Quote Originally Posted by Lucky27 View Post
"Hey doc, us soldiers are all good now. Here's a rifle, catch! Omg shoot man
Except that's pretty much how it is?
Field docs are trained to protect themselves and their patients, since, you know, many people crap on you being injured, they'll just shoot you while you are down, one more easy kill that will most definitely be unable to return to battle (not every injury that needs treatment will incapacitate you for the rest of the war after all); so there needs someone there who can protect the injured until help arrives, and if there's a medic... They also won't stop at shooting, or at least capturing, the medic, since they are pretty vital to the enemy. Thinking that they are untrained in combat is simply ridiculous, they would be a liability instead of an asset on the battlefield. Theory is well and good, but it stays theory contrary to reality at the end of the day.

So, yeah, in that light, it's quite reasonable to think that the closest thing we have to a field medic in this game, a healer, should be able to handle themselves in battle as well, no? And, lo and behold, they do.

Btw, NPC healers, both enemies and allies, ALSO attack (see trust system). So why should you be different, eh?