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Can I refuse healing from a Doctor or Medicine card?

The designer ruled directly on this in two threads.

jgilmour · Designer · 2014-08-10
jgilmour · Designer · 2014-12-02
RebelScum · Community · 2015-01-08

No. Healing is a card effect, so it cannot be refused (unlike a hand-off, which is consensual). You may ask not to be healed, but it is the healer's choice. The Doctor's heal works only at the Colony.

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