Related indexes:
- Afraid of Needles: Someone is scared of getting injections.
- After-Action Healing Drama: Someone is seriously injured and needs healing after an action scene.
- After-Action Patch-Up: Someone is injured and gets treated after an action scene, but their injuries weren't serious.
- After-Combat Recovery: Video game characters who get injured in fights automatically heal when they go out of combat mode.
- Anatomically Ignorant Healing: Aliens have no clue how to heal a human.
- Anti-Regeneration: Someone's healing powers are nullified.
- Appetite Equals Health: Having no appetite means the character is ill, and being hungry again and starting to eat signifies they're getting well.
- Auto-Doc: Machines that heal.
- Bandage Wince: Someone winces at being bandaged up.
- Calming Tea: Facing shock, trauma, or jittery nerves? Tea would help with that.
- Carnivorous Healing Factor: The ability to heal quickly by eating flesh.
- Casual Crucifixion: Being crucified is a lot easier to recover from than it should be.
- Cloning Body Parts: Doctors can clone body parts if patients need them replaced.
- Comically Inept Healing: Someone tries to heal another person despite having no idea how.
- Crisis Point Hospital: A hospital overwhelmed and failing in the face of a crisis - or maybe just by nature.
- Cure for Cancer: Cures for real-life terminal illnesses.
- Delayed Diagnosis: A character shows signs of an illness or disability, but isn't diagnosed until later.
- Determined Doctor: A doctor who refuses to give up on helping their patients, no matter what.
- Disability-Negating Superpower: A disabled character develops superpowers that, while active, negate their disability.
- Disease by Any Other Name: The characters don't know what a sick character has, but the viewers can get a pretty good idea.
- Empathic Healer: Someone who can heal others but in the process, they become afflicted with what's bothering the people getting healed.
- Energy Donation: One character gives their life energy to another.
- Fake Faith Healer: Pretends to offer faith-based healing services.
- Fantastically Challenging Patient: When a human doctor is faced with the challenge of a non-human patient.
- Fantastic Medicinal Bodily Product: A creature's body part has healing properties.
- Finger-Suck Healing: Sucking on someone else's sore finger to heal it.
- Find the Cure!: A plot focused on finding a cure for something.
- Foot Bath Treatment: A hot foot bath as a treatment for the cold.
- Foul Medicine: Medicine that smells, and/or tastes, horrible.
- Good Thing You Can Heal: A character with healing powers is seriously injured.
- Harmful Healing: Medical methods that actually make things worse.
- Headbutt Thermometer: Touching foreheads to check someone's temperature.
- Healer God: A deity who specializes in healing.
- Healer Signs On Early: In video games, a healer will join the player's party early on.
- Healing Boss: When the ability to heal is used by the boss.
- Healing Factor: Someone can heal themselves instantly.
- Healing Hands: Someone with the ability to heal others.
- Healing Herb: Plants that can cure.
- Healing Loop: The possibility of a (near-)invincible enemy due to their ability to heal.
- Healing Magic Is the Hardest: Most things can be done easily via magic, but healing others is difficult to do magically.
- Healing Potion: A potion with healing properties.
- Healing Serpent: Snakes and snake-linked entities related to healing, either literally or as a symbol.
- Healing Shiv: Someone is healed by a weapon.
- Healing Spring: A body of water with healing powers.
- Healing Vat: Someone is healed by being put in a tank of fluid.
- Healing Winds: Wind or air have healing properties.
- Heal It with Blood: Blood is used to heal ailments.
- Heal It with Booze: Healing wounds with alcohol or using it as anasthaesia.
- Heal It With Fire: Fire is used to heal wounds.
- Heal It with Nature: Nature magic is used to heal wounds.
- Heal It with Water: Water has healing properties.
- Heal Thyself: A video game character heals themselves with a first aid kit.
- Healthy Country Air: The country is good for the ill, especially those with respiratory-based illnesses.
