<snip>

“No, you’re right, I’m not being fair,” Brad said. “It’s just, this ship is also currently hosting Dr. Jasper Jarvis,” he added, pausing to let the name sink in. “So falsely accused or not, and I’m perfectly willing to believe you there, understand that I’m not thrilled at being assigned another physician with a cloud over their record.”

McNair (Trauma/Emergency Med)

Lt. Cmdr. Dr. Brad Walker
Chief of Staff

James could have sighed with relief grateful that someone was willing to believe him. He managed to stifle this though and nodded. He vaguely recalled the name when looking over the roster of Doctors on the ship. James nodded at the Commander’s comment.
“I understand. I won’t let you down. I vaguely remember reading something about Jarvis. Wasn’t he caught doing something illegal on some backwater planet or something?” He asked curiously.

McNair (Trauma/Emergency Med)

“Experimentation on sentients at a scale not seen since the Eugenics Wars,” Brad said flatly. “But some utter buffoon in the Admiralty thinks his skills are too valuable to waste on the infirmary of a penal colony, so Command has him on parole on this ship. Thankfully, our Chief of Surgery is keeping him out of the operating suites, for now, but I have no doubt that he’ll worm his way into one the first chance he gets, and then it’s going to be a scramble drill to make sure he didn’t do anything… extra.”

Lt. Cmdr. Dr. Brad Walker
Chief of Staff

OOC: Apologies!

IC:
James listened intently to the commander’s reply. He was slightly concerned that a person was allowed to get away with experimenting on people. He had taken an oath to do no harm and however intrigued he was about anatomy of other sentients he would never experiment on live subjects.
“How could someone do such a thing to another living being I’ll never know. He was lucky to get away with what he did with his career fairly intact. Although I always found surgeons to have an “above the law” and arrogant attitude. ” James commented trying to mask his distaste of surgeons.

“Oh, he didn’t get out of it, he spent several years in a penal colony. But some counselor got it into his head that he’s grown a moral compass and understands what he did was wrong, and got him paroled and put into the fleet,” Brad said.

James nodded and sighed.
“Counselors eh?” He replied with a smirk.

McNair (Trauma/Emergency med)

“Now, for you, I see you specialize in trauma cases and emergency medicine. Does that include a surgical qualification of your own?”

Lt. Cmdr. Dr. Brad Walker
Chief of Staff

James nodded again.
“Aye, but I’m not really a surgeon. I can do the basics and patch people up but for anything more complex you’ll need a proper surgeon. I’ve always preferred medicine, I find surgery can be so linear sometimes.” He replied trying to hide the distaste in his voice when he mentioned surgeons. He had dealt with a few in his time and he had always found them arrogant. James knew that, that was a generalisation and he tried not let it get in the way of his professionalism it was just an observation he had made over the years of practising medicine.
“What is your speciality Commander?” He asked Brad out of curiosity.

Com

“By training, an internist,” Brad replied. “But my last job was Head of Diagnostics at Starfleet Medical. I like a good puzzle, and two postings out on the Federation frontier had given me plenty to solve.”

McNair (Emergency medicine/Trauma)

Lt. Cmdr. Dr . Brad Walker
Chief of Staff