Blood Challenge: Practicing Medicine, by niqaeli

[niqaeli]

Title: Practicing Medicine
Author: niqaeli
Genre: Gen.
Rating/Warnings: hard PG.
Summary: Carson copes with the Pegasus Galaxy.
Notes: So, saeva is totally an enabler and this challenge was sort of perfect for exploring the stuff she dumped into my brain.

Comments

[casspeach]

I liked this. It's a different take on Carson to my own, but not so different that I recoiled against it, lol.

I have no problem seeing Carson as having trained as a surgeon (although I concur probably general rather than trauma) reached the part of his career when he would have had to have done some research, as practically everyone of his age would have done in Britain at the time as it was a kind of hoop to jump through to get through the registrar to consultant bottleneck) done his research in genetics, found he liked it better and stayed in it. Yes, possibly I have spent far too much time thinking about this! Given that you can o to med school straight from school in the UK, there would be time for this. I can't see why they would have a straight researcher working the infirmary at all, except in absolutely dire emergencies.

Wow, essay over! Been thinking about this all day. I definitely agree that they almost certainly don't have sufficient medical staff to cover all specialities without some cross cover.

I definitely agree with the nurses thinking he was darling and his colleagues letting him do all the being nice to the rellies duty, lol. His bedside manner's too good for a lab rat!

[niqaeli]

Oh, it's certainly possible he did!

But surgery, trauma or otherwise, carries a lot more pressure than regular clinical work, and he doesn't seem to respond well to pressure. Generally I think surgeons are the kind of people who thrive on pressure--to pull an example out of a completely different show, Hawkeye from M*A*S*H is such a surgeon. Clearly the work he was doing in Korea was trauma work, but... yeah. *shrug* YMMV.

I can't claim any knowledge of the UK medical system, so I can't speak to any of the practicalities of that.

[casspeach]

Ah, well, yes, Carson's not so hot under pressure as a pilot, or a soldier. Personally I think he handles it fine medically, like in Hot Zone. But we can agree to disagree!

[saeva]

On the other hand, while the SGA medicine overall is rather consistent, what comes out of Carson's mouth is... not so much, at least in regards to trauma. See: 38 Minutes.

- Andrea.

[casspeach]

Lol, yeah, okay my argument falls down on 38 minutes, because Carson's dialogue in that ep is just totally wtf? cringeworthy. I think a lot of that is 'look how Scottish Dr Beckett is' -isms, which is a whole other discussion.

Hmm, must wander off to refine theory of why Carson's so useless in 38 minutes.