"He's in stable condition, the knee wound's bleeding is under control, and the neural inhibitor means he's in no pain." Brainy leaned forward to work on picking debris out of the wound, nudging a stool with his foot to sit on as he worked. "Real medical treatment is nothing like those ridiculous medical dramas where everyone is yelling dramatically and saying everything needs to be stat."
He gestured to the wound.
"In the past I've sometimes spent well over a half hour picking out every single particulate and bit of broken bone out of an open wound before closing up - because that's what you have to do to prevent infection. Unless there's another patient in need of triage, needlessly rushing like characters do in the medical holos is unwise in actual medical practice. Usually in a situation like this, a patient would be referred to a surgeon or an automated robotic surgical suite for surgical debridement under anesthesia."
He gestured around the room.
"Do you see any other surgeons besides myself at the moment? If it's going to take time and he's stable and it's not a situation that requires triage of multiple patients, I may as well teach you in the process. With any luck, injuries on our team-mates will be sparing so it's best to take advantage of learning opportunities when they arise."
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He gestured to the wound.
"In the past I've sometimes spent well over a half hour picking out every single particulate and bit of broken bone out of an open wound before closing up - because that's what you have to do to prevent infection. Unless there's another patient in need of triage, needlessly rushing like characters do in the medical holos is unwise in actual medical practice. Usually in a situation like this, a patient would be referred to a surgeon or an automated robotic surgical suite for surgical debridement under anesthesia."
He gestured around the room.
"Do you see any other surgeons besides myself at the moment? If it's going to take time and he's stable and it's not a situation that requires triage of multiple patients, I may as well teach you in the process. With any luck, injuries on our team-mates will be sparing so it's best to take advantage of learning opportunities when they arise."