Paraveterinarian Diagnostics Team

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The Paraveterinarian Diagnostics Team (PDT) is a specialized elite team in MD, tasked with serving the healthcare needs of anomalies/SCPs. The team examines, diagnoses, and treats anomalies of all kinds and may often perform surgery. Paraveterinarians are also experts at the well-being of anomalies, often being advisors on special containment procedures.

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PDT surgical system operating on an SCP-1000 instance.

Contrary to what the name implies, the Paraveterinarian Diagnostics Team (PDT) deals with all kinds of anomalies — even non-sentient ones. Established in 2015, during the expansion of the Medical Department, PDT is one of the most unique divisions of the SCP Foundation. In 2015, PDT made headlines with great controversy. While many believed it to be the work of the Serpent's Hand, a loud minority of ethics-believing people praised it for making the P in the SCP Foundation motto: "Secure Contain Protect" possible.

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Rescue of an injured instance on the Pacific-28 islands.

Regarded as immensely intensive due to the extreme and extraordinary anatomy of anomalies, the job of PDT requires extensive knowledge and the ability to foresee widely unpredictable things. While many animal-like SCPs and anomalies follow remote patterns of those from the animal kingdom, their abnormal nature makes them defy most concepts. Even with this in mind, organizations like Wilson's Wildlife Solutions and UNGOC have tried to categorize and understand anomalies, which paraveterinarians of PDT use in their assessments. However, many things are unclassifiable due to their atypical nature, and paraveterinarians often have to figure out new clinical methods on the spot.

The cases dealt with vary significantly in difficulty and subject. From non-euclidean internal anatomy, to non-sentient rock beings, there are undoubtedly no predictable cases within PDT. Often, medical and scientific advice is needed, not only from within the SCP Foundation itself but worldwide organizations such as the aforementioned UNGOC and WWS. In many cases, advice from anomalies themselves is needed; because of this, numerous paraveterinarians also possess something anomalous about them.

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Health check-up of blooming SCP-843 instance.

The recruitment and selection of new paraveterinarians is — unlike other divisions — disorganized. The reason for this stems from the lack of courses within paraveterinarian science. Staff in the division often obtain training through related courses, like xenobiology courses, or train at non-domestic institutions. New paraveterinarian fellows or residents are handpicked from applications and recommendations by the senior doctors of PDT. There are no specific requirements for becoming a paraveterinarian; because of this, what exactly is needed to join is uncertain. It usually comes down to what you can bring to the team.

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