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{{quote|''"Well, I can tell you that [[Living Forever Is Awesome|a long life need not be a boring one]]. Everyone's always changing. And I don't just mean physically, though there's been a lot of that going around lately."''|Mori, [http://www.drunkduck.com/The_Dragon_Doctors/5353046/ here]}}
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Some of their major patients so far range from a sentient tree to a girl that is mysteriously invisible to a man suffering from a horrible sentient cancer. Various minor cases crop up that are even more bizarre, such as a man who cannot pronounce any word with the letter "E" in it or a woman trapped in slow motion from birth. Others are odd by our world's standards but considered commonplace by theirs, such as performing voluntary transformation services (like enlarging a pixie to human size so she can live among humans, or rejuvenating the elderly).
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The comic is sometimes compared to ''[[The Wotch]],'' due to its inexperienced artwork and recurring transformation theme, but its story, tone, and premise are decidedly different.
As of early 2022, the comic itself has not been updated since 2019. The most recent update - submitted fan art - was posted in 2020.
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* [[Catch Phrase]]: Sarin seems to have adopted "I am a total magical badass."
* [[Catgirl]]: One of Marty's employees. A few others have shown up sporadically in the backgrounds here and there; there's also been at least one catdude.
** Goro gets turned into the hairy version during the Crax arc. [https://web.archive.org/web/20120511205525/http://www.drunkduck.com/The_Dragon_Doctors/?p=530241 She's pissed.]
* [[Closer to Earth]]: [[Unfortunate Implications|It's hard not to notice]] that the two most down-to-Earth members of the team are the one who was originally female and one who's been hinted multiple times to [[Transsexualism|have always been internally female]].
** This may have more to do with their roles than their genders, though; Mori's the leader and also a scientist, two things that require a level head, and Kili's shaman/therapist dual job also requires her to be considerate and calm.
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* [[Prison Violence]]: According to Tanica, members of [[Murder, Inc.]] are frequent targets for murder in jail.
* [[Pronoun Trouble]]: Generally the comic follows the ''[[Orlando]]'' rule; call 'em "she" if their body is female and "he" if their body is male. So if we're seeing Kili in the past, Kili's a "he," but present Kili is a "she." The author said in several posts that he's amused when readers refer to characters otherwise since it shows off their perception of the characters.
** It's later [https://web.archive.org/web/20120511205336/http://www.drunkduck.com/The_Dragon_Doctors/5356182/ explained in-universe] that when most of the medical team works on bodies rather than minds, it's better to always use physical genders than to make a mistake.
* [[Psychic Surgery]]: Discussed in the Crax arc, but not used; it would rip out the Crax from Greg's body instantly but since the technique requires bare hands, it would be unwise to use it on a life form that devours everything.
* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]:
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* [[We Help the Helpless]]: The Hearts Society is an international organization dedicated to helping victims of magic (in particular, debilitating transformation magic) and stopping "Violators" who cause these sorts of problems. For example, if an evil sorcerer turned you into a statue, or worse, ''a shoe,'' they'd be the ones who would hopefully find you and restore you.
* [[We Will Have Perfect Health in the Future]]: Averted; people are generally ''quite'' healthy, due to how fast magical medicine works as well as rejuvenations making most age-related diseases a thing of the past, but magic has caused just as many weird diseases and problems to crop up in their place.
* [[What Could Have Been]]: The author also had another webcomic idea, but [https://web.archive.org/web/20120511205803/http://www.drunkduck.com/The_Dragon_Doctors/5164417/ discovered] [[El Goonish Shive|it had already been done]].
* [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]]: Derek and Chang especially, but it's suggested that this phenomenon occurring en masse led to [[The End of the World as We Know It]] in the twenty-first century or so. Specifically, magic using sociopath mages who abuse their powers are called "Violators" and are looked upon ''very'' poorly by society, but modern society is now much better equipped for dealing with them.
* [[Winged Humanoid]]: Aki, a couple Pixies, and Sarin with the aid of a spell. There's no flapping because, as Sarin explains, Pixie wings (and spell wings, appearently) work using magic, rather than aerodynamics.
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