[Sickbay]: Round Nineteen Scans and Vaccines

[ten_fwd_npcs]

If this is your first trip to Sickbay, you may be surprised to see that it's a fairly ordinary-looking hospital. There are no terrifying devices or humming machines you might see in a sci-fi thriller. The biobeds along the walls are equipped with biofunction monitors, but look fairly standard. Instead of silver trays filled with metal tools and sawblades, there are an array of small devices that look as harmless as cell phones. As for the staff, they're all well-groomed and friendly — even the more unusual aliens.

If you're new to the ship, no doubt you've been escorted here by the security team. Nothing to worry about, the doctors just want to make sure you aren't carrying any viruses or are vulnerable to terrible space disease. Once you've been checked over — a quick scan from a tricorder and any necessary vaccines — you'll be free to go. Lollipops are optional.

"All right, step on in," one of them calls out as you enter. "Don't be afraid. It's just a scan and a hypospray, nothing to worry about."


[ooc: Sickbay is, as always, OTA and open until the next one goes up for latecomers! For new characters: tagging isn't mandatory but IC going to sickbay is. If you'd prefer to skip threading with one of our doctors, you can handwave that your character got a clean bill of health and a shot and were sent on their merry way. There will be a post up in the OOC comm shortly with more details about Sickbay and which doctors are on deck this month, if you have any questions.]

Comments

[impossibilities]

She looked down at the tricorder. The computer usually recorded all medical sessions for just such occasions. "I believe so. You would just have to ask the doctors, ad have them bring it up on the computer. I think they do compare and contrast often so they can see what has changed."

[agathaheterodyne]

"Good. I need to see how my brain scan has altered, and then I need to see how I can alter the scans," she said, leaning over to look. Then she considered. "I should look at my blood chemistry eventually, but I think I can fix that issue without the readings."

[impossibilities]

"If there's anything off or not natural, I think they can filter out the brain scans..." Grainne frowned, thinking back over the manuals. Didn't it say something about the scanners being able to detect such things? It was a way of finding alien influences. She reached for a PADD and started looking it up. "Certainly they can compare. Compare is one of the basics of medicine."

And this.... is why she still is trying to cut into her own skull. No docs reply.

[agathaheterodyne]

"And Science," she said with an agreeing nod. "The problem with filtering is we don't know what we are filtering for, and once we know, we only need the filter to monitor changes going forward."