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[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

[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.

[anesthetic_rage]

And if there's even a ghost of a chance of, if not reversing this, maybe maaking his situation more bearable?

He'd probably take that risk. Should it come along, as long as we're in no danger.

[tarakan]

If there is any way to make the situation better for the Captain, I will try to find it.
He is suffering enough already.

[anesthetic_rage]

Something I think all of us agree on.

Even Wolfwood, in his own fucked up way.

[tarakan]

Agreed. Though I wish Wolfwood had a moment of self-reflection.

[anesthetic_rage]

Give it some time. He may get around to it.

I'll keep him out of the wrong places in the meantime.

[tarakan]

Appreciate that. And I'll keep you in the loop for when the schedule is uploaded.