Posted by Lieutenant Tandra Mika (Chief Medical Officer) in side-sim: This Feels Familiar (TAG Mika)

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Mika shook her head. “I got here yesterday, did my onboarding and checked out my quarters. And…” She gestured to the office, “you can see what I’ve been up to this morning.” Sharah’s description had her interested. “A doctor’s playground, huh? That good?”

~ Lt Mika, CMO

Sharah nodded her eyes getting that look all doctors get when presented with new state of the art equipment, even if they don’t know how to use it yet. “The Viking class isn’t new, but this ship is. Something happened on the old ship. People are…” Sharah searched for the word to describe the feelings amongst the previous crew, “haunted, but more, by it. But when this one was commissioned everything was updated. All brand new, all state of the art. The facilities aren’t as large as a starbase, but we can do anything they can. The surgical suite have the new variable stasis fields that were approved last year, and the holographic imaging systems are breathtaking. To be able to see in real time and enlarged what you are working on. It’s pretty amazing. I hope we never need it but it’s nice to have.”

Fayth, med

Mika clearly shared her enthusiasm. “That sounds fantastic! As much as I’d rather avoid an emergency, I can’t wait to see them in use.” All of her placements had been on older ships. She’d never worked with state of the art equipment. She stepped out of her office. “What about the imagining and scanning equipment?”

~ Lt Mika, CMO

“You have to see it.” Sharah led her out and past main sickbay and into room off to the side. There was a single biobed and all the standard equipment. Looking up at the ceiling, Mika could see several holo-emmiters. “So we can bring a patient in here and run any scan or imaging we need. Or it can be done with the mobile equipment and then uploaded here.” She picked up a microtome and did a scan of her arm. Then turning to the control console she input the readings and hit a button. In the middle of the room a 3D holographic image of the scans she did of her arm appeared. “You can zoom in and out, twist it around to get a different view, and even have the computer remove different components.”

Mika spent several minutes zooming in and out and studying the scan and making the computer remove things while Sharah talked.

“You can even take the images from the Electron Resonance Scanner and combine it with neurological and cardiovascular scans to see how everything is moving and flowing as well. And wait till you see what the readings from a Detronal Scanner.”

Fayth, med

“Here, sit down, I want to try it,” Mika said, and then she used the equipment to make a scan of Sharah, showing the cardiovascular scan and imaging studies. Then she spent another several minutes watching it and playing with the results.

~ Lt Mika, CMO

Sharah hopped up onto the biobed and stretched out letting the imaging systems go to work and the biobed to take the cardiovascular scans. In the middle of the room a duplicate of Sharah appeared in the shimmering lights of the holo-emitters. Mika was able to isolate individual body systems and watch the blood and oxygen flow move through each area down to the cellular levels. “I’m not a neurologist, but Jones is. I was listening to him talk after he helped on the surgery for Lord Hab’rabi.” Sharah paused, like she was trying to sort something out, something personal. “You weren’t here for that. Alien guest, got shot point blank in the brain. He survived…anyway, I was listening to Jones and it got me thinking. You can do the same thing with a neurological scan. You can watch the electrical impulses move through the body. It’s…different watching my brain.”

Fayth, med