MED_A_Hilbert to ALL

[tarakan]

[ It's everybody's favorite person, Dr. Asshole! ]

Updates on captain's status:
1. Pain medication was effective treatment. However, it will not cure the captain, only manage the symptoms. I do not want to speak more on Drake's condition due to patient confidentiality, but it is safe to say that any sort of treatment more advanced than minor pain medication cannot happen. If I had some more information, then maybe I could whip up a stronger vaccine: vitals, blood sample, saliva sample, etc. But L3TH3 is unwilling to give me access.

[ 'patient confidentiality' doesn't mean shit when Hilbert's pretty sure at least two to three people here know about the captain's status already, but it's good to have that on the official record! He's a good doctor. ]

2. However, L3TH3 has allowed continued pain medication treatment (delivering nebulized pain medication through the ventilation system). The 48 hour quarantine still remains in place.
2a. At the moment, I am the only person on Medical Staff not in cryostasis.
2b. L3TH3 is allowing other people to implement pain medication treatment under the condition that if something goes wrong, I will be blamed. I can do the hard part in the Medical Bay: nebulizing the pain medication. For anyone who wishes to help, I can train you on how to deliver the medicine through the ventilation. That way, we wouldn't have a situation where our solitary doctor is spending far too much time in quarantine.

I realize that you may have questions and I am always happy to help. But I cannot stress this enough: if you receive any information about Captain Drake's physical, emotional, or mental state, please tell me. Current treatment is frontier medicine at best. Any information can and will be used to help ease Drake's suffering.

Addendum: please stop by Medical if you are experiencing any lingering emotional trauma, memory insertion, etc. from recent events. I am not psychiatrist, but I can at least cover basics.

[ Hilbert suspects that the extra-terrestrial giant mollusk thing didn't actually cause the memory insertion...but he's also not going to say 'hey, I remember a spaceship that I know I've never seen before' on a public channel. ]

Comments

SCI_R_0

[itdoesntlikeyou]

[On the one hand they're probably going to get that demerit from their hacking attempt, if they haven't already, and either L3TH3 or the Captain might not be thrilled about putting them in that position. On the other hand... they've acted on the Captain's behalf during the Wolfwood incident.]

If L3TH3 confirms, I can participate. Putting me in 48 hour quarantine won't strongly impact the ship's functioning or my tasks.

Elaborate on memory insertion.

[itdoesntlikeyou]

Please.

[tarakan]

Certainly.

Multiple odd symptoms were noticed recently. Emotional disregulation was one of them—though we have talked about that one already. Another was experiencing something that you know you could not have experienced, as if remembering suppressed memory or seeing hallucination. More data on that symptom is needed.

If you have experienced symptom like that, please come see me in person.

[itdoesntlikeyou]

[There's a delay relative to Rin's usual prompt message replies.]

Confirmed.

[Sure enough, Rin shows up at the doorway to Medical before too long. They don't just stride into the space - if anything, they're unusually reluctant, compared to their past visits. They stop just inside the doorway, glancing around the space.]

Doctor Hilbert.

[tarakan]

Rin, [ he says, with a little nod. And because Hilbert is the sort of person who wants to get down to business (and because he suspects Rin is here for a reason), he continues with, ]

Two people have had the symptoms I describe. They experience something they know they should not have experienced before. Hallucination, memory, I do not know. But the experience feels like you have lived through it. Scans have not shown any obvious triggers for the new memory nor have they shown any obvious causes.

[itdoesntlikeyou]

[Rin nods and doesn't move any further from the doorway. Still - there is one reason Hilbert told anyone to meet him in person. Two technically, but considering the contingencies on medicating Captain Drake...]

One recent incident.

[Should Hilbert have checked Rin's medical file there will have been a note buried under all the extensive documentation of their mods - something brief about amnesia and medical trauma in their teens. Maybe that explains why they're not elaborating yet.]

[tarakan]

[ You bet your ass that Hilbert's creeped on Rin's medical file. He nods, making a small noise of affirmation as he agrees, ]

One recent incident.

[ It's two for him. But Rin doesn't need to know that. ]

Two people have had that incident, though.

ENG_V_Saverem

[plantussy]

I definitely want to help.

[tarakan]

Wonderful. Meet me in the Medical Bay so I can show you in person.

[plantussy]

Okay! Should I bring anything?

[tarakan]

Notebook if you are the sort to take down notes? I cannot think of anything else.

[plantussy]

Coffee?

[tarakan]

Amending previous statement: I would love some coffee. Please and thank you.

OPE_N_Wolfwood

[lastdecember]

[ For as much as he doesn't want anything to do with Hilbert, and personally thinks that the ship would be better off without the man, he is the only member of Medical awake. He can't keep risking his life for Drake's sake. ]

If my babysitters will allow it, I'll take a turn dosing the captain.

[tarakan]

For what it is worth, I am willing to take your help. With so few of us, I cannot afford to be picky.

[lastdecember]

Just let me know what you want me to do.

[tarakan]

At the moment? Find a good book. Because to nobody's surprise, quarantine can be dull.

[lastdecember]

I can handle two days on my own thanks. I meant what do I need to do to do to dose him?

[tarakan]

Basically the same thing you did when you tried to kill the captain. Only instead of turning off the air supply, I will give you container that you will release into the air supply. The captain's air circuit is a relatively closed loop, but the key word here is relatively.

The quarantine is needed because if things can get in, there is a possibility things can get out. 48 hours is long enough for the infection to manifest symptoms.

SEC_Z_Massani

[anesthetic_rage]

[He had misgivings with the idea of Wolfwood participating, but honestly? Because of what the man had been trying to do... this might be good for him. He wasn't going to stop it, either way. L3TH3 would, no doubt, be watching.]

I know I've said I'm not exactly qualified, but if I can learn whatever simple steps, as long as we've got security on staff for other shifts, I'm willing. Best we stagger this.

[tarakan]

Trust me, my first step will be to make the process as idiot-proof and streamlined as possible. After all, brig looks uncomfortable and I do not want any of us to kill the captain.

[ Not unless he gets that blood sample, of course. ]

If I had more detailed vital statistics or ideally a blood or saliva sample, I could use that to create a more powerful pain killer. I am no chemist, but I could at least diagnose what would make things worse or better. The problem, of course, is that there is no way to obtain that information without potential harm to myself and the crew.

Unless you have any suggestions?

[anesthetic_rage]

From what you've shown me and the little I got from the other staff? No, no suggestions other than that accessing the interior is a death sentence, and potentially worse than it was before.

I could see a tissue sample helping, but keeping it secure and not getting airborne in the ship is the real problem. Obviously.

[tarakan]

Obviously.

I am sure there is some way we can keep a tissue sample safe and contained. I just need to find how to do so.

[anesthetic_rage]

At the very least it's something you can take time with. No point pushing too hard, too fast. I doubt 'tissue samples' feel good for someone in his situation.

[tarakan]

[ There's an awkward pause before, ]

I suspect tissue samples would regrow back quickly.
Not good, of course. And it would still feel awful.
But point stands.