deathsdoctor | Appointments 2.0

Doctor LeBlanc,

I would be happy to have you at our clinics and would like to meet you in person at the first mutually convenient time. Would 2pm today be alright at the Battle Dome Clinic?

Doctor Trafalgar Law

Doctor Law,

That would be excellent. I shall meet you there at the aforementioned time.

Doctor Adele LeBlanc

[Later after another round of searching for reference materials in the library and avoiding the cold weather for as long as possible Adele makes her way to the Battle Dome, arriving at the Clinic promptly at 2pm.]

[The appearance of the man who walks out might not be what any doctor would expect. For one matter, he's young. Mid twenties. Dusky skinned with pale grey blue eyes and hair that is black, until the light hits it just right. And then the sheen is midnight blue. Piercings - two small gold hoops in each ear. Tattoos. He's tall and athletically slender, a mountain climber's build, and there is no hint of anything other on his frame than muscle. He wears black scrubs.

Contrasting this is his manner. Young looking he is, but there is the kind of wear and professionalism around him of an older man. All the invisible battle scars. He smiles.]

Hello. Doctor LeBlanc? I'm Trafalgar Law, head of the clinic here. It's a pleasure to meet you.

[Adele spends what little time she's left to her own devices examining the tools and equipment available. Most was familiar, some was foreign, but there was a strange comfort to being in a setting similar to the hospitals where she once worked. She stood off to one side, hair bound back in a french roll, trench coat draped over one arm, and dressed in her usual almost uniformed off white button down and black slacks. Slim, petite, pale and worn with the approach of middle age and experience she is a slight dash of cream and blond against the background.

She turns at Law's approach and starts to offer her hand, pauses, and blinks up at him. For half a moment she has a mind to call bullshit and ask where the real Law is and rearrange her appointment for when he isn't so busy he has to send a nurse but...there is a familiarity in his manner. One of a surgeon that has worked long, hard, and well and not always succeeded. Something all surgeons had in common.

Adele finishes the guesture, offering her hand for a shake and manages a still puzzled smile.]

Doctor Law. I am honored to make your acquaintance Monsieur.

[There's some puzzlement on his end as well that morphs into understanding. Aa. Aaa. His appearance. Right. It's not the first time in Luceti that people have reacted to it.

Which brings to mind something he has to speak about during the orientation. About how there are many different kinds of medicine practiced here, both magical, traditional, Eastern and Western. Not all doctors react well to that kind of diversity - Dr. McCoy certainly didn't. And it's certainly not something she should encounter first in a crisis.

His handshake is firm, but not crushing.]

The honor is mine, Doctor Adell. It's rare I get to meet a fellow surgeon in these parts.

[Adele was still wrapping her mind around how young Law was, but accepted it easily enough. Men with skill were to be respected in their field, no matter their age...though the tattoos and piercings would always be a little odd to her.]

I cannot imagine the Manlosso going out of their way to pick us out of the ether often, no. [Adele returns the grip warmly, returning her hand to her pocket once it has passed.]

I suppose it would not be remiss for me to assume there is more than one method of treatment available at the clinics, yes? [It would be inefficient, ignorant, and ineffective for the clinics to run on the power of one type of medicine, especially when there was healing magics available and multiple layers of variations in the denizens of Luceti.]

[Words right out of his mouth. So to speak. And Adele seems not put off by it. Relieving.]

No, not at all. There is everything available from high level healing magics, energy manipulation - chi, chakra, to more traditional forms of medicine. A former colleague of mine, Doctor Faye-Ling, practiced a great deal of ah, Chinese medicine. Doctor Mizuno and myself have more of a 'Western' approach, I've been told. So did Doctor McCoy when he was head of this clinic.

[Despite her best efforts Adele cannot entirely repress her shudder at the mention of 'Chinese medicine'. She is certain that particular doctor was...odd. Terrible. Under-qualified. Doctors that use that treatment here will not be so insane. She should also probably explain her reaction.]

Western medicine is what I am accustomed to, but if I need to adjust what it is I usually do to better accommodate a patient's healing I will do so. Eastern Medicine is...respectable, where I am from. Though I've only encountered one man that practiced it and he...

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Wanted to treat a patient that suffered severe increases in intracranial pressure with acupuncture. I am certain any other practitioner of Eastern Medicine would not have suggested such a thing.

[...

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... that is insane. Completely insane. And believable given some of the people he's come across.

Excuse him. He's going to look horrified for a moment anyway.]

No one with any decent sort of qualification and medical experience should. I had the pleasure of working closely with Doctor Faye-Ling, and I know she would have been more than horrified.