- Hollywood Healing: Heroes never get scars, even if they logically should.
- Hot Drink Cure: Giving a sick, injured, hoarse, or hypothermic character a hot drink.
- Hyperactive Metabolism: Health is gained back just by eating food.
- Illness Blanket: Ill people sit wrapped up in blankets.
- Improbable Antidote: Something weird works as an antidote.
- Improvised Bandage: Patching up a wound or injury with uncoventional objects.
- From Dress to Dressing: Using parts of clothes as a bandage.
- Inconvenient Hippocratic Oath: Someone with medical training is in some situation where revealing their abilities could put them at risk—maybe they're on the run from the law, or a time traveller trying to blend in to a less advanced era—but they come across someone in desperate need of medical attention that they feel duty-bound to provide.
- Injection Plot: A character needs to get a shot such as a vaccine.
- Injury Bookend: A repeat of what caused an injury gets rid of it.
- Intimate Healing: Healing someone in a romantic or sexual way.
- Intimate Lotion Application: Applying lotion on another character as a way to create sexual tension, romantic intimacy, awkwardness, or humor.
- Intimate Psychotherapy: Sex cures psychological problems.
- Is There a Doctor in the House?: Stock Phrase said when medical attention is needed.
- Life Drain: An attack that does damage, as is normal, but also heals the user.
- Like a Surgeon: Any situation other than a real surgery is treated like one.
- Magic Antidote: An antidote or vaccination that works instantly.
- Medical Game: A game about administering medical treatment.
- Medical Monarch: A king or queen who has the power to heal others.
- Medicinal Cuisine: When food is used to treat illness or improve general health.
- Medicine Show: A traveling wagon show with a medical theme.
- Mental Health Recovery Arc: A character arc revolving around mental illness or trauma recovery.
- Mistaken for Disease: Strange events are incorrectly assumed to be caused by a communicable disease.
- Mountaintop Healthcare: A medical facility set on or atop a mountain.
- No Cure for Evil: Bad guys cannot do healing magic.
- Nurse with Good Intentions: Someone tries to care for their sick or injured friend, but causes more problems than success.
- Panacea: A substance that can cure anything.
- Placebo Effect: It only works because they think it works.
- Poison and Cure Gambit: A plot that involves poisoning someone and making them find the antidote.
- Post-Treatment Lollipop: After an unpleasant treatment, doctors reward good patients with candy.
- Putting the "Medic" in Comedic: Laughter is the only medicine when you go to this hospital.
- Regenerating Health: Walking cures wounds.
- Resting Recovery: Sleeping cures video game characters.
- Roadside Surgery: Operating outside of an operating room.
- Saved by the Phlebotinum: A character's life is saved thanks to phlebotinum.
- Scary Stitches: Stitch work leaving ugly scars.
- Self-Recovery Surprise: Someone hurts a villain, who reveals that they have healing powers.
- Self-Surgery: Someone operates, or tries to operate, on themselves.
- Soup Is Medicine: A character who is ill is given some soup.
- Swiss-Army Tears: Tears with curative properties used to heal.
- That Old-Time Prescription: Primitive medicines that sort of work.
- Throwing Off the Disability: A character who used to be disabled now isn't.
- Trauma Inn: Staying at an inn heals the stayer.
- Undeath Is Cheap: Zombification or vampirism than can be cured easily through medicines or other treatments.
- Undressing the Unconscious: A unconscious character needs to have their clothes removed for their health.
- Vampiric Draining: The superpower to pull life force out of other people and use it to repair the user.
- Villainous Medical Care: An injured/sick/poisoned hero is treated/cured by a villain.
- White Magician Girl: A healing specialist whose role is the party's resident healer, nurturer and source of feminine wisdom.
- Withholding the Cure: Someone prevents the cure for a disease from getting to the sick people for selfish reasons.
- Wounded Hero, Weaker Helper: Someone is hurt and must be treated by someone who's more hurt or is inexperienced.
