Dr. Adrien Arbuckal (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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thisavrou2017-05-24 07:04 pm
prorenataa) wrote in thisavrou2017-05-24 07:04 pm
Text: Medical Update on recent Bio-Hazard situation
[ Where oh where has the doctor been?
Well, a biological hazard with contagion ramifications. You do the math.
Now, however, having gotten a chance to sit down and look back over his notes, Adrien is taking the opportunity to put together something resembling a report to share with the class. Eventually it reads something like this. ]
In regards to the recent out-break of the biohazard and potential contagion situation on this planet.
Diagnosis of patients revealed no obvious affects or presence of the contagion still within our systems. This was a blanket finding across all species.
Material taken from the digestive tract, or equivalent, was likewise studies with no evidence of material outside normal parameters.
However, bloodwork lead to neurological follow-up, in the following circumstances. Where very slight alterations to the hormone levels (regardless of species) was identified further review identified these alterations as affecting the endocrine and adrenal systems (again we’re not all the same species, so the equivalent in those of you who don’t lay claim to either of these exact systems). The tests show minor, but consistent disturbances, that upon review against baseline levels, suggest a similarity to variations of withdrawal.
This effect is presenting as similar to other neurochemical imbalances, particularly anxiety and depression. If you happened to flag on these variances in testing and were taken for further questioning, I’d be interested in hearing how that went in hopes to continue to collect data on this outbreak.
Because experience, and my own prominent level of paranoia, suggests this information may be important in the future. Also, there’s a betting pool over whether the initial outbreak was an accident due to piss poor protocols, or a deliberate release of something weaponized.
For the record, I put down sencs on deliberate release, because this is precisely the sort of thing certain individuals would love to weaponize.
Finally, to those individuals who went crashing through the Ingress back to the slaver planet on some misguided mission of retributions? That was a fucking stupid move. Care to share with the class what long term solution you accomplished?
Well, a biological hazard with contagion ramifications. You do the math.
Now, however, having gotten a chance to sit down and look back over his notes, Adrien is taking the opportunity to put together something resembling a report to share with the class. Eventually it reads something like this. ]
In regards to the recent out-break of the biohazard and potential contagion situation on this planet.
Diagnosis of patients revealed no obvious affects or presence of the contagion still within our systems. This was a blanket finding across all species.
Material taken from the digestive tract, or equivalent, was likewise studies with no evidence of material outside normal parameters.
However, bloodwork lead to neurological follow-up, in the following circumstances. Where very slight alterations to the hormone levels (regardless of species) was identified further review identified these alterations as affecting the endocrine and adrenal systems (again we’re not all the same species, so the equivalent in those of you who don’t lay claim to either of these exact systems). The tests show minor, but consistent disturbances, that upon review against baseline levels, suggest a similarity to variations of withdrawal.
This effect is presenting as similar to other neurochemical imbalances, particularly anxiety and depression. If you happened to flag on these variances in testing and were taken for further questioning, I’d be interested in hearing how that went in hopes to continue to collect data on this outbreak.
Because experience, and my own prominent level of paranoia, suggests this information may be important in the future. Also, there’s a betting pool over whether the initial outbreak was an accident due to piss poor protocols, or a deliberate release of something weaponized.
For the record, I put down sencs on deliberate release, because this is precisely the sort of thing certain individuals would love to weaponize.
Finally, to those individuals who went crashing through the Ingress back to the slaver planet on some misguided mission of retributions? That was a fucking stupid move. Care to share with the class what long term solution you accomplished?
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If your friend will come and talk with me, I can make an informed decision from there.
[ For as growly and anti-patient as Adrien was, the doctor was remarkably strict when it came to the heavy duty medications. He didn't just dispense them like Pez, even if shoving pills at a patient might get that patient out of his face sooner rather than later. ]
I believe that at this time all we can hope to do is remain vigilant. I don't like to spread my particular brand of paranoia around, but the fact that people could have harbored this biologic without expressing any indicators of it's presence is ...
worrisome.
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[Though that conversation with Liquid is giving him some serious doubts. It's giving him way too many bad vibes. Hard to feel at ease with a doctor when he's advocating obliterating an entire group of people completely in such an earnest way.]
[On the plus side it's making him more sympathetic to Venom Snake's side of things. So that's good at least.]
I know comparisons get tiring, but the one I witnessed had some sort of activator. In our case, it was a language. [As unlikely as that sounds.] It could be there's a very unlikely trigger no one would think to look for.
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Ultimately, no one is going to be able to help him, unless he wants to get that help and sometimes you have to be ready to ask in order to pursue that path.
[ Another knock, perhaps, against Adrien. He didn't tend to try to shove his medical superiority on anyone. If a patient didn't want treatment, Adrien wasn't going to harangue them into accepting it.
Respect for a patient's free will was a big thing with the prickly doctor. ]
The comparisons only get tiresome if they start to cause us to try to fit the evidence into that pattern, rather than allow what we know to draw it's own unique conclusion.
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I was usually the one that looked after him and presented him with options back home. [He's kind of like the fussy wife, sadly.] That's another thing about it, though. His symptoms worsened after we visited the asteroid.
[Miller's at this point assuming he must have worked for someone like Skull Face. And if he knew the truth, he'd guess he wasn't that wrong.]
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Given the identifiers we were able to isolate, that would make sense.
The brain is a very complex organ, perhaps more so than any other organ in the human body. It holds it's secrets close and it is ruthless in the way it acts to preserve itself.
This is part of what makes treating severe head trauma such a challenge and why most doctors will choose to induce a coma in a patient and give the brain time to effectively treat itself without the stress of running the body.
It's quite remarkable actually, what the brain can do for itself.
But from a medical standpoint, this means we have to be cautious of our outside influence. Hence why I wouldn't just sign off a script for heavy duty medications without a work-up.
However, if your friend was on that asteroid, that means his mind was subjected to those changes I mentioned. Given that his brain is already in ... recovery mode if you will ... it makes sense he would be more vulnerable to these effects.
You'll want to ensure that whoever treats him, is aware of all these factors.
[ Go forth and fussy wife, Miller. ]
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I'll see if I can get him to come in.
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