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{{quote|''"Who needs a real doctor when you got my machines and their scary needles?"''|"Doctor" Zed's Med Vendor, ''[[Borderlands (Video Game)|Borderlands]]''}}
 
In [[The Future]] or [[Twenty Minutes in The Future|sometime soon]], you won't need a steady hand to heal people, some machine is already doing it for you. In a futuristic setting there will be machines that fix human bodies automatically. If a human doctor is participating in it at all, he will only press buttons and won't even touch a scalpel.
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* In ''[[Dragonball Z]]'', we have the healing tanks used by Freeza's forces.
* In ''[[Gall Force]]'', when Lufy is brought into the analysis station operated by Spea, they just move her into a chamber and press some buttons to restart her heart from a state of suspended animation. Spea mentions offhand that there are several injuries that may require organ replacement.
* ''[[The Law of Ueki (Manga)|The Law of Ueki]]'' has Heavenly Beasts that release a healing machine which fully restores anyone inside it for exactly 10 minutes. However, if the healing process is interrupted in any way and the machine is damaged, the person inside it will die.
 
 
== Film ==
* The movie ''[[Starship Troopers (Filmfilm)|Starship Troopers]]'' places an injured Rico in a nutrient tank with automated metal hands mending his thigh wound.
* ''[[The Empire Strikes Back]]''. The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUpNDkVEMQs#t=6m08s scene where Luke is in the bacta tank] (transparent tube filled with liquid) being attended to by droids after being rescued from freezing to death. A droid injects something into the tube (presumably some kind of drug).
** The medical droids return at the end to give Luke a new [[Artificial Limbs|hand]].
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== Live Action TV ==
* In the ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' two-parter {{spoiler|"The Empty Child" and "The Doctor Dances"}}, a nanotechnology [[Gone Horribly Wrong|designed to heal]], creates some of the most potent scares in the new series up to that point.
** Also, In "The Curse of the Black Spot", {{spoiler|the Siren}}.
** And in "The Girl Who Waited", the Handbots.
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* ''[[Shadowrun]]'': Many medical devices are run either on automatic or by remote.
* R. Talsorian Games' ''[[Tabletop Games/Cyberpunk|Cyberpunk]]'' supplement ''Home of the Free''. The Automedic is put on top of a patient and immediately goes to work: diagnosing problems, stabilizing the patient, treating wounds, injecting drugs etc.
* The ''[[Hollow Earth Expedition (Tabletop Game)|Hollow Earth Expedition]]'' supplement ''Secrets of the Surface World'' had an Auto-Doctor as a possible Weird Science gadget.
* ''Laserburn Sci-Fi Combat Rules'' (1980). When attached to a wounded person, the Automedic device will repair severed arteries, administer needed drugs and so on.
* ''[[Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game)|Genius: The Transgression]]'' allows characters to build these.
* ''Mutant Future''.
** When placed over a wound and activated, Healing Packs send out a wave of healing radiation that closes wounds, mends broken bones, replaces lost tissue, etc.
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** Regeneration Tanks were filled with a special regenerative chemical that healed damaged organs and wounds. There are rumors about a special kind of Regeneration Tank that can bring people back from the dead if used within 24 hours of death.
* ''[[Paranoia]]'' has the DocBots, tireless medical personnel of the Alpha Complex intended to see to all the clones' problems. Predictably, they are about as reliable as most Alpha Complex robots at best and [[AI Is a Crapshoot|stark raving insane]] at worse.
* "Healing Vats" are the oldest and most common forms of medical nanotechnology in ''[[Eclipse Phase (Tabletop Game)|Eclipse Phase]]''. They can regenerate a lost limb in about twelve hours and restore a severed head's body in a week or two.
* Gamescience's ''Space Patrol'' (1977) had the Medikit, which was strapped to its owner's wrist or waist and constantly monitored its wearer's well being. When something went wrong with their body, it would inject any needed drugs to remedy the situation.
* ''Starblazer Adventures'', based on the 1980's British science fiction [[Comic Book]]. A starship's Med-Bay system included a medical computer system capable of aiding in the diagnosis and treatment of injuries.
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== Video Games ==
* In ''[[Fallout]]'', there are machines called Autodocs. For the most part, they seem to work pretty well, but [[AI Is a Crapshoot]] is still in full effect here.
