is why Canada is murdering its own citizens with MAID because it's more economically convenient to off liabilities than it is to treat them.
3-5% of Canadian deaths are now MAID, where vulnerable people are pressured by the state to give up and die.

You assume the free healthcare system would warrant your fingers essential to your livelihood, which they commonly dont... so you're really talking out of your rear end here.

3. She can't bring back her dead parents.

🤣🤣🤣 Savage.

Sorry Bruce a.k.a. Batman!

*Now*
But you never know what you can actually do with kenja no ishi.

That would be tragedy like in FMA.

Well magic exist here, so we wouldn't know.

New title of the show should be Full Moe Alchemist: Sisterhood
Elric Brothers sarasa sisters 🤌 💰💅

Good one man, Good one.👏👏👏

1. Apparently not, and if so, VERY FEW. Well, as far as legit doctors and surgeons go, given the show's fantasy setting.

2. I think you know the answer.

3. It's the solution to ALL everyday issues! XD

Moving plot along. Without making much sense.

3 : Alchemy (real-world version) has its limitations. Scientists have actually managed to successfully transmute Lead (Pb [Atomic-Number : 82]) into Gold (au [Atomic-Number : 79]), but, the resources/energy necessary to accomplish this turns out to be far more costly than the actual value of the gold that results (i.e. : turning Lead into Gold won't make anybody rich on Earth unless they some-how find a way to access/convert Zero-Point-Energy into the equivalent of what is often seen as and/or termed/called «Magic» from some Animé-Isekai)...

Bonus-Info : The term «Quick-Silver» was a historic Alchemic-Term... said substance is now known today as Mercury (but, back then, they really did think it was a good/fun idea to play around with it and, even, absorb it into the body for attempts at transmutation of the human-body into something special/magical [although in reality it is actually one of the most toxic/deadly substances a human-body can be exposed to which is why you are advised to wear gloves when handling fluorescent-light-bulbs due to their mercury content]).

quite the answer for an anime website xD taught me something new.

1. In a world where potion and magic exist? Nah. There're priest, alchemist, and healer though.
2. Church, I guess, since there're priest, and most light magic are healing type according to most anime. Most church will expand to even a far place, so there would be atleast one which cover couple nearby villages.
3. In Sarasa's universe? Maybe not. People comparing it to Fullmetal Alchemist but it different universe, MAGIC EXIST here FFS.. In Sarasa's universe alchemist seems to be the number 1 job as just the book itself cost that much. And knowing what Sarasa can do, we could only imagine how strong her teacher is.
4. I think she can almost do everything as she's good with magic. Do you notice that Sarasa always glow when she fight? Do you see anyone else glow? Most people don't imbue magic to their body even the adventurer one, and yet she can do it well and even after making all those potions. Which only means she has quite a lot of mana?! in her.

The author of this show didn't think out the economics of the world very much. For instance, market prices would be hammered if people could teleport stuff from far away, because corporations (owned by the nobility) would streamline everything. Also, why didn't the girl bring a bed in her magic bag? And don't tell me there's no such thing as "copy" spells, so books shouldn't be so expensive either. Especially since she is supposed to be some kind of scholarship student.

1. Teleport. Maybe it's needs maintenance, which means it could be costly as Alchemist pricing is quite hefty even just the ingredients. And maybe not a lot of people can setup teleport rune. Means only corporation would be able to afford it. And we don't know whether everyone able to use magic or not yet.
2. Magic bag. I forgot when she use magic bag, but maybe even if it can store so much there's a limit to how big it can pass through the entrance??
3. Copy spell. In a world where Alchemist is a high rank job not Sorcerer, Magician nor Witch, I guess there's some kind of limitation to it. In other anime copying stuff (Shirou from Fate) need to be precise so it might be hard to actually copy the actual content of the book apart from just the material it's made and in the anime the protagonist can make new magic because he was a programmer, forgot the name, you need to analyst the rune needed to make it which would make it to be too complicated as it need not just to copy the volume, size, how many pages, or materials its made, but also the actual content each page as I mentioned earlier.
Although there might be someone who already done it in the last chapter of the book, but most people unable decipher it as it just too hard it seems, even Sarasa's teacher didn't seems to actually master everything in that chapter.

1. probably. but in a world where a healing potion can cure anything. a doctor might be considered as "just a first aid"

2. next town would be a few days away. so, she's probably be dead.

