Give Gregory House a blue uniform and Starfleet tech, and that's MY doctor.
"Please state the nature of your idiocy."
"Please state the nature of your idiocy."
Poll Which doctor would you NOT want to treat you?
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McCoy sometimes gives his patients "what for" too, but some need it.If you know the guy as a friend,not just a doctor, that helps, too.
He once told both Kirk and Spock to shut up.
Unless you're a Vulcan where he will insult your physiology while treating you and treat you as 'the other'.
Or a Klingon. He's not very competent when it comes to Klingons.
Kelley apparently objected to the idea that McCoy would not know the details of the physiology of one of the Federation's founding members, like he seemed not to in "Journey to Babel."
Not knowing the Klingons makes marginally more sense, as they're a hostile power and one would think they wouldn't be too keen on letting the enemy get their hands on bodies from which they could learn weaknesses or develop biological weapons.
But given the number of Klingons who doubtless have been treated on / scanned on / beamed through the biofilters of / Federation vessels and starbases, even that seems kind of silly.
And even sillier that Crusher wouldn't have known about redundant Klingon organs by the time of TNG. What, Worf avoids his physicals?
Not knowing the Klingons makes marginally more sense, as they're a hostile power and one would think they wouldn't be too keen on letting the enemy get their hands on bodies from which they could learn weaknesses or develop biological weapons.
But given the number of Klingons who doubtless have been treated on / scanned on / beamed through the biofilters of / Federation vessels and starbases, even that seems kind of silly.
And even sillier that Crusher wouldn't have known about redundant Klingon organs by the time of TNG. What, Worf avoids his physicals?
The Klingons can conquer whole worlds and defeat their gods, but don't you dare take out a hypodermic needle...
But Starfleet has used hyposprays for two centuries now
They don't care, doctors are icky. They'd much rather die in battle than get a flu shot.
At the time Journey to Babel was made, the Vulcans would not have been one of the Federation's founding members. The idea didn't start floating around tie-in material until the late 80s or the 90s and wasn't made canonical until the Enterprise episode Zero Hour in 2004.
I suspect that if Kelley did indeed have any objections on the matter it's that as Spock was the ships first officer and a friend, McCoy would likely have been studying Vulcan physiology.
It's a wonder poor McCoy has time for anything outside of providing medical care, much less studying Vulcan physiology, given that the Enterprise is so frequently in peril.
Yeah, I may have conflated what I was told with my own thoughts on the matter.
Yeah, he may "reason" that your particular branch is destined to be extinct in a couple of millennia or so, and not be willing to go against "evolution".
I wouldn't put it past Phlox to throw a Ceti eel on an injury if he thought it had some kind of medicinal value.
PHLOX: It'll be okay, as long as it doesn't go into your ear or nose--we may have a problem then, but I should be able to catch him before he gets that far--hopefully.
PHLOX: It'll be okay, as long as it doesn't go into your ear or nose--we may have a problem then, but I should be able to catch him before he gets that far--hopefully.
It wouldn't take much to make Phlox part of a horror movie. In fact he could be the central focus of said movie.
"Then he got an idea. An awful idea. Dr. Phlox got a wonderful, awful idea!"
It goes back further than that. It was in the FASA RPG in the early 80s, and they based their history on the Spaceflight Chronology from 1979, so it was probably in there before that.
This actually ties in nicely to ENT's Klingon arc - if medical meddling caused a plague and made the survivors lose their precious lobster foreheads, it makes sense they would have a cultural aversion to getting a check-up.
Well, it probably wasn't around at the time Journey to Babel was made, so I still stand by my post.
This actually ties in nicely to ENT's Klingon arc - if medical meddling caused a plague and made the survivors lose their precious lobster foreheads, it makes sense they would have a cultural aversion to getting a check-up.
It's even worse; those who suffer neuro trauma are usually doomed to die, according to "Ethics".
It's part of my head canon that the experience of "Journey to Babel" convinced Dr. McCoy to get a Vulcan specialist on board, so something like that wouldn't happen again. Hence, Dr. M'Benga in "A Private Little War."
But Dr. McCoy had to be pretty good at his job. His sickbay had what, like 3-4 beds on a ship of 430 crewmen? And those were hardly ever filled!
Yeah, I suppose TUC's "Jim, I don't even know the anatomy!" doesn't jibe too well with McCoy being able to identify the Klingon spy by organ placement in "The Trouble With Tribbles." I guess he meant that while he knew the basics, he didn't know nearly enough to do trauma surgery on a Klingon.
Reading an anatomy map is a lot different than fixing a live, dying person. Even a four year old can point to the location of the heart on a diagram.
While reading working on Memory alpha articles and thus Chakoteya transcripts, I came across the EMH's bout with a holographic case of Levodian flu (from "Tattoo"). All I can say is, "Well played, Kes. Well played."
While reading working on Memory alpha articles and thus Chakoteya transcripts, I came across the EMH's bout with a holographic case of Levodian flu (from "Tattoo"). All I can say is, "Well played, Kes. Well played."
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