Another Sickbay

Posted on Sat Oct 9th, 2021 @ 9:39am by Ensign Zachary Chandler & Captain Taliserra Tigran & Lieutenant JG Jun Zhao

734 words; about a 4 minute read

Mission: The Silent Scream
Location: Deck 7- Sickbay
Timeline: 8th April 2395 1330hrs

Zack had spent quite a bit of the last 6 months is one sickbay or another. He couldn't say he was overly fond of being poked and prodded, but then who was. He stepped into sickbay for his on-boarding physical and couldn't help but look around and make comparisons.

It was much smaller than the hospital on Starbase Aurora, but also didn't feel so coldly impersonal as a large hospital. As he looked around he couldn't help but once again think that a specialty in medical engineering would be interesting. But he smiled to himself, knowing that he had too much of his father, the designer, in him to ever want to specialize such small scale.

"Are you alright there Ensign?" Jun asked as she came out from the surgical bay into the main part of sickbay and saw a young human standing there.

"Yes. Sorry." Zack smiled. "I was just admiring your sickbay. I'm Ensign Chandler. I'm here for my onboarding physical." He explained.

"Welcome onboard, take a seat and I'll make a start." Jun smiled and motioned to a biobed. She took a Padd out of her pocket and searched the manifest for Zach to bring up his medical file.

Zack did as instructed, taking a seat on the indicated bio bed. "Thank you." He continued to look around from his perch on the bio bed, then focused on the doctor. "It's nice to meet you Doctor..." He trailed off... realizing he'd either not been paying attention when it was given, or he hadn't been given a name.

Jun smiled slightly. "Jun Zhao." She replied, when his file came up she had a quick look through the medical notes. "How is your leg?" She asked noticing Zach had quite recently had a prosthetic fitted.

"Good." Zack smiled, then patted his right knee. "I've been told I have a pretty shapely knee." He teased, but then answered seriously, as he indicated his left leg. "It's finally settled. I was having some stump chaffing, but we finally got that sorted. Now as long as I don't try to over use it, there's no pain."

"Excellent." Jun said as she took up a medical tricorder and began some simple scans. "How is your movement with it in general?"

Zack shrugged. "It needs practice. But it's a step up from a drunk toddler. I'm going to be good friends with my physical therapist, as soon as I figure out who that is. Other than that, I'm actually in better shape now than I was at twenty."

"Any major change like that will take time to adapt too, did you have rejection issues with the bio-neural type of prosthesis?" Jun asked. There were much more advanced prosthetics available but Zack's seemed very 'old fashioned'

"Six times." Zack groaned. "I gave up, and went old school. It's not like I'm in security and need to run around a lot, so it's not so bad."

"You found a way to adapt to your circumstances and you have a good outlook on it, I think you're going to be just fine." Jun smiled, despite those circumstances Zack was in pretty good health.

Zack nodded his agreement. "So, do I pass?" He asked with a grin.

"One last scan." Jun replied. "I want you to make an appointment to see Lt Wyse, our chief counsellor and come back in a few days and we'll see about continuing your physio therapy."

Zack sat still so she could complete her scan. "Sounds good. I'll handle that as soon as we're done here."

"Then we're all done." Jun closed her medical tricorder and put it down on the accessory table beside it. "You're fit for duty."

Zack chuckled softly. "Good to know. Thanks for making that painless."

Jun laughed slightly. "We try our best here, I can't promise your physical therapy will be painless though."

Zack let out a melodramatic groan. "Don't remind me. I had a perfectly good case of denial going on. I'm not in security, I'm an engineer. I once got an actual paper cut and whined about it all day." He was smiling though. He stood up. "It was nice to meet you."

"And you, have a good day Ensign." Jun said, she turned to head back to her office to update Zacks medical database entry.




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LTjg Jun Zhao
Medical officer
Npc written by Taliserra.

Ens Zachary Chandler
Engineering Officer

 

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