3. as long as you have the right materials, there is none. specially if you have a philosopher's stone. which is already basically a cheat item.

4. hope we found out in the next episodes. as we already know, she only just mastered the basic 3 books. there's still higher level alchemy...

the fact that specialization in a field of study makes her very strong in combat also is as to say it doesnt matter that you specialize in a field. the idea basically means no other job is worth a shit compared to alchemy it seems.... so why are they all not trying desperately to be alchemists....

5. Do alchemist not know how to make explosive traps? Like, isn't gunpowder the MAIN thing alchemists do?

To answer (4) as to if there's anything she can't do, I'd say "Not go broke" at the rate she's bleeding money LOL

Yeah, she only had a single day of sword practice, so I wasn't expecting her to be stronger than everyone else that ventures out for a living. Maybe it's explained by her enormous amount of magic power?

she learned sword practice only for a single day from her master, but she received combat training while she's in the academy....she said that when trying to refuse her master on learning sword practice....i guess they taught the students on how to wrestle the monsters without damaging them cuz they need the materials to be in perfect shape lol...

Ah, that makes a lot more sense. Thanks!

There's actually a good few things that had their explanations skimmed over in the anime so far (and I doubt they will be explained for the sake of saving on time and putting in more content).

One of the reasons why the rate of students graduating is only 1/10 (or less) from the alchemy school that Sarasa went to is that there are a lot of auxiliary/supporting subjects/jobs that all alchemists have to learn in order to graduate. I don't remember the whole list but basic glassmaking, a few other types of craftmanships, and various forms of fighting (against monsters raw materials) are among the bare minimum on top of learning about plants, alchemy itself, and whatnot.
Passing the bare minimum is one thing but Sarasa graduated at the top of her batch as a scholarship student which means she needed to more than master the basics for all related auxiliary jobs AND be really good at things directly related to alchemy to keep her spot within the top 5. If not, she'd have to pay an expensive tuition that she can't afford or quit alchemy altogether.

And she's a student of one of the most revered alchemists so..... I just wonder why teacher didn't already have an army of students but Sarasa only...

her master rarely at her shop tho...i guess she's just busy

1. Pre-modern medicine (what am I saying? even today's medicine) would be no competition to the alchemy we've seen here, so it might never develop. If this place was only without an alchemist for a time because it's such a backwater, maybe there really are no medics -- makes sense in a magical world.

1 Medial practitioners probably do exist, but mostly in big cities.

2 She'd be dead my dude.

3 Alchemy is the anime Mcguffin and can solve any issue. it's essentially a catch-all term to use when the issue can't be solved with magic.

4 She was trained by some mad crazy OP individual after all, this is all within expectation.

I had even more questions.
- If the bell lane grizzlies are native to the area… why tf does not a single person know much about them in the village? They don’t even know how to fight them or even identify signs of problems. Do the villages just get steamrolled by grizzlies randomly? Cause if she wasn’t there the whole village would probably be gone
- How much training did she do? She’s clearly way above any person including ones that seem adept at combat like Iris. Is she just incredibly OP simply because she trained with her master? Because if that’s the case how many people in the capital are even as strong as her or her master? And like before, there isn’t anyone in the village that trains to repel monster attacks? They don’t even have to be good, but at least a bare bones village guard should be there at least? Or some amount of people able to defend the village. You just have all the women out banging on pots and pans when the grizzlies come you really wonder what tf is going on

But yea, this makes no sense. I mean, I guess doctors have to be a thing considering I believe she said that “sometimes” alchemists need to save lives. Or was she referring to the fact that only sometimes people show up with burns, poison, and a detached arm?

And forget the Iris, what tf was the village gonna do if someone got hurt? Just figure something out without an alchemist? It seems like the village doctor practically is the alchemist.

Something tells me that there are doctors but they’re probably significantly cheaper to go to and it’s likely they buy stuff from alchemists. I see an argument that alchemists make potions but the doctors usually diagnose? It’s ambiguous as hell though because she’s a completely special case - her master is a “master” alchemist and apparently very well known.

But I wouldn’t be surprised if there were no surgeons or doctors. The potions/stuff that alchemists make seem incredibly good at curing just about any ailment except blood loss.
- can reattach limbs, meaning can reattach nerves, instantly heal bone, reattach all sorts of tissue, and instantly stop bleeding, This scenario just about covers most surgical issues.
- can instantly heal burns
- antidotes to poisons