[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.]

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[osirian_doctor]

For a moment, the way she spoke made him smile, sadly. There was something singsong about it that reminded him very much of River in her more lyrical moments.

"I thought that might be the case," he said. "The, uh, scans are finished, and there's something you should know about. According to your brain scans, you don't think the same way that most people do. It's a condition that can lead to inattention, trouble focusing, restless activity, impulsive or reckless behavior, difficulty finishing tasks, trouble prioritizing things that don't seem important, a lot of things that can make it hard to do things in day to day life."

He paused and took a breath. "Does any of this sound familiar?"

[radical_hacker]

"Ed's confused." Ed had slid into her 3rd person mode as it was called by one of the crews she traveled with. "Medical care sorta went downhill after the gate accident too." she confessed. "But a lot of its adding up." she admits,"The flighty unless in the middle of a hunt, my need for action, being a little crazy during hunts." her voice trailing off. "Maybe this means Ed's really crazy..." but her mind was spinning. If she was crazy then how could she have been working as a cowboy all this time without anything major crisis wise (stuff going wrong on hunts not withstanding of course)?

But something did slip out,"Then how does that explain my computer skills? Ed's mostly self taught."

[osirian_doctor]

"You're not crazy," he said, firmly. "Thinking in a different way to other people doesn't make you crazy. Sometimes it can make you a genius."

That was as much speaking about and to River as Edward, and he realized it as soon as he'd spoken, but the point was still true.

"I'm not sure what they call it in this time, but in mine, it was Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. If medical care isn't good in your time, it likely wouldn't have been picked up. Many people manage without anyone ever realizing their mind works differently to other people's."

He shrugged. "You're interested in computers. You can probably focus fairly well on things that are important to you."

[radical_hacker]

"2080 and after the gate accident everything went downhill on Earth, medical included." Ed was piecing things together as she spoke. But she was also making mental notes: she had things to dig into and was going to see the bugs in her brain as code to understand. She finally revealed,"Computers always made sense: the codes and everything. Was a white hat hacker in my time." knowing how people sometimes did not understand the world of cowboys. "So now what? What is there options wise besides embracing my weird."