Medic-nin

Medic-nin are ninja who specialize in medical treatment and use of medical-oriented jutsu to heal others. Becoming a medic-nin requires high intelligence and far above avarage chakra control. A medic-nin is trained to avoid getting injured when possible, for if they are injured, then other ninjas lives would be in peril. If they are forced into combat, they make use of their chakra control to enhance their taijutsu skills. Medic-nins accompany other ninja on high ranking missions to increase the survival rate of the squad.

Medic-nin make use of the Mystical Palm Technique, a technique used in surgery. The Mystical Palm Technique is useful as it can speed up healing where the users hand is placed. The Chakra Scalpel, another medical ninjutsu, can be used in combat to sever muscles and weaken the body, if the user has good precision. For more serious injuries, a Medic-nin could use Healing Resuscitation Regeneration Technique which would use the Medic-nins own body to act as a medium to help the healing process.

Tsunade Senju is the greatest medic-nin procured by Konoha. Shizune, Tsunade's assistant is also a medic-nin. When the Rescue Squad Shikamaru went to retrieve Sasuke, Sakura went to Tsunade to learn how to become a medic-nin, feeling that she was useless to her team as she was then. Hana Inuzuka is a veterinarian and specializes in medical jutsu involving canines and other ninja-used pets. Chiyo was a Medic-nin from the Sunagakure, but used her skills to produce toxins, although she did know a life saving jutsu that would even revive the dead, if at the cost of her own life. She used this knowledge to revive Gaara of the Sands.

Notable Medic-nin

 * Hana Inuzuka
 * Ino Yamanaka
 * Kabuto Yakushi
 * Hikari Hyuga
 * Sakura Haruno
 * Shizune
 * Tsunade Senju
 * Chiyo
 * Rin
 * Haruka Unohana
 * Yashamaru