The new doctor with blue skin

Posted on Tue Sep 20th, 2016 @ 7:31am by Commander Bertrand Cuprum & Captain Elijah Michaels & Lieutenant Sara'draphia T'eseri

Mission: Do Not Follow
Location: Sickbay

ON:

Elijah and Bertrand had finished their business with their 'visitors' and now was time to reflect on what had happened. They had lots of wounded and injured and it seemed good for Morale if they visited Sickbay. Of course this meant re-connecting with the saucer section. As soon as that was achieved they hurried to the Medical area.

The two men entered Sickbay to the sight of every single bed full, some using the Offices for Triage and some in the corners of Sickbay. "Bloody Hell."

Hurrying between patients, Sara was doing her best to keep on top of things. Starting her scans in the new patient, she started reading out what she was seeing to a nurse, "2nd degree burns, two fractured ribs, no internal bleeding. Blue level priority. Give him painkillers for now, he can wait" Sara said before handing off the tricorder to the nurse and moving off.

Spotting the two men standing just inside the door, one of the nurses walked over to them, "Can I help you, sirs?"

"No," Betrand muttered rolling up his mustard sleeves, exposing his bionic right arm, "but I think we can help you. I have advanced first aid. Where do you need us?"

"Where is Doctor Kelly?" Elijah asked the Nurse.

The Nurse pointed to a Bio bed in the far corner. The Doctor laying there under the care of the medical staff.

"Alright, so who is running Sickbay?" He asked.

"That new doctor who came in with the last lot of transfers. Dr Terri or something like that, I've only met her once outside of this mess," the nurse said before looking around sickbay, "there, that's her. The one with blue skin and tentacles for hair" she said, motioning to Sara who was busy working on a badly injured engineer.

"Thank you." Elijah nodded.

"Haar'chak, I can't get this bleeding under control" Sara said, elbow deep in the mans abdomen, "get me another unit of t-type blood, this is going to take longer than I thought. How could I have missed it? Gar Utreekov!"

Bertrand stepped in quickly, "I can clamp it while you work."

He pinched the severed artery tight close with his fake arm. His face was a mask of professionalism as he closed down to all the emotion that flowed around him, threatening to drown him in the shared pain of a dozen people. He didn't look at the patient's face. It was better not to make any connection at these times.

Not saying anything, Sara just got straight to work. Normally she would straight up thank whoever was assisting her, but right now she didn't have the time. After ten minuets or work, Sara had manage to repair most of the damage and was able to take the artery off of Bertrand's hands, "thank you Commander" she said, noticing the rank on his collar, "so are you here to tell me that my staff won't be getting any rest any time soon?"

Bertrand wiped his forehead looking around, "We'll reach Starbase in three days. Good news is the shooting seems to have stopped so this is your peek time."

"Well that'll good to hear. I can start letting some of my staff get some sleep" Sara said, reattaching the last few severed blood vessels and close up the engineers wound.

He noticed one of the figures on a temporary gurney near the door to the Doctor's office, "Captain. I found Commander Bartlett."

He crossed quickly over to the XO, lying unconscious. He picked up the PADD that had been placed on her, and skimmed it, "Borderline dehydration, concussion, several breaks, some radiation damage." He looked up at the Captain, "She's not going to be up and about any time soon."

"I'm afraid she wasn't a high priority case when she came in" Sara said, walking over to the biobed the XO was laying on and bringing up the display. "If I could get the two of you to step back, I'll begin treating the radiation damage" she said, triggering the biobed, closing the arches over her.

After a moment, Sara sighed, "well it looks like Commander Cuprum's analysis is quite correct. It's going to take me a few treatments to heal all of these injuries, and that's just the damage from the radiation."

Bertrand flashed an angry look at the Captain, "one word, just one word about me needing a red uniform and they will need another bed for you and cell for me."

"I didn't say a word......." Elijah said to Bertrand, knowing fully well his reluctance and distain at such a thought.

Turning back to the doctor he said, "When we put in at the Starbase we will offload the majority of the wounded. Anyone who isn't stable, or is still in a serious enough state that they need some time off. That'll probably amount to two thirds of the remaining crew, but it is going to take some weeks for the ship to be up to spec again anyway."

He glanced back to the recumbent form of Doctor Kelly, then to the new medical officer, "That may mean you will be acting CMO for as long as I am acting XO. Any issues with that?"

"Well as I'm the only qualified doctor left, I don't seem to have a choice in the matter. So, no, i don't have any issues with taking over sickbay, however short it may be"

"Very well I shall update the Logs and Records to correspond with such a change." Elijah said with a nod. "We best leave to your work Doctor, if you need anything let us know,"

"Will do. Now if you will excuse me" Sara said, diving back into her work.

OFF:

Captain Elijah Michaels
Commanding Officer

Lt Cmdr Bertrand Cuprum
AXO, CTO

Lieutenant Sara'draphia T'eseri
Medical Officer