Posted by Cadet Johnathan Baptiste (Doctor) in Reporting for duty: Chief Medical Officer’s Office

Posted by Cadet P’Mala Dawes (Doctor) in Reporting for duty: Chief Medical Officer’s Office

Posted by Captain Grayson Rhodes (Commanding Officer) in Reporting for duty: Chief Medical Officer’s Office
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“Ah,” Dawes said, probably less kindly than she had intended–sometimes her intended tone did not come across as pleasantly as she’d intended.

Nurse Liu entered with the hypospray and Compression Attenuator on a metal tray.

“Thank you, Nurse,” Dawes said, dismissing the other woman.

She turned to the cadet Baptiste, and a little more kindly probed, “What happened?”

Again he started to fidget with the snow globe, turning it over and watching the faux snow slowly fall over the small reproduction of his home city, Nelson, BC. In a soft whisper, barely audible voice “Well, because I chose to do one last run I cut it close to the edge in getting ready to get to the local public transporter. I, well, I, uh, sort of kicked the hard wood floor at my parents home.” he sheepishly peered around the sick bay to see if anyone but Cadet Dawes, his attending physician, had over heard him. “I am pretty sure I fractured the Distal Phalange of my right greater toe. See, I am intimately familiar with breaking bones, especially when it comes to my right side of my body.” He again flipped the snow globe over and watched the faux snow fall slowly back to the top of the snow globe, to embarrassed to look Cadet Dawes in the eyes. “As we all know it wouldn’t look to well on oneself to report to their first duty assignment with an injury.” he replied sheepishly. He could feel his cheeks begin to flush with embarrassment. “So could we just fix my foot and keep this between ourselves? I would owe you a huge debt.”
-Cadet Johnathan Baptiste, medical

P’Mala Dawes demeanor softened. She placed the PADD face down on the counter and picked up the hypospray.

“Johnathan, this will help with the physical pain, and we’ll get to work on that toe,” she said. “And if you don’t go telling CMO Frankenstein, nobody but us has to know–of course I’ll have to say you had a headache or something to account for the hypospray.”

She touched the applicator to his forearm and pressed the trigger–the hypospray hissed its release.

“I understand how exciting and nerve-racking it can be to arrive on time. I was quite unsettled when I teleported aboard. I was surprised nobody was there to greet me and the effect was a little disorienting.”

She smiled just slightly. Hopefully her intentions of good faith and a sense of comraderie were coming across.

“Would you like me to remove your shoe, or would you like to do that yourself?” she asked.

-Cadet P’Mala Dawes

“Good Morning, Cadets,” Came a voice from behind P’Mala. Still far enough away that it wasn’t right behind her, but it was closing. If they looked around, they would see a man in the Red of the Command Staff with four pips on his collar stepping over to them. If they had read the ships files, the might recognize the ships Captain.

Stopping beside P’Mala with his hands behind his back, he smiled at the two of them. “How are we? Doing well? Got a problem with your foot?” Grayson asked, looking down at the Cadet who sitting on the beds, foot. He had been close enough to hear the last part of their conversation at least.

Captain Rhodes, CO

OOC: Hi! Don’t mind me.... just making my rounds lol. The two of you have done great in this thread, well done, and Shaun, as a Doctor you are totally able to clear him for active duty etc as part of his medical check-in, you don’t need to wait for the CMO to do that.

-Dave
Just as he was about to reach down and remove his footwear, Cadet Baptiste caught movement out of the corner of his eye; a distinguished man with short dark brown hair, flecked through with light gray, wearing the very visible red of Command, none other than his commanding officer and captain of the ship; Captain Rhodes. Oh merde, cassé thought Cadet Baptiste in French. Quickly switching his thoughts back to Federation Standard, he replied “Cadet Johnanthan Baptiste, Sir! I was reporting for duty and Cadet Dawes was kind enough to begin my physical. She noticed that I had injured myself and was just getting ready to assess my right greater distal phalange.” He replied, straightening to a sitting position of attention as the Captain stepped up and spoke. Might as well fess up to my injury and spare Cadet Dawes from having to lie to the CO thought Johnanthan,
-Cadet Johnanthan Baptiste, Medical
OCC: Thank you to both of you, I am finding this type of roleplaying both intriguing and enjoyable.
-Chris Huskins

Gray winced as he listened to Baptiste, his face visibly doing the ‘ouch’ expression. “Your, greater distal phalange?” He looked between the two of them. “Well that sounds impressively serious and painful!” Grayson clearly began to look at Baptistes leg or thigh, not his foot. The Captain had no idea what a distal phalange was and though it must have been a thigh bone or something, clearly.

