Speaking of which--do you know anything about medical education here? I certainly don't plan on staying here long enough to re-earn my medical degree but I would like a backup plan.
Do you have access to medical facilities or tools? Medications? The technology here appears far more primitive than what I'm used to but I have specifically trained to have less to work with at hand. I am trained in both medicine and surgery.
I also do research and one of my interests is biochemical changes associated with physiology. I would certainly be able to design a study looking at that. Again though, it all comes back to what facilities and technology we have available to us.
Most education here is hands on, with classes and modules to push you through. You also need a lot of training and internships. I'm sorry, you're going to have to start with the basics. I know you can test out of some classes, especially if you think this world is more primitive.
We have access to medical facilities in the safehouse under the garage, and I believe we could add more to what's available under Red Wings (which is more of a backup safehouse). There's a mediunit there, as well as a pretty good setup for most medication. Anything we can't handle ourselves we go to actual hospitals for, so that's broken bones and the like. Some of us can heal, as well, though we haven't done a count on it recently. We're planning on one.
Unfortunately, any additional facilities for the research we need would have to come through getting access to a lab. We've had talk of setting up one ourselves, but that's beyond the scope of our financial capabilities. I know that Giles Bell and its subsidiaries would be looking for someone talented, as long as you can multitask. Something tells me that the work they'd ask you to do would be easy enough to give you that chance.
I'll see what I can do about officially obtaining my license to practice here. As you can imagine, I'm not really wanting to think I'll be here long enough for that.
I'm sorry, would you mind explaining what a mediunit is? As far as medications go, I do also have experience in designing new drugs as the need arose. It will be a lot more difficult without the equipment I'm used to, but I'll look for ways to do it.
I can certainly multitask.
[Being an Augmented human with processing likened to that of a computer certainly helps.]
I'll look into that. I'd been needing to look into a day job here anyway. Thank you, Clarke.
Also, I read the primer that's meant for new people here--thank you for contributing to that by the way--but what of any non-humans that require medical attention outside of our scope? What would the locals do or how do you think they would react?
As it is, the medi-unit is a piece of technology that can bring the dead back as long as you know the moment of their death down to the second. It can also help someone recover from severe injuries, such as spinal injuries and the like. And the head needs to be intact.
In terms of the non-humans, it's mostly been me and Stephen, as well as anyone who's turned up and disappeared. I'm not under that category, but I have blood alteration. So, for all I tell people to seek medical care, I basically am my own medical care.
You can guess why we need more doctors on hand, though. I was only an apprentice before life changed things a bit.
I can safely say I've never used a piece of equipment like that. That's incredible.
You've mentioned "Stephen" a couple of times. Who exactly is he? I'm assuming a medic or doctor of some sort?
Your blood...how is it different? You won't have to be your own medical care from now on. I just need as much information as I can get. In terms of non-humans, you're both free to refer them to me.
At this time, we need anyone with any training. I can teach you as well as the need arises.
Frankly, it might be the single most powerful piece of technology here. Unfortunately, there aren't enough to deal with some of the crises that've happened since we first turned up.
Stephen is a former neurosurgeon, but because of the state of his hands, he's pretty limited.
A woman in my world developed an altered blood that could help someone withstand the effects of radiation. Over time, someone can deal with mass amounts of radiation with little to no damage to their person, but it's more gradual than immediate. She developed it in part to help various exploratory missions to planets with multiple suns, if only because it might turn out that they were otherwise uninhabitable. It was meant to be a temporary solution, but it does act as a non-dominant trait that can be passed on to future generations. I wasn't born this way, though. I became a Nightblood (that's what we call this condition) when we tried to remake the blood. [She debates adding that she was the second and last test subject, but deletes the words away.]
I'd appreciate the training. Most courses here are less hands on due to the digital nature of the world. [And Stephen basically told her "no" when she, a spry young eighteen year old (at the time), requested help there. Thanks Stephen.]
He has critical care knowledge due to being a neurosurgeon, so he must be very helpful when triaging at the very least.
