Medical Dread

Posted on Sat Jan 1st, 2022 @ 7:02am by Commander Sthilg

Mission: Season 5: Episode 3: CAPETOWN
Location: Main Medical Bay
Timeline: MD4 12h00
1172 words - 2.3 OF Standard Post Measure

Shan was not a fan of medical at all. It stemmed from her time at the academy when a doctor there had poked and prodded at her as Female Varlarians were rare to them. But she dutifully made her way into medical and paused just inside the door.

"Hello?" she called out.

The ship's MD was in his office his artificial arm on his desk as he did his weekly clean of it. Hearing the call he stood up and looked out side. " Hello, my dear. I'll be with you in a second." he said as he pocked his head out of his office.

~Darn it~ Shan thought but she merely nodded and replied with "No rush!"

The gorn stepped back into his office and quickly reattached his artificial arm. As he flexed his figures he stepped out offering his hand and giving her a warm smile. " Hello, my dear. Nice to meet you. I'm Sssthilg the chief MD."

"hello, Ensign Kelmys" She introduced herself. "I am here for my onboarding medical exam." she did her best to remain calm about it.

" Nice to meet you Kelmys. If you'll follow me we'll get you ssseen to." the old reptile replied friendly as he lead the way to his office, " Any injuriesss or ilnessss not on your file?" he asked.

"Ah a concussion about 3 months ago. Orion pirates. All good now though.: Shan said as she sat down on the indicated bio bed.

" How did that happen and why is it not on your file?" the gorn inquired.

"I was on leave at the time, at a archaeological dig site. Guess the medic never updated the file properly" Shan said

" I'll dig around and sssee what happened. " the gorn said as he started up the scanner. " Ssso my dear how are you finding the ssship?"

"She is bigger than my last posting" Shanyrria replied. "The Tesla was only 15 decks."

" I can remember ssserving on birdsss of prey with only five decksss." the doctor chuckled in reply.

"I am glad there is more than just 2 science officers, Tesla had a very small contingent and the science chief there was lazy as a human snail."

" I can assure you the sssceince divsssion of this fine vesssssle isss one of the bessst in the fleet. " The gorn replied reassuringly.

"I have heard good things about it." Shan replied.

The gorn was about to reply before a beep from the computer made him look down. " Oh my." He quietly mouthed as he looked at the woman on the bio bed.

The beep had her looking at him. She saw his mouth move. "Doctor?" Shan asked.

" It'sss okay my dear. " The gorn said giving her a reassuring look. " The computer hasss detected sssome unusssal tissssue in your right chessst. I'll need to take a clossser look."

Shan looked at him. "O-okay" she said and tried to relax.

The gorn began to run a steriliser over his arm as it changed into surgical mode. " Jussst lay back an relax my dear. Can you roll up your ssshirt thissss will only take a moment?"

Shan undid her jacket and shrugged it off then removed her under shirt down to her sports bra.

" This won't take more than a minute. " the gorn said reassuringly as one of his arms surgical fingers made an inversion less than a mm wide. One of his other entered and winin moments had removed a sample and exited as it sealed the incision. " There we go. Sssorry I took ssso long i'm getting very old."

Shan studied him. "Old?" She asked curiously. " you dont seem old to me."
She began getting dressed.

" I'm over two hundred yearsss old my dear." the gorn chuckled as he walked over to his desk to examine the sample.

Shan sat up. "really?" she asked. "I apologise, I was not aware that Gorn are so long lived. The history.. sorry, I am an archaeologist so my mouth runs away with me at times."

" Are avriage lifessspan is a mere fifity yearsss. I'm one of the lucky onesss to have made it thisss long." The lizard said looking up from his desk with a smile.

Shan nodded. The ailen anthropologist inside her was intrigued but she knew this Doctor was no one to experiment on. "Then you are blessed to be able to live so long."

" It's both blesssssing and cursssse at the ssssame time." Sthilg said as the results started to come in.

Shan titled her head. "I can see how that would be the case" she admitted.

" I've ssseen thingsss many won't get to sssee in one lifetime and ssseen more tragediesss than one ssshould have." The doctor waxed poetically as the scanner finished. " Well, luckily we found that when I did. Tell me my dear have any of your family sssuffred from klanrax?" The gorn inquired.

Shan shook her head. "No... what is Klanrax?"

" It'sss a medicle conation where clumpsss of dead tisssssue can remain in the body isssted of being removed. It'sss a simple enough issue to fix." The gorn explained.

"What causes it?" Shanyrria asked curiously.

" It'sss genetic, it has been known to skip a few genrationsss." the doctor said as he stood up and walked to the medical replicator. After tapping in a code and collecting the small vile he returned with a hypospray. " Jussst need to inject thisss. "

Shanyrria nodded "Okay, will it reoccur?"

" It may. If you sssufer any cutsss or breaksss you ssshould make assure to check in with a doctor. Make assure it's healing properly. " Sthilg explained camly.

"Well I try to avoid events that cause such things as a rule." Shan gave him a smile.

" I'm assure you do, jussst let me know if you do have one." the gorn said offering a reassuring hand. " Now this may hurt slightly." He said moving the hypospray over Shanyrria's chest.

She nodded and relaxed as he began the procedure. "Pain is temporary" she said softly.

The gorn gave a warm smile as he injected the spray into the infected area. " There we go. Let me add a ssstimulant patch." he explained before turning with a thin grey disk. Crafuly he laid it on her skin before giving her atumbs up. " There we go my dear. Problem ssshould be cleared up in a few daysss."

Shan sat up. "Thank you Doctor" She said with a smile.

" My pleasure my dear. If anything feelsss wrong come straight back here." Sthilg explained as he began to clean down his gear.

"I will. Am I cleared for duty Doctor?" Shan stood and straightened her uniform.

" I sssee no reason to keep you here my dear. I'll sssee you around the ssship." He said with his warm grandfatherly smile.

Shan smiled at him. "Thank you Doctor" she turned for the door.

" Take care my dear. " The gorn said as he returned to his desk to fill in the report and chance up her unreported surgery.

Shan left medical and headed for her office. Back to work she went.