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* '''Exaggerated''':'''Exaggerated''': After ThePlague, there is just no more professional healthcare, but also all layman medical knowledge that could exist in any survivor's head just seems to have disappeared.



* '''Justified''': Nearly all doctors have caught ThePlague themselves and died why trying to treat the infected.
* '''Inverted''': TheVirus somehow turned all survivors into medical geniuses, so there are plenty of healthcare options still available.
* '''Subverted''': Our heroes scavenge through the world and have to try to survive without anyone helping them when they are sick. But in a moment when Alice is already in diabetic coma and Bob using a stick to find his way, they find a still-functioning hospital.

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* '''Justified''': Nearly all doctors have caught ThePlague themselves and died why while trying to treat the infected.
* '''Inverted''': TheVirus somehow turned all survivors into medical geniuses, so there are plenty of healthcare options still available.
more available in comparison to before.
* '''Subverted''': Our heroes [[ScavengerWorld scavenge through the world world]] and have to try to survive without anyone helping them when they are sick. But in a moment when Alice is already in a diabetic coma and Bob using a stick to find his way, they find a still-functioning hospital.



* '''Conversed''': ???

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* '''Conversed''': ???"Scary, isn't it? That makes you thankful for what you have."
* '''Deconstructed''': Hospitals and medical facilities are kept running the longest by governmental plans. And there are also still plenty of options from traditional and layman medicine, that may not be as good as modern medicine, but also work in some way.
* '''Reconstructed''': But this is not forever. And SelfSurgery and layman medicine just aren't as good as real modern medicine.
* '''Played for Drama''': Some of TheImmune have survived ThePlague only to be brought into danger by their individual bodily weaknesses that weren't real weaknesses thanks to modern medicine before.
* '''Implied''': Before ThePlague, Alice was always quite fine thanks to her insulin pump, but soon after ThePlague hits, her health starts to deteriorate from diabetes and nobody can help her.
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'''Basic Trope Description''': Healthcare and medicine aren't available any longer in a post-apocalyptic setting.

* '''Straight''': After ThePlague hits, there is no healthcare available to the survivors, leading to things like Bob having to learn to get along without glasses after breaking them and Alice dying because she cannot get any insulin for her diabetes.
* '''Exaggerated''':
* '''Downplayed''': Smaller injuries like a broken finger and lighter diseases like the common cold are still well curable, but everything else...not so much.
* '''Justified''': Nearly all doctors have caught ThePlague themselves and died why trying to treat the infected.
* '''Inverted''': TheVirus somehow turned all survivors into medical geniuses, so there are plenty of healthcare options still available.
* '''Subverted''': Our heroes scavenge through the world and have to try to survive without anyone helping them when they are sick. But in a moment when Alice is already in diabetic coma and Bob using a stick to find his way, they find a still-functioning hospital.
* '''Double Subverted''': This turns out to be AllJustADream.
* '''Enforced''': The makers of the show think that this would be realistic.
* '''Averted''': CozyCatastrophe
* '''Zig-Zagged''': Here and then, the healthcare system still works, but it is really just "here and then".
* '''Invoked''': The military bombs all kinds of healthcare facilities since they became not much more than the main spreading points for ThePlague. They just don't care what becomes of the survivors.
* '''Exploited''': Emperor Evulz uses the situation for propaganda and lures people on his side by promising them the healthcare system back.
* '''Defied''': Some surviving doctors and nurses set up their own emergency healthcare center to give people still an option to get treatment.
* '''Lampshaded''': "Sorry Alice, this is the apocalypse. We will find no insulin. Better prepare to die."
* '''Discussed''': "We can't hope to get him into hospital." "Well, seems like we have to try operating on him ourselves..."
* '''Conversed''': ???

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