These are the legal questions that you are allowed to use if you use the skill healing arts on a fallen player or NPC.  The target of your question has to answer you, regardless of their language, because this skill represents your ability to evaluate the cause of why they are in the shape you find them.  Note: If the target is non-corporeal (i.e. wearing a white headband) there is no way for you to decipher the problem.

How many Body Points are you down? 
Were you damaged by edged weapons or claws?  
Were you damaged by blunt weapons? Were you waylaid?  
Are you diseased?  
Are you sleeping? 
Are you paralyzed? 
Are you regenerating?  
Are you unconscious (at zero body)? 
Are you dying (at -1 body)? 
Are you dead (need a Life spell)? 
How much time until you <wake up, become conscious, become unparalyzed, die, resurrect>?