** In ''[[Fallout: New Vegas|New Vegas]]'', Caesar heads up the Legion, an explicitly technophobic group of tribes and gangs, not using anything more advanced than basic rifles, a motorized grinding wheel, and at least one [[Chainsaw Good|chainsaw]]. If you actually get into Caesar's tent, he has an autodoc mounted to the foot of his bed.
** In the ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]'' DLC "Dead Money", you find Christine inside one.
*** To be fair, the one Christine was trapped in was modified to slit her vocal cords...
** In New Vegas's Old World Blues DLC, the Courier gets an Auto Doc that has a personality and is the best physician in game, able to add implants, replace organs, give psychological evaluations (and by extension of that feature CURE NEARSIGHTEDNESS for [[Blind Without'Em|Four Eye'd]] players), standard check ups and [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|give haircuts]]. If he's left on, with a good Courier he finds a way to turn off the Y-17 Trauma Harnesses, freeing the corpses trapped inside several years after the game ends.
** ''[[Fallout 3]]'' has the My First Infirmary in your house, which could heal everything short of addiction. It also has a Mr. Handy and Mr. Gutsy standing in for autodocs. These are military robots forced into positions they are neither equipped or trained for. Andy treats a sprained toe by amputating the wrong leg, and Sawbones wants to inflict damage instead (though he at least can be modified to provide proper care).
* ''[[Bio ShockBioshock]]'' has automatic medical machines. They charge you cash, but will heal you completly, however enemies can also use them. You can also hack them so they'll give you a discount and kill any enemies who try to heal with it. Destroying them causes them to drop first aid kits.
* ''[[Chrono Trigger (Video Game)|Chrono Trigger]]'' has in its ruined future a booth that heals all your wounds... but still leaves you hungry. ''[[Chrono Cross (Video Game)|Chrono Cross]]'' [[Continuity Nod|references this briefly later on.]]
* The [[Pokémon (Franchise)|Pokémon]] games do this with the Healing Machine in Pokemon Centers. There are even stand-alone consoles in [[Pokémon Colosseum|Colosseum]].
* ''[[Deus Ex (Video Game)|Deus Ex]]'' features healing robots that can heal the player fully without using resources and can preform surgery to install augmentations. Notably, Deus Ex is on a much lower tech level than most examples, taking place in 2052, with the only other technological advancement over the 2000s being limited human augmentation and attack robots.
* ''[[System Shock]] 1'' and ''2'' have automatic medical beds that heal you completely in an instant. They also have Quantum Bio-Reconstruction Machines that will reanimate "killed" characters, though these need to be reset so they won't turn them into more cyborgs instead.
* ''[[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Team Fortress 2]]'' has the Engineer's Dispenser, which will heal nearby teammates and provide ammo for them.
* ''[[Half Life]]'' and ''[[Half-Life 2 (Video Game)|Half-Life 2]]'' have both first aid stations, which heal you, and similar looking HEV stations, which recharge your HEV suit.
* ''[[Dawn of War]]''. Eldar Webway Gates can be upgraded to provide a healing aura.
* In ''[[Mission Critical]]'', there's one in the ''Lexington'''s medical bay. It becomes useful later.
* ''[[The Chronicles of Riddick]]: Escape From Butcher Bay'' features NanoMED Plus stations which will inject a user with nanomachines to repair injuries nearly instantly.
{{quote| "NanoMED Plus: We treat you right when the world treats you rough."}}
* In the NES game ''[[Nightshade (Video Game)|Nightshade]]'', there's a healing booth in the superhero Vortex's cave. Nightshade is allowed in only after gaining sufficiency notoriety with his heroics.
* ''[[Xenosaga II]]'': Jin Uzuki mentions that such machines have taken over most of the doctors' duty, with the doctors (he included) now essentially being counselors.
 
 
== Web Comics ==
* ''[[Schlock Mercenary (Webcomic)|Schlock Mercenary]]'' had one that was souped up a bit and actually tried to ''improve'' its patients, sometimes successfully.
* ''[[A Miracle of Science (Webcomic)|A Miracle of Science]]'' has [http://www.project-apollo.net/mos/mos340.html this] [http://www.project-apollo.net/mos/mos349.html doc].
* In ''[[Escape From Terra (Webcomic)|Escape Fromfrom Terra]]'' most households on Mars or Ceres supposedly have one that can repair a shot through the heart if gotten to soon enough. They're illegal on Terra though due to their ban on biotech and nanotech.
 
 
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers (Animation)|Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers]]'' established that one of these was on Ranger-1. Good thing, as none of the party were known medics!
 
 
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