"That sounds about right," he admits, because it's always easier to deal with this sort of thing by Not Thinking About It, as much as he's ever able.
"I've not been working constantly for days on end. We have four different Chief Medical Officers around here, cycling through duty shifts. I have more free time than I know what to do with, with all my research back on DS9." Not that he hasn't restarted some of it here on the Enterprise. He offers an arm to walk her to Ten Forward, just as if nothing at all was wrong.
"Doctor Crusher is the only one officially assigned here, of course. Then there's myself, Leonard McCoy, and...well, there's two of him, actually. One older, one younger." It's all incredibly complicated and they're going to spend weeks with Temporal Investigations when they get put back where they belong. "And others who aren't Starfleet. We've more doctors than anyone knows what to do with."
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"I've not been working constantly for days on end. We have four different Chief Medical Officers around here, cycling through duty shifts. I have more free time than I know what to do with, with all my research back on DS9." Not that he hasn't restarted some of it here on the Enterprise. He offers an arm to walk her to Ten Forward, just as if nothing at all was wrong.
"Doctor Crusher is the only one officially assigned here, of course. Then there's myself, Leonard McCoy, and...well, there's two of him, actually. One older, one younger." It's all incredibly complicated and they're going to spend weeks with Temporal Investigations when they get put back where they belong. "And others who aren't Starfleet. We've more doctors than anyone knows what to do with."