=/\=Is there a surgeon general in their government, or some kind of medical liaison that we could speak to? I refuse to believe that any health care system worth anything at all is at peace with this many casualties on a regular basis.=/\=

=/\= We’ve not been introduced to one, but there will be. You saw their teams yourself, very efficient. Long term, I’d like to get them to join the Federation and then we can apply a full planetary engineering solution here, with long range forecasting and orbital phaser platforms. Short term, we can only patch them up and offer medical supplies. It isn’t a good remedy but with non-aligned planets that’s Starfleet policy. =/\=

-Glen, CO

=/\=I’ll check ship’s inventory and see what we can spare. Maybe we can get some supply ships out here on a regular basis, too,=/\= replied Liz, trying to summon some sort of feeling of optimism in a situation where there wasn’t a lot to be found. It felt like the Merrimack was just offering palliative care instead of treating the root of the problem, and as a doctor, she knew full well that wasn’t an acceptable long-term solution.

=/\=I’ve got a few last patients that need tending to for the time being. The burn treatments we’ve been using don’t seem to be working as well as I’d like, so I’m going to see what other measures I can take. Let me know if there’s anything else that we can do planet-side.=/\=

Liz closed the channel, and went back to her burn patients, where her head nurse was checking vitals and updating their charts.

“Greg, can we do a deeper scan on the burns to see if we can get a better idea of how we can treat them? Our standard burn ointments and our burn chamber don’t seem to be having much effect, and I want to make sure we’re using the right tools to treat the problem.”