Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Haadok (Chief Medical Officer) in Sickbay - Ensign Alwyn Yarwood check-in on the USS Sentinel

Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Haadok (Chief Medical Officer) in Sickbay - Ensign Alwyn Yarwood check-in on the USS Sentinel

Posted by Ensign Alwyn Yarwood (Medical Doctor) in Sickbay - Ensign Alwyn Yarwood check-in on the USS Sentinel
Posted by… suppressed (3) by the Post Ghost! 👻
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“The pleasure is mine, Mr. Skahlem. I’ll need your permission to touch your abdomen in order to verify his shape and so you can describe the pain to me.” It might old schools to the patient, especially when they were in a sickbay, full of instruments and scanners, but sometimes the best methods are the simplest. Alwyn might find the problem without doing a scan, and they might find the cause faster.

Trying to relieve his patient’s visible stress, he added: “You don’t need to worry, I’ll go easy on you.”

Doctor Alwyn Yarwood - Ensign

“What makes you think I’m worried?” Skahlem grumbled, leaning into the bulkhead. He didn’t sense a threat in the kid, but the urge to quarrel was harder to subdue with nausea and cramps that felt like he’d been impaled with a 9 inch shard of duranium alloy. Today wasn’t his finest day. Skahlem wrinkled his nose and slowly retracted his hands. “Do what you must,” he huffed in an impatient tusk-jabbing gesture at his abdomen, “but make it quick. Please.”

— NE Skahlem

“Alright then”, says the doctor while putting on a pair of gloves. “Just sit back and relax.” Trying not to rush the process, he put his hands on Skahlem’s abdomen firmly, but gently. He didn’t want the man to suffer and hoped he quickly found the problem.

Skahelm gritted his teeth, staring intently at a spot on the ceiling. “Relax…” he flinched when Alwyn touched his lower abdomen where he might find a soft bulge that shifted under his hand, “ow! What happened to easy?”

“Is this a regular problem to you ?”, inquired Alwyn. While providing him with important information on the problems, the main goal of the question was to provide a distraction to Skahlem, if it could ease the pain a bit.

Doctor Alwyn Yarwood - Enseign

“If by ‘regular’ you mean, do I often walk around with—” he felt Broderick’s eyes singing the fine hairs on his neck and coughed. “No. It’s not. I had stomach issues as a boy, but Ma always said it was because I was a worrywart. D’you think you can fix it?”

— NE Skahlem and Broderick

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