P’Mala Dawes gave the captain a swift salute. She was grateful for Cadet Baptiste for speaking up–the Vulcan part of her brain chided an I-told-you-so.

“Captain,” she greeted. “We haven’t finished looking at this foot, not just yet,” she said, continuing her attention toward the medical tricorder in her hand.

She sweeped it over the cadet’s foot, then zeroed in on his toe. “Very interesting,” she said. “It doesn’t seem like you broke the thing, but there is significant bruising and some soft tissue damage.”

She picked up her PADD and typed in a few notes, editing the headache she’d previously entered into a soft tissue trauma, right foot, toe.

OOC: A small note here, and I will admit I skimmed the earlier posts and didn’t read them thoroughly as I was catching up what was happening. In STF one of our things is we don’t ‘Auto’ another persons character or what is happening (or has happened) to that character. It can be a fine line at times with what goes on but basically, if someone says something like they have a broken toe, then unless they stated somewhere that it wasn’t actually broken, it’s broken. We can’t change it into a bruise kind of thing. Does that make sense? We can’t assign injuries or symptoms that they haven’t said they have, or don’t go with what they say they have. Feel free to ask for clarification if this doesn’t make sense, that’s why we are here.

In the same way, if I am writing that I am looking for, say, the CMO then I cannot say I walk into her office looking for her, and see her behind her desk if she hasn’t said previously that that is where she is. I can’t place her there as that is auto’ing her character for her and she may introduce her character as walking in the door behind you, for example. It’s a small thing, and can be confusing at first but it’s pretty simple when you have done it for a bit. Sometimes you might plan a story with someone via email and it may make sense in your story to place a character somewhere, but that is an exception.

“Is your hypospray taking effect yet?” she asked. “As for the phalange, we could either use the old fashioned method of taping your bruised toe to its neighbor and putting you in a boot for a week, or Nurse Liu can bring me a Dermal Regenerator and have you elevate your leg for about an hour. Your choice.”

-Cadet P’Mala Dawes

OOC: Thanks, y’all–I’m enjoying RPing with ya! -Shaun

Cadet Baptiste replied to Cadet Dawes question “Why yes, the Terakine Hypospray, I assume that is what you gave me, seems to be working just fine. I would however recommend you readjust the settings on the medical tricorder. See because of the seriousness of my previous injuries from my skiing mishap, medical tricorders kind of get wonky with diagnosing fractures in my right leg, has something to do with the experimental procedures they used to save my leg. I also agree that the old-fashioned tape the toe to the other toe is a great idea, but I think we can dispense with the boot, the minor discomfort would do me some good to remind me to be more mindful of my actions. “
-Cadet Johnathan Baptiste, medical

OOC: Hey Chris, I have a suggestion with your post style. You are doing absolutely nothing wrong and if you don’t want to do this, it’s just fine haha. I would suggest breaking up your posts slightly like Shaun and I are doing, putting a line space in between natural breaks in the text. Like this:

There are a couple of reasons this can help, one, is that white text on a black background can be a struggle to read for some people at times and breaking the text up can help reduce eye-strain.

Two, is that it gives other writers a natural place to add some text to contribute to the story with their characters reactions or thoughts, as you can see how I did above with Grayson reacting to the greater distal phalange comment. This is especially helpful if there are more than two writers involved and one person wants to react to something higher up where other people replied. Like I said, you aren’t required to and you are doing absolutely fine, but it’s just a small tip to help out. I’m really enjoying your character by the way, I’m not sure I’ve seen someone do their check-in with a busted toe before!

P’Mala picked up the medical tricorder and swept it over Cadet Baptiste’s right foot, this time much more carefully. The tricorder confirmed what Johnathan had said–the toe was indeed broken.

“My apologies, Cadet Baptiste, Captain,” she said quite ruefully. “I should have slowed down, paid closer attention as to what was right in front of my face.”

She touched her comm badge.

=^= Nurse Liu, can you bring a toe splint kit to Intake C, please.”

IC: “His toe?” Grayson said with a slight raise to his eyebrow and a half smirk on his lips. “That’s what a greater distal phalange is? A toe?” Looking between the two of them, he glanced at the Cadet’s foot, and then back to the two of them again. “That is an awfully big word for, a little thing.” His clipped English accent sounded like a mix between relieved and disappointed.

