TLV: IC INBOX

[roci]

IC inbox for James Holden.

Comments

[roci]

It's not when you least want to, it's supposed to be something you pick because you know you need help. Nobody comes to doctors when they're healthy, it's when you've got a crushed leg and you're out of your mind with how much it hurts.

[ninefox]

People go to doctors when their damage makes them a liability.

Doctors are Vidona. Pain is just another tool to put people's minds where they belong.

[roci]

And the Barge hasn't given you enough experience of doctors with different motivations?

You realize that most worlds on the Barge have doctors take an oath that is "first, do no harm"?

[ninefox]

Most of them have not.

[The barge being largely staffed with volunteers who keep their off-duty options open.]

Enough?

[roci]

Just seems like there's a lot of medical things going down, all the time.

[ninefox]

[He makes a tight, pinched sort of impression.]

Let me try a different angle.

James. Do you believe I am insufficiently motivated to graduate?

[roci]

[ This actually gives Holden some pause. ]

Is the alternative going back, or just staying here?

[ninefox]

The alternative is that I fail my mission.