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[starshipmedical]

This is Leonard McCoy, Chief Medical Officer aboard the USS Enterprise. Bridge, do you copy?

[ There’s a man in science blue standing next to the fountain, looking cold and grumpy as he shakes his device. ]

Damn interference… Enterprise, this is McCoy. I don’t know what the hell happened with those infernal transporters, but I’m damn sure I ain’t

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[intheblanks]

Seriously?

[Wait, turned this on a second too soon. He'll just clear his throar.]

If you're waiting to beam up, you could be at it a long time.

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[starshipmedical]

Seriously what?

[ Too late, he heard that. ]

If Scotty broke the damn things again because he was trying to improve them, I'm going to make his next physical hell.

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[intheblanks]

[Explaining himself is still a no-go.]

Kinky as that sounds, you'll have to put it off too. Your being here isn't a technical error.

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[starshipmedical]

[ Asshole 8( ]

If Scott wants someone to play with him, he can find someone else. [ Why would you even put that mental image in his head, Chase 8( ]

Really. Then what is it?

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[intheblanks]

Glad you could take that thought and run with it. [The little frown in his voice is his childhood warping.] At least twenty people will be jumping you in the next ten minutes to tell you where it is. It's going to sound insane. You can take that up with them. What might be useful over the next couple of days is knowing where the welcome centre and the hospital are.

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[starshipmedical]

You haven't seen him drink. [ Sorry about that. ]

Right. I'm listening. [ Especially in regards to that hospital. ]

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[intheblanks]

Not in anything higher than a PG Certificate.

[Said with the almost-certainty that won't be understood.]

Welcome centre's just off the east side of the square. They'll feed and clothe you until you can find an apartment, which you'll want to get to as soon as possible, unless you like the whole youth hostel experience. Hospital's the big white building to the north. You might be able to get yourself signed up to a paid training program.

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[starshipmedical]

What?

[ 8( ]

Right-- [ Wait. Did he just say... ] Training program?

[ B| Excuse you. ]

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[intheblanks]

Right. I assume you won't need to start from anatomy 101.

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[starshipmedical]

I've finished med school, thanks.

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[intheblanks]

Right, of course. In which century?

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[starshipmedical]

... The 23rd.

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[intheblanks]

How's your confidence in making diagnoses when the most advanced scanner we run is an MRI?

Or if I had you a rib splitter and a crash victim?

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[starshipmedical]

[ B[ He hates it when people who aren't him are right. ]

Fine, I see your point.

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[intheblanks]

Believe it or not, I'm trying to help with the inevitable culture shock. If I was in the 23rd century, I'd be out of my depth in the OR, too.

Doctor McCoy, was it?

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[starshipmedical]

[ There's a heavy sigh. Yeah, he knows. He just doesn't want to admit it, so he'll talk about the 23rd century instead. ] It wouldn't just be the technology. There's species differences. I've heard about vampires and werewolves, but that doesn't tell you what to do when you've got a patient whose heart is where a kidney would be on a human.

Yeah, that's it.