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Do you think we will see Doctor Boyce in season 2?

I suppose traditional Chinese medicine is also a con?
yes, a lot of TCM is pure pseudoscience. also, what most people understand as TCM nowadays has nothing to do with medicine in traditional China anyway, what is called "Traditional Chinese Medicine" and practiced today in China and the West is not thousands of years old, but recently constructed using selected traditional terms, some of which have been taken out of context, some badly misunderstood.
 
yes, a lot of TCM is pure pseudoscience. also, what most people understand as TCM nowadays has nothing to do with medicine in traditional China anyway, what is called "Traditional Chinese Medicine" and practiced today in China and the West is not thousands of years old, but recently constructed using selected traditional terms, some of which have been taken out of context, some badly misunderstood.
Duly noted.
 
also, after 3 years of absolute morons turning their backs on evidence based science in favor of esoteric bullshit, I have absolute zero tolerance for this kind of BS
You mistake me for someone who doesn't due research on everything.

But the idea that only doctors can practice is bullshit as well, given the prevalence of ARNPs and PAs and such across the profession.

But please continue on. Fascinating.
 
on that we can agree on. on "alternative" ways of medicine, we can not
I noted that they were out there. That there is more than one type of healers and medicine in human culture. It's up to a person to decide what they will use.

Do I agree with it? No. That's not the point.
 
I've seen the scene a bunch of times. It's a very olden days manly exchange. But the relationship is nicely drawn.

Why are people assuming Number One is in love with Pike? They seem to be close friends and colleagues who've known each other for years. She isn't holding a torch for him or anything like that. Men and women, men and men, women and women, theys and thems, can love each other without ever wanting to jump bones. And this is coming from someone rubbing hands together in gleeful anticipation of the T'Pring/Spock/Chapel mess she hopes to get.

It's because the Talosians exposed that Number One fantasizes about Pike often.

And in the SNW timeline, in Q+A, Spock deduced that she has feelings for Pike and has been observing him closely. It was implied and her reaction was pretty funny when he figured it out.
 
While their are people who can maybe help heal some issues like a rash or something I think in the end I want a doctor when it comes to performing surgery. Though their is a means of sort of cutting through all that unneeded medical school training and becoming ready at a faster rate.

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Because of the age old trope of men and women can't be friends.

Annoying and painful.
Agreed. I'll never understand some fan's desires to have everyone on the show sleeping with each other. It isn't realistic as most men and women are able to work together in the same environment without "hooking up." Whenever I've seen other shows start putting characters together like that, it's usually a sign that the show is ending and the writers have run out of ideas.EG: Worf/Troi, Chakotay/Seven. If SNW puts Pike and Una together I'll be very disappointed.
 
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While their are people who can maybe help heal some issues like a rash or something I think in the end I want a doctor when it comes to performing surgery. Though their is a means of sort of cutting through all that unneeded medical school training and becoming ready at a faster rate.

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Just wait until the VR version comes out ;)

Agreed. I'll never understand some fan's desires to have everyone on the show sleeping with each other. It isn't realistic as most men and women are able to work together in the same environment without "hooking up." Whenever I've seen other shows start putting characters together like that, it's usually a sign that the show is ending and the writers have run out of ideas.EG: Worf/Troi, Chakotay/Seven. If SNW puts Pike and Una together I'll be very disappointed.
Even if they haven't "run out of ideas" it is still less interesting to me. Romance is just, well it's a dime a dozen in fiction.
 
Bernd Schneider updated his website with his review of this week's episode https://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/episodes/snw2.htm#amongthelotuseaters and pointed out "The reimagined Enterprise has a huge sickbay, much like a hospital with a bed for every single crew member if necessary. But apparently just one single doctor, and none at all when he is on an away mission."

If they wanted to show Boyce, this week's episode would've been the prime opportunity to do so.
Assuming the Enterprise still has a crew of 200 or so as established in The Cage and in Disco, then it's already got a larger medical staff than would be needed for a crew this size given in this episode we know there's one doctor and two nurses (Chapel and someone else seen in the background). Voyager with a crew of 150 only had one doctor and one nurse assigned to it when it was launched with an EMH as backup. An actual US Navy ship with a crew of 300 is considered too small to have an actual doctor assigned to it, they typically only have medics and corpsmen to handle their medical needs.
 
Assuming the Enterprise still has a crew of 200 or so as established in The Cage and in Disco, then it's already got a larger medical staff than would be needed for a crew this size given in this episode we know there's one doctor and two nurses (Chapel and someone else seen in the background). Voyager with a crew of 150 only had one doctor and one nurse assigned to it when it was launched with an EMH as backup. An actual US Navy ship with a crew of 300 is considered too small to have an actual doctor assigned to it, they typically only have medics and corpsmen to handle their medical needs.
I didn't know this info, thanks!
 
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