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- "We've been through a century of the Jihad, then the Scourge, and now this new epidemic. Humanity must be prepared to face all the tragedies the universe has in store for us. When our race is at stake, important victories are won in hospitals as much as on battlefields. We can take the best of us, the most talented researchers, the most skilled doctors, and gotm a medical school like none the League has ever seen. We must make sure that our doctors and facilities are such that no threat of machine, war, or plague can ever harm us again."
- ―Mohandas Suk to Raquella Berto-Anirul[src]
The Suk Medical School, also known as the Suk Inner School, was a famous place of learning specializing with medicine, and devoted to finding cures for the ailments which plagued humanity and advancing man's medicinal knowledge. Widely considered superior to any other medical group, the Suk doctors were some of the best in fields ranging as far as cybernetics.
Founded by Mohandas Suk after the Rossak Epidemic in 88 BG, it was claimed that their graduates, like Mentats or Swordmasters of Ginaz, were the best in the Empire. Suk doctors were thought to have been mentally conditioned in a way that they can never take a human life. In a time rife with kanly, this was a very valuable thing for a trusted doctor. They had a diamond tattoo on their foreheads as a sign of the Imperial Conditioning and a silver ring binding their long hair.
It was never known if they trained their doctors in a single planet, but as late as the War of the Bene Gesserit and Honored Matres, Suk doctors were known to work with other people, notably with the Bene Gesserit. Suk doctors needed not be recruited directly from their home planet or association, as Dr Wellington Yueh was serving House Richese when his services were hired by House Harkonnen and House Atreides. They did, however, remit part of their expensive fees back to the Suk School.