I have a POV character who is a (magic) healer so he's able to observe processes and uses his medical knowledge to "fix" people. e.g. someone has sore muscles for overuse, so he would repair the "frayed threads" of the muscle fiber.
I'd like to think that I have a pretty decent grasp on anatomy and physiology, but it's when stuff goes bad, and how, that I'm struggling. Stuff like on the CDC's website for laypeople doesn't give me enough information and most Wikipedia pages on this stuff requires me to read 10 other articles to figure it out (ditto most academic articles, assuming I'm even able to gain access to them). An example from today was a patient dying of 3rd/4th degree burns. I know what that'll look like, that the nerves are probably destroyed, and with large swaths of unbroken skin there's issues with staying hydrated and keeping out pathogens. I didn't know what, exactly, would "feel"/be going wrong to cause death, so I went looking. I found a study stating that most of the confirmed causes of death for pediatric burn patients was sepsis, and the info on it is either Incredibly Vague (this is what it is, here are some symptoms, take some antibiotics) or Incredibly Technical (cytokine storms, a huge list of things inflammation can do). The only thing I was really able to get out of it was hypotension, and I had already assumed that was a thing in the first draft since that's going to happen, anyways, if you're on death's door (I also had pulmonary edema which I don't think is right since there's probably not enough body fluid left to have anything to edema, but I can't actually find an answer to that).
Is there something like 101/102-level resource for pathophysiology somewhere out there? I'd rather not have to buy a medical textbook just for research or find someone to ask these questions to (don't have any friends in any sort of medical field or any sort of biology, sadly) since it can be A Lot and bugging them on every question I might have would be tiring for everyone involved.
I'd like to think that I have a pretty decent grasp on anatomy and physiology, but it's when stuff goes bad, and how, that I'm struggling. Stuff like on the CDC's website for laypeople doesn't give me enough information and most Wikipedia pages on this stuff requires me to read 10 other articles to figure it out (ditto most academic articles, assuming I'm even able to gain access to them). An example from today was a patient dying of 3rd/4th degree burns. I know what that'll look like, that the nerves are probably destroyed, and with large swaths of unbroken skin there's issues with staying hydrated and keeping out pathogens. I didn't know what, exactly, would "feel"/be going wrong to cause death, so I went looking. I found a study stating that most of the confirmed causes of death for pediatric burn patients was sepsis, and the info on it is either Incredibly Vague (this is what it is, here are some symptoms, take some antibiotics) or Incredibly Technical (cytokine storms, a huge list of things inflammation can do). The only thing I was really able to get out of it was hypotension, and I had already assumed that was a thing in the first draft since that's going to happen, anyways, if you're on death's door (I also had pulmonary edema which I don't think is right since there's probably not enough body fluid left to have anything to edema, but I can't actually find an answer to that).
Is there something like 101/102-level resource for pathophysiology somewhere out there? I'd rather not have to buy a medical textbook just for research or find someone to ask these questions to (don't have any friends in any sort of medical field or any sort of biology, sadly) since it can be A Lot and bugging them on every question I might have would be tiring for everyone involved.