...That's incredible. A blood that can prevent radiation poisoning? That would be quite useful where I'm from as well. Do you know anything about the components of Nightblood, though? That might give me better insight into how your physiology may differ. Clearly your blood doesn't have hemoglobin in it. Perhaps a different valence of iron?
I'd be happy to have more skilled hands and having some of the practical knowledge to begin with is helpful.
Of course he does. Stephen helps where he can. He's certainly more experienced than I've ever been.
I can give you some notes on Nightblood, though most of its recent development was only while I led the project itself. I don't know as much as my mother would, for instance. I'm willing to undergo tests. A lot of the knowledge we had was lost because of an apocalyptic event in my world, and we had to improvise and experiment to come up with the serum itself again.
I'd love to take a look at those sometime. Hopefully I can get access to laboratory equipment at some point and then we can talk about getting more samples.
My pleasure. It can only help to have more people trained.
Feel free to reach out to him whenever you'd like. You can say I sent you. I don't think he'll have much luck turning you away.
[Sometimes Stephen's ego can get the best of him when someone offers to help, but Julian's already proved that he's competent in just a few replies.]
I'll provide samples when it's time. For what it's worth, passing the solution from one person to another also involves their bone marrow. I would rather not undergo an extraction, but I understand it comes to that.
[Because this is just a thing that happens in her world.]
The limiting factor right now is me, considering I don't have access to the equipment I need. I'm going to take a guess that our people don't have a covert laboratory with the type of advanced equipment I'd use to analyze a blood specimen.
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Speaking of which--do you know anything about medical education here? I certainly don't plan on staying here long enough to re-earn my medical degree but I would like a backup plan.
Do you have access to medical facilities or tools? Medications? The technology here appears far more primitive than what I'm used to but I have specifically trained to have less to work with at hand. I am trained in both medicine and surgery.
I also do research and one of my interests is biochemical changes associated with physiology. I would certainly be able to design a study looking at that. Again though, it all comes back to what facilities and technology we have available to us.
I'm happy to help in any way I can.
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Most education here is hands on, with classes and modules to push you through. You also need a lot of training and internships. I'm sorry, you're going to have to start with the basics. I know you can test out of some classes, especially if you think this world is more primitive.
We have access to medical facilities in the safehouse under the garage, and I believe we could add more to what's available under Red Wings (which is more of a backup safehouse). There's a mediunit there, as well as a pretty good setup for most medication. Anything we can't handle ourselves we go to actual hospitals for, so that's broken bones and the like. Some of us can heal, as well, though we haven't done a count on it recently. We're planning on one.
Unfortunately, any additional facilities for the research we need would have to come through getting access to a lab. We've had talk of setting up one ourselves, but that's beyond the scope of our financial capabilities. I know that Giles Bell and its subsidiaries would be looking for someone talented, as long as you can multitask. Something tells me that the work they'd ask you to do would be easy enough to give you that chance.
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I'm sorry, would you mind explaining what a mediunit is? As far as medications go, I do also have experience in designing new drugs as the need arose. It will be a lot more difficult without the equipment I'm used to, but I'll look for ways to do it.
I can certainly multitask.
[Being an Augmented human with processing likened to that of a computer certainly helps.]
I'll look into that. I'd been needing to look into a day job here anyway. Thank you, Clarke.
Also, I read the primer that's meant for new people here--thank you for contributing to that by the way--but what of any non-humans that require medical attention outside of our scope? What would the locals do or how do you think they would react?
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As it is, the medi-unit is a piece of technology that can bring the dead back as long as you know the moment of their death down to the second. It can also help someone recover from severe injuries, such as spinal injuries and the like. And the head needs to be intact.
In terms of the non-humans, it's mostly been me and Stephen, as well as anyone who's turned up and disappeared. I'm not under that category, but I have blood alteration. So, for all I tell people to seek medical care, I basically am my own medical care.
