I think McCoy would grow to appreciate the EMH.
How would McCoy regard the EMH if they met?
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McCoy: "What I wouldn't give for another pair of hands in this mess."
EMH: "Please state the nature of the medical emergency."
McCoy: "Who the hell are you?"
EMH: "I'm the emergency medical hologram. And you're clearly in over your head."
McCoy: "Now just a damned minute! Who are you to waltz in here out of thin air and tell me how to run my sickbay?"
EMH: "I'm not telling you how to run your sickbay. But you're in need of assistance. If we can dispense with the hostilities, I'd like to get down to business."
McCoy: "Spock put you up to this, didn't he? That green-blooded son of a--"
EMH: "Commander Spock did nothing more than warn me about your territorial nature and tendency toward colourful aphorisms. Since this man is roughly twenty seconds from going into shock, shall we declare a cease-fire and concentrate on saving him? Or would you rather rely on bear skins and stone knives?"
McCoy: "You're friends with Spock, all right. Now shut up and help me get this artery clamped off. Nurse! I need a hypospray of atrazine, stat! Bad enough I have to operate under battle conditions, I have to play nice with a trick of light."
EMH: "I heard that."
McCoy: "Bully for you. You're actually a decent assistant. Never thought I'd find myself saying that."
EMH: "You're welcome."
McCoy: "Do you always have to have the last word?"
EMH: "Not to my knowledge."
McCoy: "In a pig's eye."
EMH: "What does a swine have to do with this?"
McCoy: "Not a thing. Nurse, close."
EMH: "But I could--"
McCoy: "Shhh!"
EMH: "You clearly underestimate the value I bring--"
McCoy: "Computer, terminate emergency medical hologram."
EMH: "No fair!"
EMH: "Please state the nature of the medical emergency."
McCoy: "Who the hell are you?"
EMH: "I'm the emergency medical hologram. And you're clearly in over your head."
McCoy: "Now just a damned minute! Who are you to waltz in here out of thin air and tell me how to run my sickbay?"
EMH: "I'm not telling you how to run your sickbay. But you're in need of assistance. If we can dispense with the hostilities, I'd like to get down to business."
McCoy: "Spock put you up to this, didn't he? That green-blooded son of a--"
EMH: "Commander Spock did nothing more than warn me about your territorial nature and tendency toward colourful aphorisms. Since this man is roughly twenty seconds from going into shock, shall we declare a cease-fire and concentrate on saving him? Or would you rather rely on bear skins and stone knives?"
McCoy: "You're friends with Spock, all right. Now shut up and help me get this artery clamped off. Nurse! I need a hypospray of atrazine, stat! Bad enough I have to operate under battle conditions, I have to play nice with a trick of light."
EMH: "I heard that."
McCoy: "Bully for you. You're actually a decent assistant. Never thought I'd find myself saying that."
EMH: "You're welcome."
McCoy: "Do you always have to have the last word?"
EMH: "Not to my knowledge."
McCoy: "In a pig's eye."
EMH: "What does a swine have to do with this?"
McCoy: "Not a thing. Nurse, close."
EMH: "But I could--"
McCoy: "Shhh!"
EMH: "You clearly underestimate the value I bring--"
McCoy: "Computer, terminate emergency medical hologram."
EMH: "No fair!"
I think you summed it up and that's some darn good writing.
I'd say that as a man of modern medical advancement, he would come around to the idea of using the tech for medical progress. However, there would be a clear line where he'd never accept an AI as a trusted practitioner of medicine. I hasten to say it, but I expect that so too would be the case with other AI, like androids, including Data
It's fair to say that such a perspective would be a bias too, but I never see him submitting himself to the sole care of an AI doctor, nor recommending anyone else do so either
It's fair to say that such a perspective would be a bias too, but I never see him submitting himself to the sole care of an AI doctor, nor recommending anyone else do so either
Dr. Phlox: "They'll be at this for hours"
Dr. Cusher: "Where is Bashir? I had a dinner date with him.."
It would be funny and ironic , Dr McCoy who seems to despise old school medicine would find it hard to adjust to modern medicine of the 24th century.
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He did in "Shore Leave", though to be fair, he didn't have a choice, being dead and all...(you learn this I think later in once upon a planet, the medical care is done by robots)
I think to begin with he'd be wary and worried that the EMH wouldn't care for the patients, but given a bit of time I think they could have a decent working relationship. And of course Mark II onwards may have very different personalities. I think McCoy would prefer the Voyager EMH just because they could actually have a conversation.
Great scenario! Like others have pointed out, their personalities are somewhat similar. Yet, I have a feeling that they would get along in the end, considering their penchant for making barbed comments about Vulcan culture and other similarities.
I wonder how well he might have gotten along with other Trek doctors like Pulaski, Crusher, or even Phlox?
I think it's not so much the modernity of the science or technology. It would be the absence of humanity, or at least a compassionate person, whatever their race. I'd think he might even have trouble with a Vulcan doctor, like Selar
I think he would use it, and regard it, the same way he used the ship's computer. A potentially useful tool that could talk, and had the additional feacture of being able to pick things up. But nothing more than that.
And I find it unlikely that McCoy would routinely activate the EMH, he would employ it as it seemed to have been originally intended, in emergencies.
McCoy: "It's strange Jim, but she reminds me of someone."
I think that would have been exactly what he'd say.
Not sure how he would react to Phlox or Crusher.
Didn't McCoy say in one of the movies that the new sickbay was like a god damned computer center? And then something about engineers liking to change things?
Phlox I think he would like, both were social and friendly.
With Crusher he would be a southern gentleman and would be charming with her.
Or charm her pants off
Selar was not shown to not be compassionate. If he objected based on her race then he would be a racist ignoramus and he only seemed that way with Spock.
Literally...
His racism is arguable. I personally don't think he is racist. He judges based on individual character traits, but as a Vulcan, if Selar were to be as dispassionate as Bones found Spock to be (Which is likely) then I imagine he'd object to her as a medical practitioner.
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