Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Joseph Rainns (Incoming Chief of Security) in side-sim Holodeck Emergency Medicine

Posted by Cadet Sharah Fayth (Doctor) in side-sim Holodeck Emergency Medicine

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“Lets rock and roll” Rainns said, taking hold of the holographic pilot. Even though he knew the man wasn’t real, he felt a certain level of discomfort from hearing his screams. Afterward, he was told to make medicine for the guy, something he really had no interest in doing, but he wanted to help Sharah, so he persisted on. He crushed up several flowers and proceeded to get some water from the bank. After which he mixed the too together and fired a quick beam from the phaser to heat the mixture up. He smiled at himself. Memories of the biology labs he had gone threw in the Academy appearing in his mind, he had always hated those classes. “I believe this is complete.” He stated, looking at his concoction with skepticism.

Lt. JG Joseph Rainns- COS

“I know this isn’t your area, but I appreciate the help. The idea is that the program works for non-medical personnel in case of an emergency. I probably should have waited outside while you did it all,” She shrugged, “but today’s goal is to see if we can even complete to program.” She looked down at the concoction he had made. “It looks great, and it’s hot.” She grinned, and grabbed another strip of cloth. She used her hand to scoop the mixture onto the strip of cloth. “We put this around where the break was and his shoulder. It gets applied over where the pain is. If the wound was open we would have to be more careful not to get this inside the wound.” She placed the cloth with the compress over the broken area of the leg and then wrapped the cloth around the leg to keep it in place. She did the same thing to the shoulder that had been dislocated. “It can be made stronger by adding more of the flower to it, but it’s an anti-inflammatory so it will help with swelling and over stressed nerves, but not cut the pain like a narcotic pain reliever.” She sat back wiping her hands on one of the extra strips of cloth. “In a real situation we would need to change the compress at least every hour to help. Right now we wait till the computer decides if we did everything we were supposed to.” She tried to sit calmly. Rainns help had been huge, but she would wait for the computer before she would let herself celebrate.
Cadet Fayth, Doctor

Rainns sat back against the wrecked debris. “How long do you need to wait for?” he asked, picking up a small rock and tossing it up and down.

Lt. JG Joseph Rainns- COS

“The computer will determine how strong the compress is, how severe the injury and whether or not we found the correct plant, etc. This is the lowest difficulty of the program.” Sharah watched him toss the rock and admired his coordination. “If we had a medical tricorder we would already know, but again, that’s not standard and a scientific tricorder doesn’t give the amount of detail we need, so…we wait.” She looked over the pilot, he was quiet and didn’t seem to be in extreme amounts of pain, but setting the injuries, although painful at the time, the pain would ease naturally because the limbs were back in the correct place.
“Okay, so while we wait. How did you do that?” She pointed to the bowls. “I’m going to guess that most officers can do that with a phaser, or is just you are that skilled?” Sharah needed to write down exactly what he did and how and then determine if she needed to include it.

Cadet Fayth, Doctor

“I just cupped my hands around some clay, made the desired shape, set the phaser on its lowest setting and sort of..” Rainns paused and used air quotes, “baked”” it.” As he said this he continued to toss the rock.

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She looked a little exasperated. “I meant with the phaser. Would another officer know how to adjust the settings to use it to ‘bake’ the clay or heat the bowl without melting the whole thing?” Sharah had no idea. She was horrible with phasers, it really did drive her brother crazy. She couldn’t hit the broadside of a barn much less adjust it to do what Rainns had done.

While they were talking the computer announced, “SIMULATION COMPLETE. OBJECTIVE ACHIEVED.” Sharah’s face lit up. She had the urge to hug him. She stopped herself before she got up. “Thank you. I couldn’t have finished this without your help.” She stood up, “Computer end program, and give me the time.”
The holodeck turned back into the black and yellow grid. “TIME IS 1812 HOURS.” She glanced at Rainns sharing her thoughts, ‘I’m off duty and I want to celebrate.’
Cadet Fayth, Doctor