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ten_fwd2015-01-23 08:45 pm
ten_fwd_npcs) wrote in ten_fwd2015-01-23 08:45 pm
[Sickbay]: Round Seven Scans and Vaccines
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. As a matter of fact, all personnel look harmless. Well, perhaps excluding the sun avatar, but Trance Gemini is as skilled as the Starfleet officers.
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! 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. For those who are tagging: if you have a preference which doctor sees your character, please specify in the subject line of your tag who you would like (Simon Tam is not available this time). There is a post up in the OOC comm with more details if you have any questions.]
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Gabriel wanted it because it was a fitting career for his son, a way to see Simon maintain his place as one of Osiris' elite. Simon wanted it because he wanted to help people, because looking after River had taught him how rewarding that could be.
The money and prestige didn't hurt, but when it really came to it? It was about helping.
"I'm hardly a teacher." He's good at what he does, gifted, yes, but not a teacher and not even a very experienced doctor. "It takes years of study and experience, but if you wanted to learn, I'm sure there's a way to get started here."
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She looked around the room, and her shoulders slumped a little, as she realized just how many doctors there were here. She could take care of Katniss, but the hope was... Katniss wouldn't need much mending.
"But of course you have all you need here," she muttered, looking at Buttercup again, feeling stupid. She could patch up Lady, way back when but here... here she was once again nothing more than Katniss Everdeen's little sister. A useless appendage.
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That's just it. For all he's a doctor and has wanted to be one for most of his life, for all he loves the work and the ability to truly help people,that doesn't make him particularly skilled at talking to the people he's helping.
In fact, he's awful at it, something that the crew of Serenity has commented on more than once. He doesn't know how to deal with a girl from another time and place, one he's completely unfamiliar with, who wants to be a doctor.
He glances down at the tricorder, then holds it up, a questioning expression on his face.
"Do you mind if I do this now?"
The checkup, he knows how to do.
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If it would get her to allow him to do his work and stop him from feeling like any more of a cad by upsetting her again, he'd show her. And even if teaching medicine to a girl of her age was beyond him, what wasn't was showing her some of what he knew.
Sometimes, he had to do the same thing with River, to talk her through the steps, let her see the instruments he was using, explain the treatments and the medications. Some patients needed to know, for their own sake, and some wanted to learn.
He held up the tricorder.
"Have you seen one of these before?" he asked. "It's a tricorder. We use it to scan you and check on your physical state."
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