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Who: Jennifer Keller and you
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: N/A
When: August 20th

Since it seems like the Iskaulit is going to be staying with us for a while, I'm kicking around the idea of converting a room or two into a medical clinic of sorts. Since not every ship has a medbay, it'd be useful for people on those ships to have another option, or for people who want a bit more privacy if they need a checkup or to get an injury looked at.

I know our medics are stretched pretty thin, though. Would this idea be feasible? I'm not sure, but I though it was worth bringing up anyway.

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No problem.

We could leave a guide for extremely basic medical care, along with those supplies. Not sure how we could keep anything locked up, but that's an option too.

I could offer first aid lessons, too- I had to do that back home, since sometimes people would get injured and have to patch themselves up until a medical team could get to them.

My first thought was keeping more dangerous drugs and such in ship medbays, but that would be a logistics nightmare if the people with the keys weren't around... plus there would be transport time to factor in.

I'm sure a lot of people would appreciate that.

Don't think there's a better option, if we can't lock things up safely. [His blood would work better in this situation, but he's not keen on volunteering it.] I think we've got willing people, but there's a lot to think about before we can get this up and running.

I think I'll do that even if this clinic idea falls through. If there's ever a time of crisis, I know it helps to have something to do.

Yeah, unless we can somehow get locked cabinets. And even then, locks can be picked, keys can be lost, or people with a key can be at the wrong place at the wrong time. But things like that are why I asked the network, because I know I can't think of everything myself.

Nor do we expect you to. I'd like to help out with this, and having some sort of clinical facility would be great. We may just need to get everyone together and hash out funding sources, what types of medicine we can offer, when we can see people, how we'd schedule appointments, and so forth.

It's not quite like running an interfaith space, where the room's unlocked all the time and I check on the tea cart once a day or so.

You're right- it's going to take some coordination and cooperation. I feel like we could pull it off, though- even if it's something as simple as having the equivalent of first-aid stations that have some basic wound care supplies and training people in their use.

True- that's the kind of thing that doesn't require a lot of supervision.

The lessons would be a good start. Sometimes, simple stuff can do a lot of good for everyone.

Nor does it cost a lot of money. Once the furniture's been bought, it's mostly replenishing the tea cart - and every ship's got a green tea dispenser.

And people like being able to do something in an emergency. If they can help tend the wounded and let the medics focus on the worst cases, it can be a big morale boost.

True- and there's always sponsors to give you crates of exotic new tea flavors.

It would free us up from the minor cases too.

"Exotic" being the key word. Tea's one of my favorites, but even I can't take pomegranate black currant or whatever's passing for trendy these days.

Exactly. So if nothing else, I'll at least be offering first aid lessons to anyone willing to learn.

:) I'm just reminded of the banana coffee Beverly got. Maybe they'd send coffee-flavored tea.

Don't give them ideas!!

If I get a crate - and I doubt it, because my ratings can't be that high - I just want something that tastes normal. Not cinnamon chai. Not pomegranate green tea. Plain black is more than okay.

I doubted my ratings were all that great, but I've gotten gifts before. Like a case of watery beer- that was fun. And a swimsuit shaped like a mermaid tail for the beach.

Sounds like sponsor gifts, alright. I haven't gotten anything yet, but it only sounds like a matter of time.

Especially since they see that we're going to be making use of the Iskaulit. They'll want to "help" in any way they can.

Or maybe not, if that'll boost ratings.

Sorry, I'm still not sure why people would want to sponsor us to begin with.

Yeah, I don't really get the appeal of our show either, but apparently whoever's out there likes it.

You'd think they'd have better taste in television...

You'd think so, but then again, people back home liked even trashier reality shows. So I'm not surprised, even if I don't get why we're so interesting.

I figure, they wouldn't keep us if we were boring.

Doesn't make me judge our audience any less. Don't they have math tests to finish???

Yeah, I have to wonder who- or what- our audience is composed of sometimes. Humans? Some species we've never heard of before? Both? I'm not in any area of space I recognize and have yet to meet any species I know of from back home, so it's hard to know for sure.

Edited 2015-09-05 15:42 (UTC)

You've got more experience than me. I've never left Earth before, so our audience is a complete mystery.

Even if they're not from any part of space we'd recognize, they've got better things to do. I'd hope.

I've been to a few other planets in my time, but admittedly, what I know of most other species is piecemeal from the experiences of others. Still, going into the great unknown isn't really my style.

You'd think so... but they seem to have a lot of time on their hands.

I imagine it wouldn't be most people's. Were you assigned to a specific sector?

Sure seems that way.

I worked in the lost city of Atlantis, believe it or not- if your world has that legend, anyway. It wasn't exactly lost, it just flew to another galaxy.

I've heard stranger.

Was it any different from the legends?

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