Trek Medicine
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He's holding that hypo like a cross. Exorcist Bones.
Can't the hypo synthesize needed medication sometimes?
Can't the hypo synthesize needed medication sometimes?
Cordrazine is powerful stuff. Can start your heart or rocket you into full blown paranoid mania.
Please don't bump your own threads weeks after the last post.
@Peach Wookiee can you move this to general trek and merge with my thread "Trek medicine"?
I can send it there, since this can definitely be GTD, but I think the mods there will have to merge the threads. Moderators of GTD, if you please…?
The true miracle is that the 1980s doctors were able to figure all this out in a matter of minutes.
To be fair, the only person in STIV who says the woman has a new kidney is the woman herself. It's basically her revival tent healing.
But if we accept the claim at face value, how did the doctors ascertain her health in just minutes? They ran no tests. They hadn't rolled her into an exam room. Technologies like CAT scan and MRI were rare: my dad worked in a large urban hospital as a radiologist in the 1980s, and imaging devices were mobile units they had access to every once in a while. Even so, they require extensive preparation.
How were the doctors able to determine a fully functioning kidney, new or otherwise, unless they were themselves from the future?
(Yes, yes the needs of the plot.)
To be fair, the only person in STIV who says the woman has a new kidney is the woman herself. It's basically her revival tent healing.
But if we accept the claim at face value, how did the doctors ascertain her health in just minutes? They ran no tests. They hadn't rolled her into an exam room. Technologies like CAT scan and MRI were rare: my dad worked in a large urban hospital as a radiologist in the 1980s, and imaging devices were mobile units they had access to every once in a while. Even so, they require extensive preparation.
How were the doctors able to determine a fully functioning kidney, new or otherwise, unless they were themselves from the future?
(Yes, yes the needs of the plot.)
And the hypospray is never loaded or programmed just applied directly to the patient.
I would have suggested something like targeted nanotechnology but that episode where Wesley sets them loose on the ship seemed to suggest that they were relatively unfamiliar tech.
More ‘magic’ I suppose.
I would have suggested something like targeted nanotechnology but that episode where Wesley sets them loose on the ship seemed to suggest that they were relatively unfamiliar tech.
More ‘magic’ I suppose.
Well, for starters, she was lying prone on a gurney, weak and ill, with an oxygen tent nearby and tubes in her nose. Later, she's sitting up in a wheelchair, waving enthusiastically, with no need for oxygen (they wouldn't have removed it otherwise).
And I suppose when she says new, she means that her old kidneys work like new. If you've been sick for a while, you know what it feels like, and when that changes for the better, you'll notice.
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