[There are multiple ways to treat increased intracranial pressure - special diuretics for long term cases, temporary hyperventilation, simply raising the head of the bed in some cases, osmotherapy, extraventricular drains - hell, in extreme cases craniotomies and decompressive craniectomies might be called for.

Not. Acupuncture. WHAT.]

...the patient was his SON as well. [Adele massages the bridge of her nose, remembering that strange, stubborn, and horribly infuriating man. What's done was done, the son treated and she waved the both of them off and never heard from them again. Adele still thinks to this day the father did something foolish with his eastern 'medicine' that got him and his son killed. There was no other way for that kind of foolishness to turn out.]

That is my single brush with eastern medicine and I recognize the, the inherent madness of such a treatment. So. As long as there is no one that would suggest such a thing here, I think I will be more than able to work around and alongside it.

His son? [Okay, that crosses the line from insanity into the realm of offensive. Law doesn't tolerate stupidity well in the medical field well as a rule, but things involving children always did draw a special sort of ire from him.] The utter idiot.

No, Doctor Adele, there is no one I know of here who would put such a thing forward. People here are more acquainted with common sense than that.

I had to fight to treat the boy, and he was the one that contacted me in the first place. [She sighs and combs her loose bangs back behind her ears.] But. As you have said, it shall not be an issue, yes?

[Somewhat back on track Adele nods a bit and pulls out a copy of her credentials, a few pages had made it across worlds inside her case. The rest she had to add in by hand, her school, residency experience, etc.] I am not certain how relevant the information is, but my medical experience comes from Earth, the year twenty eleven, primarily in trauma wards in Paris and Lyon. Several years as head of staff in Paris, and five years in Lyon.

[And now, now Adele swallows her pride. Back home she was excellent, the top of her field, but in Luceti? There was too much she didn't know.]Here? I shall go where you need me, and work as you dictate. I do not consider myself informed enough to attempt anything beyond middling surgical work. There is still to much I do not understand about the other denizens of the village.

Not an issue. [That he can give his word on.]

Thank you. [He is going to take those politely and read them through carefully. Thoroughly. Nod approvingly at what he sees.] This is impressive. Exceptionally impressive. I can't think of another currently here who has your level of experience. There are a lot of talented people here, Doctor Adele, but pretty well nearly all are younger than I. The bulk of Luceti's population is in the teens and early twenties. They are very capable skill wise, but well, handling the other pressures that can come with the job? They don't have the benefit of those years.

[In other words, you're needed for more than medicine. You're needed as a role model.]

That's a problem for everyone here, and a worry every new cycle. I can tell you most people here are at least baseline human and will respond to most conventional treatments. And aside from the wings, nothing much seems to be altered - at least in ways that we can ascertain. But I can more than understand why you feel that way. I absolutely loathe going in blind. Especially since getting information from people can be a challenge - with the experimentation and the kidnappings, medical procedures can put some people very much on edge for understandable reasons.

There are some things that might help you get more comfortable. I have aa... liberated as much material as I could from the library for the Clinic's own use. [There may be angry librarians out for his head right now. There are PROBABLY angry librarians out for his head right now.] There is a good collection upstairs now, and that's available for everyone's reference. The Battle Dome simulation chambers can also simulate any race currently present in Luceti, as well as any situation you could dream up. I use them for training and to catch any potential problems that might arise during a major procedure.

[Adele stands at the ready, hands clasped behind her back as she waits for Law to finish reading through her information. All her experience had to be worth something here, but she didn't expect- well. If the head of the medical facilities was this young a man, perhaps it shouldn't be so strange that all involved were equally young. Adele noticed the trend of younger individuals in the village but did not think to consider how that would affect the way some of the organizations were run. If what Law was telling her was true, well. She will simply have to work twice as hard as she had back in Paris when all her peers and coworkers had the same level of experience that she did. At Law's implication she blinks, somewhat startled, but nods none the less.]

I have worked with students and interns with less experience before; I think it might have been a right of passage for them for how often they were sent to me, and how only those that understood and were capable in my eyes to not be infuriatingly obtuse stayed the course and the rest either repeated a year or gave up entirely. [There is no pride in this comment, no self importance. Simply an anecdote that outlined her willingness and ability to work with others less knowledgeable. Here, at least, Adele is an ultimate professional.

Though the comment about liberating books and the simulation pulls a quirked brow and half smile.]

An opportunity to look over these resources and to use the simulation to drill procedures would be most appreciated. My specialty has been, and remains trauma surgery, but I intend to go over the more common procedures until I am back in...what is the phrase? Top form? I will only ask what it is you most often treat here, so I am properly prepared.

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