[USS Vanguard] Sickbay's Action
- From: "Alexa Bauer" <alexstrpg@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: ncv80221@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 18:53:58 -0500
Author: Lt Cmdr Xristha Droin, MD
Position: Chief Medical Officer
Setting: Vanguard CMO Quarters
<snip>
=^= "McCaw to sickbay, please lock on to Ens. Dufty and beam him to a
biobed."
=^= "Sickbay here. What's his condition?"
=^= "Chronic Idiocy. McCaw out."
<end snip>
?The diagnosis for idiocy went out in the Elizabethan era on Earth. I?m sure
McCaw misdiagnosed.? Xristha said to the emergency med tech who was the on
call specialist.
A badly scraped and bleeding Dufty appeared in sickbay, he was applying
pressure to a laceration on his left hip. ?What happened?? Xristha asked
while grabbing a pain blocker.
?I explained it to Lieutenant McCaw.? He said between breaths.
?That?s nice for Lieutenant McCaw. If I am to treat you I need to know the
cause of the trauma.? She inspected it, ?It looks like you were mauled.?
He didn?t say anything, just looked at the Chief Medical Officer.
?You were mauled?? She asked running a dermal regenerator over the open
wound. ?Spill it.?
She learned of the mishap and lack of judgment.
?You?re lucky you are alive.? Xristha said. She finished patching him up and
gave him a low dosage of pain blocker, enough for him to remember his
stupidity for a while. She rolled her eyes and went back to her desk.
<Later, senior staff assembled>
<snip>
"I cannot compel any of you to join this mission," Santos concluded. "When
we break up this meeting, I will return to my office. I expect you all to
brief your staff and for your staff to keep this confidential, no matter the
outcome of their decision. Anyone who wishes to leave has until 1100 to do
so.
"After that, the Vanguard, using the coordinates given to me and handed over
to M.J. Valentine, will proceed to the Borg home world."
<end snip>
Xristha sat for a moment and thought. She was concerned for Cynan and the
team on another mission. It sound mythical in nature, but she trusted her
colleagues. Her mind paused for one moment, thinking about Cynan and their
rocky relationship, if it could be called that. Since it was mythic in
nature she decided that a little praying wouldn?t hurt. She closed her eyes
for a moment and said a prayer to Vodina, the water goddess on Bandi, the
most treasured element and most powerful deity. She wasn?t sure it would
help, but she decided it probably wouldn?t hurt.
On top of that she was also concerned for the ship?s own task at hand. That
didn?t mean she was going to give up.
?Captain, we?ve had difficult choices to make in the past. I?ll be in
sickbay informing my crew of their options. I?ll be on the ship to meet the
borg.? Xristha said getting up from the table.
<Sickbay>
After briefing the medical crew, it was discovered that no one was leaving
the ship. Because of the confidentiality factor she could not allow any of
the staff to contact their families. The crew themselves had served as one
another?s families. They would make it together.
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