Rules Update: Battle Surgery

The text for the Physician skill Battle Surgery has been updated as follows:

Rank IV: Battle Surgery
With this doctoring skill a physician can apply emergency medical attention to a subject who is in any stage of their death count.  The physician must treat the subject for three minutes, without interruption.  After successful treatment with this skill, the critical stage of the subject’s death count is extended for an additional thirty minutes. The additional death count time suppresses other extensions, but is removed once the target is healed to consciousness.

This has been updated in the Online Rulebook.

what happens if someone reaches the 5-min mark on their critical count before the physician finishes?

All healing abilities halt the death count while being performed.

Specifically:

"When a physician employs a skill seeking to extend the death count of a subject, or seeking to bring a subject out of serious or critical condition, that subject's death count is paused while the skill is being performed.  If the treatment is interrupted in any way, the subject's death count resumes from the point at which it was suspended."

"Abilities that affect a subject in the death count do not have any effect until they have been successfully performed, but the subject’s death count is suspended during the concentration time."

Not all Healing - just the ones mentioned above.