Am a doctor...

[( QC ) chiensale2005]

Yea right. You can't figure if the bite is from a human or a dog. Do someone else have a problem with this ? :)

[Hillbilly_Dave]

I'm wondering what kind of doctor can't tell that that wasn't a human/zombie bite mark and didn't understand that if left untreated her arm would have developed a massive infection and she would have had a fever regardless of zombie bite or not.

[Separa]

Well; one possibility, that I hadn't considered before, is that he lied to these people about the fact that he is a doctor. It might have been to make sure that they stayed around. He seems to want to protect his daugher above all else. It's at least plausible, anyway.

[Captain Shittastic]

Originally posted by Kerith:

The disease is not transmitted by bites. It's a latent infection that manifests itself after death. Judging by how quickly the general population was infected it is likely that the vector of infection is air, water, or food. This is hinted at during Larry's death sequence where he moves after death and just before having his fact mashed flat. In addition, David was never bitten and he still re-animated after bleeding out.

Bites from any animal could cause death and thus re-animate a person. (http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Bites-human-and-animal/Pages/Treatment.aspx)

This describes the zombification process from the TV show which has more examples (http://walkingdead.wikia.com/wiki/Zombies)

I suspect the doctor in question is a homeopath, chiropractor, or oprah (qwack qwacks) who doesn't know what, or maybe an epidemiologist who knows patterns do not dictate cause and effect.

While it is true that in TWD , zombie bites do not cause zombification , but death itself , they still did not treat her wound in the first place. They only stoped at : is it a zombie bite , will she turn from it ? When a minimal examination could have easily told them that it was not a zombie bite and that the quicker it is treated , the better the chances of survival for her.

I mean you could scratch yourself on a tree , get a disease and die from it and turn into a zombie , since only death is needed for zombification . Does that mean people should be left to die at the first scratch they make on themselves ?

I'll admit , lying about being a doctor may well be the truth in how he cannot diferentiate a human bite mark from a dog bite mark , I'd do it too if it could ensure me that people would feed and keep me out of danger as a " valuable ressource ". And in most cases , only minimum first aid knowledge is really needed to act as a doctor. Anything more advanced then a scratch or a broken limb can be passed as " we do not have the medicine or equippement needed to threat your " infection/disease/problem " .

[Gumi]

I took his lack of good analysis as a sign he didn't care enough to put much thought into it, he's a suspicious and coldhearted bastard, like a couple of others in that group. For me at least it just added to the feel of a generally uncaring group of people. Hopefully that's what they were going for. I do agree it didn't look anything like a zombie bite.

[( QC ) chiensale2005]

Well the point is by your owns eyes you can see it not a human bite. The bite is clear, too large for a human. You dont need to be a doctor for that, and the worst in this first episode is we got 4 more survivors with brains who cant see it as well. As somes of you said, yes is a very bad writting! just to make more money with the glory of they first game.

[o1striker]

The way I see it is they were thinking that it could have been a zombie, and that she tried to get away, and the zombie still had a hold of her and ripped it open to form the large, and less than cirular bite. Yes it is possible. Besides in the walking dead world you can't be too cautious even if it was a dog bite the dog could have been infected for all the people or doctor knew.

[Gumi]

Dogs don't get infected. Only humans do.

[o1striker]

Originally posted by ghiz876:

Dogs don't get infected. Only humans do.

Hmm didn't know that. Also how would the survivors themselves know this? Also if this is true it's possible that a dog could have tore up a zombie, and had some still in their mouths while they bite an individual, and they would become infected.
All I know is I would have been very cautious with her myself, though I would have tried to help her anyway, and then put her in the shed.

[Separa]

The zombie virus does not affect animals in any version of The Walking Dead. This is actually linked to the comic book artist, who is apparently very poor at drawing animals, but it has become part of TWD's lore.

[Captain Shittastic]

Originally posted by chiensale2005:

Well the point is by your owns eyes you can see it not a human bite. The bite is clear, too large for a human. You dont need to be a doctor for that, and the worst in this first episode is we got 4 more survivors with brains who cant see it as well. As somes of you said, yes is a very bad writting! just to make more money with the glory of they first game.

While I do agree the writting is weaker in the first episode then it was for the first season , I have to disagree here. The first episode of season 2 is a lot different then the season 1 . It is a lot more action packed then season 1 . You had far less " free time " where you could speak to people , get to know them and side with them , meaning that they needed a " quick way " to separate Clem from the new group she found and make them suspicious of her . The bite idea is actually pretty good for that , the only problem with it is that it was way too obviously not a zombie bite .... there were ways to make it more credible ( as I said some earlier ) but if you take that one mistake out of the picture , the rest of the story was solid enough.

You have one hurt little girl that was separated from the last member of her group that is found by total strangers that do not trust her, nor do they seem to trust each others. I'd bet that they found themselves over the course of the zombie apocalypse instead of a band of survivors from day 1 , meaning that depending on how long they have been togheter they might well still be dangerous for each others . Hell even Lee's group members were dangerous for one an other all the time even after months passed ( and don't get me started on Rick's group ... ).

[Rejjie Sweet]

By him thinking she wouldn't get a fever either way from being crammed into a shed with a open wound. He isn't a doctor. Like what someone said before, he more than likely lied to preserve a place for him and his daughter. Only time will tell.

[Captain Shittastic]

Originally posted by o1striker:

Originally posted by ghiz876:

Dogs don't get infected. Only humans do.

Hmm didn't know that. Also how would the survivors themselves know this? Also if this is true it's possible that a dog could have tore up a zombie, and had some still in their mouths while they bite an individual, and they would become infected.
All I know is I would have been very cautious with her myself, though I would have tried to help her anyway, and then put her in the shed.

Originally posted by Temerity:

The zombie virus does not affect animals in any version of The Walking Dead. This is actually linked to the comic book artist, who is apparently very poor at drawing animals, but it has become part of TWD's lore.

That . Also I'm pretty sure the survivors know by now that animals do not get infected , seeing that they have been living from hunting and that there in the 2 years ( in the game ) the apocalypse started there are no zombie animals .

Also I'm pretty reluctant to concider that after 2 years , almost nobody knows that you do not need to be bitten to turn upon death ... Have they really never had a survivor who died of something else then a zombie bite ... in 2 ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ years ?

[Tychoxi]

Yeah, I was expecting him to be able to discern a dog bite, BUT just because he's a "doctor" doesn't mean he can do this with confidence. I actually have the reverse problem with most shows/games: just because someone is a medic doesn't mean he's an expert in everything, if you are stuck in an island with an oncologist I wish you good luck if you have anything but common and general health problems (or cancer).

Then again, I found his reasoning to be super dumb, there were high chances the dog bite could kill her so locking her in a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ shed without water or food and without applying basic first aid... well it would have been more humane to just shoot her in the head.

[Krazehcakes]

I tried appealing to him, the ♥♥♥♥ just smiled at me. He knew it'd get infected regardless of zombie bite or not and still dumped you in the shed. The Guy's shady.

[Separa]

I tried appealing to him too, in my second playthrough, and he was actually nice to me. It might have to do with the approach that we took though.