“So tell me, Cadet, how exactly did you do that?” It was likely that Baptiste had explained it already, sure, but Gray found a modicum of humour in asking him to repeat it to the Captain.

Captain Rhodes, CO

Cadet Baptiste sighed inwardly and thought in French Icinous y retournons, il est temps de faire face à la musique, damn it he need to remember to start thinking in Federation Standard he thought. This happens ever time I go and visit with my parents, why must they always insist we speak in French? he thought distractedly, realizing the Captain was waiting for a response to his question Cadet Baptiste replied “Well you see sir, I accidently kicked the hard wood floor at my parents house as I was rushing to get ready to get to the local transporter to report to duty. See, I am an avid skier and snowboarder and I could not resist one more trip down the slopes before reporting to duty, and well I sort of lost track of time, and had to rush things.” There I told the CO what happened, perhaps I will not get into to much trouble for injuring myself before reporting to duty he thought.
Cadet Johnathan Baptiste, medical
OCC: Thank you for the advice, I will practice this, I have years of experience in “traditional” roleplaying, but this is my first time with this type. I thought it would be interesting to have my character enter with a minor issue. Thank you to both for the help, and Shaun, thanks for roleplaying with me, I think I gave you an out in my responses this time.
-Chris Huskins

“Oh! You, kicked the floor?” Gray said but any expression on his face was neutral and didn’t betray any thoughts in his head. “Ouch!”

Nurse Liu entered with the splint kit.

“Cadet, we can begin the proceedure whenever you’re ready” P’Mala said. “That is, if you and the Captain are ready.”

-Cadet P’Mala Dawes

OOC: Thank you for your patience with me! One thing I tried here was to “snip” some of the oldest posts in this thread because it was getting quite long to scroll through.

OOC: Nicely done, you can feel free to snip a bit more than you did. It takes practice to get a feel, but as long as relevant information is still there to the people in the thread, you can often trim quite a bit.

“I am ready when you are, unless Captain Rhodes has any further questions?” replied Cadet Baptiste. Smiling at Cadet Dawes he said “My right leg and the right side of my head, in particular my right ear, is a medical conundrum for most Medical Tricorders and non-seasoned doctors. See the skiing accident I had required specialized and experimental treatments to both allow me to keep my leg and to prevent me from being deaf in my right ear. I am the first Human to receive a cybernetic inner ear vertebrate outside of an Andorian. As for the experimental bone repairs you would need to talk to Dr. Kalabhiti for a full explanation of what they did.”
-Cadet Johnathan Baptiste, medical

OCC: Cool, will need to learn how to snip.
-Chris Huskins

IC: “Well, on that note and with that many big medical words, it’s time for me to continue my rounds,” the Captain smirked at the two cadets good naturedly. “All of that injury sounds impressive but, the big guns at Starfleet Academy clearly had no issue and accepted you for service so, who am I to disagree. Look after your toe, Cadet, and well done, both of you. I’m looking forward to seeing you around the ship in future, good day!”

With a nod to both of them, Grayson moved to step away from the bed and continue his inspection of the medical bay.

Captain Rhodes, CO

OOC: Chris, if you feel up to it the new Engineering DH has begun his medical check-in. Feel free to pick him up and do his medical, he and I will keep an eye and help out if you need it, but you are doing great. Here is the thread if you want it - https://www.star-fleet.com/core/acad/challenger/posts/171548/

Just remember to reply to the last post in the thread if the someone else posts etc

-Dave

“Captain!” P’Mala saluted, then turned to Cadet Baptiste.

“Johnathan, let’s start the healing process with the Compression Attenuator and get your foot taped up. Then I’ll officially clear you for duty.”

P’Mala knelt to the floor and started using the device to mend the break. “Let me know if you’re feeling any discomfort.”

-Cadet P’Mala Dawes

Cadet Baptiste smiled “Thank you Captain, but I hope I do not have to see you as a patient, and I am sure I am in capable hands with Cadet Dawes; after all Star Fleet selects and trains only the best.” Returning his attention to Cadet Dawes “Okay let’s get this ball rolling, no need to worry about the discomfort, I deserve a reminder of my clumsiness.”

-Cadet Jonathan Baptiste, medical

“The Hippocratic Oath: First, do no harm,” she said, wrapping the wood splint in gauze to prevent blistering between the big toe and its neighbor. She placed the wrapped splint between the two toes gently and taped the offending phalange with stability and enough looseness to be flexible.

“How does that feel? Not too punishing, I hope.”

-Cadet P’Mala Dawes