The Media!


Inside the University Medschool!

 

Dr Mincey strolls into the room, he is followed by a flock of interns, like ducklings swarming after their mother.

 

-Jones, can you tell me what is wrong with this man.

 

Our Venerable physician points at the patient with a pen while fumbling

through the notes.

 

Jones, a young man reddens, he loosens his tie and stutters

 

-Is he dead?

 

-Dead, oh no no no, certainly not dead...if in doubt Jones the electro-cardiogram machine is a real giveaway. No indeedy our patient is very much alive.  God knows how you ever got into this institution. Can anyone else shed any light on what may be the problem?

 

There is a small cough

 

-Ahh Mr. Heinrich Schwartzenberg, what can you offer up?

 

Heinrich speaks, he has the reddened eyes of someone who has been up all  night poring over arcane texts.

 

-Dr Mincey, although the patient does not appear to be breathing, and despite the lack of heartbeat, the ECG clearly shows brain activity. If we look closely behind the ear we can see

small punctures, relatively fresh. These are consistent with injection points for oxy-cranius, a substance used  by specialist workers in a hard vacuum. The drug keeps the brain alive in an emergency while the rest of the body is shut down. This gives a chance, albeit small for rescue. Unfortunately in this case the body has  shutdown and these swellings are consistent with organ detonation due explosive decompression. I recommend we whip the old brain out and drop the body into bacta rejuve as soon as possible.

 

-Brilliant, quite brilliant Mister Schwartzenberg, your natural diagnostic skills, and frankly Benedictine work ethic will see you go far. Now we must head to the Precinct 32 mortuary on the docks....It really is the most fascinating pier of police medicine.