FIC: Flipped, Book 2 (7/10)

[tkel_paris]

Title: Flipped, Book 2
Rating: heavy T for most contents, but it earns an M for occasional scenes and subject matter
Author: tkel_paris
Summary: David Noble has the biggest challenge of his life ahead - taking care of the new Tenth Doctor. Of course, it's harder because his male friend who was in love with him is now a gorgeous ginger woman... who'

Comments

[tardis_mole]

I'm not sure I agree with the use of anoxia, rather than Hypoxia, here. Hypoxia is treatable. Anoxia is non-survivable or at the very least causes limb loss and organ failure. Other than that, anoxia is usually used to describe water that has no dissolved oxygen.

BTW, Private Mott wasn't in the Great War. He was in Palestine for the End of the Mandate. The Great War (WW1) ended more than a decade before Wilfred was born.

Where did David see a patient taken off life support? That's not done in England on grounds of 'mercy'. It's illegal here. If it was legal, people like me and Steven Hawking would have been murdered years ago. Under British law, the only reason life support is switched off is if the brain has no electrical activity, meaning brain death. Back in 2006 when this was set, it wasn't even legal in Belgium or the Netherlands either. I'm guessing he was in Switzerland, where they've had legal euthanasia for many years? Britain is, thankfully, a lot more civilised and considerate towards their sick and disabled.

That must have been a horrible thing for David to do, to kill someone. For a doctor that, goes against every instinct and every line in your training and oath. Which is why I am so against euthanasia. But in this case I think David must have realised that there was nothing of Toby left to save. In effect, he switched off the Devil's life support.

That last line sounds ominous. I'm guessing David and the Doctor will not get together after all.

[tkel_paris]

*groans* What if anything needs to be revised? This is why I don't like to get into details about certain things when I can't go to you for corrections. *grimaces*

Well, the Devil said that Rose would die in battle. Not exactly what happened, was it?

[tardis_mole]

A simply switch of spelling would suffice for anoxia to hypoxia. The life support thing could be clarified by suggesting he was on a student exchange in Switzerland. I was on Exchange in England, worked at Guys Hospital to learn keyhole surgery, a discipline that was unavailable in Germany at the time. You could mention it later, during conversation between the Doctor and David. At some point they will need to clear the air and talk about things, otherwise David's deepest desire prophecy will come true.