The missing Role: speculation on Healing rules

[Frostmarrow]

It will be very interesting to see how 4e handles condition cures - curse, disease, stat loss and the like.

We know Second Wind is in the game, a 1/day ability all PCs have which enables self-healing. We know clerics can heal also, from the dragon combat example. I think I read somewhere that the cleric will be the best healer but I'm not 100% certain.

Every condition has a known remedy. The DM can make it easy or hard to procure the remedy. E.g. Magical blindness is cured by ointment made of basilisk eyes. You can get the stuff bottled or head out into the thickets and hunt a basilisk down.