Posted by Ensign Kajhel (Security Officer) in Sidesim: Sickbay – Kajhel reporting for physico-medical exam (tag CMO)

Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Haadok (Chief Medical Officer) in Sidesim: Sickbay – Kajhel reporting for physico-medical exam (tag CMO)

Posted by Ensign Kajhel (Security Officer) in Sidesim: Sickbay – Kajhel reporting for physico-medical exam (tag CMO)
On his first day on board the ship, after he had met his chief security officer, and Rand shown him all around, it was time for his medical exam to be declared fit for duty. It did not worry him much, but he hoped he would not get speciesist attitudes and questions about his telepathy and precognitive skills. There were too many humans around him – more than he cared for – and humans were the most curious, but also the most bigoted aliens he had encountered. It was an odd combination of values and attitudes.

He reported at Sickbay desk, having received his appointment for 15:00 hours. It was now 14:58. He was right on time. He sat down and waited to be called up by the appropriate staff member responsible for his examination.

– Ensign Kajhel (Security)

Haadok had been deeply engrossed in a pathology report when Crewman Jarillo alerted her through the comms that her ‘3 o’clock’ had arrived.

“Thank you, Jarillo. Let him know I will be with him momentarily,” Haadok lifted her finger from the panel and rose, brushing the wrinkles from her tunic. The journey from her office to the reception area, where a PaDD containing her patient’s medical file lay waiting, was rather short and unremarkable. She lingered by the nurse’s station to receive and briefly consider the contents of the device before tucking it under her arm and approaching who she assumed was Ensign Kajhel.

“Mr Kajhel?” She announced her presence before she was within a meter with him. “I am Doctor Haadok. I will be handling your physical today. We will be at biobed one in the examination room, directly across from here.” Haadok was still getting used to Sickbay and the general layout of the Sentinel, so her directions were as much for him as they were for her. “Are you ready?”

— Haadok, CMO

“I am ready, doctor,” Kajhel replied. The doctor seemed non-human, and this comforted him. He found safety in other non-humans, as they were more prone to share the understanding of existing in a human-dominant setting. The signs all over the ship were in Federation Standard, a human language. The very name of the ship was taken from human mythology – nothing was named after his people.

The directions that Haadok audibly gave were helpful, they made Kajhel feel more at home. He further sensed that Haadok was of similar height as him, and this too gave him a feeling of camaraderie which was comforting on this his first day.

As he followed Haadok, he could not help but ask. He felt comfortable enough to ask this non-human what species she belonged to.

“I am Aenar, doctor, we’re from Andoria’s northern wastelands. May I ask what species you are? I fear I have not met enough people of your species to recognise it. I am quite curious.”

– Ensign Kajhel (Security)

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