Posted by Ensign Fraiser Flynn (Security Officer) in Side Sim: Flynns Physical Evaluation

Posted by Lieutenant Commander Satreya Boja (Chief Medical Officer) in Side Sim: Flynns Physical Evaluation

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“As would anyone,” Boja said with a slight smile as she grabbed a hypo and showed it to him. “I’m going to give you a dose of bicaridine before I start healing the fractures. It should make it less painful because I’ll have to move your fingers. You’ll have a follow-up dose later and we’ll see how it goes.”

Flynn nodded in acknowledgement, eyeing the medication wearily. “Do what you have to doc,”

She waited for his acknowledgement before injecting the medicine.

Focusing her ebony eyes on the task at hand, Satreya slipped her hand very gently under his so that when she was ready she could position the fingers in the correct position as she healed them. “This will hurt momentarily, but it should be less than it would have been without the analgesic,” she said with an encouraging smile.

Despite the doctors gentle touch, Flynn tensed when their skin made contact. He wasn’t afraid of a little pain, but he was acutely aware that the physical contact would strengthen Boja’s ability to sense his emotions.

It depended entirely on the awareness of the person she treated whether they would feel the distinct energy she emitted, and it was often strongest when in direct contact. But still some never noticed it at all. In this case, her intense focus on carefully stretching out the finger slowly as the osteo-regenerator knit the fracture closed. And yet, she was still able to converse.

“Did you know that medicine is like a little mystery game. It reveals all sorts of things that if you pay attention close enough, reveal situations and circumstances as they relly are and not what others wish them to be.”

Boja, CMO

Flynn couldn’t help the cold that spiked in him and he focused intently on the muffled pain in his fingers to try and hide it. His eyes had been flickering between watching what the CMO was doing to his hands, and her face, but now his eyes reseted souly on her face. “Really?” he asked causally, giving her one of his charming smiles, even though he knew it would be pointless “If that’s the case why aren’t more doctors detectives?”

Ens. Flynn
Security

“Who says they aren’t?” Boja said casually. “But if all doctors took up the work of those in security and constabularies, well, who would do all the healing?” she added with a smirk. Finishing with the first finger, she then moved to the next, monitoring his pain with her empathy to make sure she took a break if needed. Not all patients would say they needed one and would suffer needlessly.

“But, after awhile on the job, you learn lots of things. For example, I can tell the difference between a compression fracture and an impact fracture. See, compression fractures would bruise quite distinctly on both sides of the afflicted area, like a finger caught in something. But it that same finger collided with something, well, it shows as a difference sort of damage to the surrounding tissues.” She paused from her work to look up at him. “Not that you can’t have bruises on both sides, but it’s… different.” She went back to her work.

Boja, CMO