You can guess why we need more doctors on hand, though. I was only an apprentice before life changed things a bit.
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You've mentioned "Stephen" a couple of times. Who exactly is he? I'm assuming a medic or doctor of some sort?
Your blood...how is it different? You won't have to be your own medical care from now on. I just need as much information as I can get. In terms of non-humans, you're both free to refer them to me.
At this time, we need anyone with any training. I can teach you as well as the need arises.
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Stephen is a former neurosurgeon, but because of the state of his hands, he's pretty limited.
A woman in my world developed an altered blood that could help someone withstand the effects of radiation. Over time, someone can deal with mass amounts of radiation with little to no damage to their person, but it's more gradual than immediate. She developed it in part to help various exploratory missions to planets with multiple suns, if only because it might turn out that they were otherwise uninhabitable. It was meant to be a temporary solution, but it does act as a non-dominant trait that can be passed on to future generations. I wasn't born this way, though. I became a Nightblood (that's what we call this condition) when we tried to remake the blood. [She debates adding that she was the second and last test subject, but deletes the words away.]
I'd appreciate the training. Most courses here are less hands on due to the digital nature of the world. [And Stephen basically told her "no" when she, a spry young eighteen year old (at the time), requested help there. Thanks Stephen.]
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He has critical care knowledge due to being a neurosurgeon, so he must be very helpful when triaging at the very least.
...That's incredible. A blood that can prevent radiation poisoning? That would be quite useful where I'm from as well. Do you know anything about the components of Nightblood, though? That might give me better insight into how your physiology may differ. Clearly your blood doesn't have hemoglobin in it. Perhaps a different valence of iron?
I'd be happy to have more skilled hands and having some of the practical knowledge to begin with is helpful.
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I can give you some notes on Nightblood, though most of its recent development was only while I led the project itself. I don't know as much as my mother would, for instance. I'm willing to undergo tests. A lot of the knowledge we had was lost because of an apocalyptic event in my world, and we had to improvise and experiment to come up with the serum itself again.
And thanks, Julian. I appreciate it.
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I'd love to take a look at those sometime. Hopefully I can get access to laboratory equipment at some point and then we can talk about getting more samples.
My pleasure. It can only help to have more people trained.
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[Sometimes Stephen's ego can get the best of him when someone offers to help, but Julian's already proved that he's competent in just a few replies.]
I'll provide samples when it's time. For what it's worth, passing the solution from one person to another also involves their bone marrow. I would rather not undergo an extraction, but I understand it comes to that.
[Because this is just a thing that happens in her world.]
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We're a long way off from that. I'll simply look at the peripheral blood first.
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[She realizes that this makes Stephen sound worse than he is, but he has his moods.]
But that's a relief. I don't think we'll need to worry about replicating it for a while yet.
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To be quite honest, I'd like to avoid anything as invasive as a bone marrow biopsy.
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[Stephen has become more humble, at least with regards to her. It probably helps that she got a literal glow up by six years to help out a bit.]
I'll agree on the marrow biopsy. But sometimes things can get pretty desperate back home.
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The limiting factor right now is me, considering I don't have access to the equipment I need. I'm going to take a guess that our people don't have a covert laboratory with the type of advanced equipment I'd use to analyze a blood specimen.
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The latter might be more feasible.
[Clarke doesn't have any quibbles about "breaking the law" in this world because money is stupid.]
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I'm not sure I'm entirely comfortable with that plan.
[Julian does not feel that stealing expensive laboratory equipment upholds Starfleet values, despite his good intentions for the equipment.]
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[Because she'd ask Loki to do it.]
It's something we need. You know that as well as I do.
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[ He hates this. ]
Is there no other way? No other grants we could apply for? Do things like that even exist?
Although my lack of any credentialing here would be a hindrance to that...
[ He really hates this. ]
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But I'll look into legal avenues.
[She'll try.]
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[ Moral crisis averted for now. ]
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[She has her doubts that it'll work, but what the good doctor doesn't know won't hurt him.]
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