A Day's Work

Posted on Thu Apr 5th, 2012 @ 10:42am by Commander Tressa Brislan

178 words; about a 1 minute read

Mission: Mission 78 - Colonial Uprising
Location: Sickbay
Timeline: current

"Doctor?"

Tressa finally looked up at the nurse, pulling down her mask then taking the padd from her hands. She indicated cause of death and signed the certificate, then handed it back to the nurse.

"Lieutenant, please inform Dr. King that we have another casualty," she said. The nurse nodded and left the room, leaving the surgical team to finish.

She started towards her office then remembered that Jonathan was still in there, working as his arm healed. She decided she needed a moment to collect herself. She had just lost her third patient that day, the third Andorian, and she had to inform his ships' command that he had died in surgery.

As a nurse she had often comforted friends and familiy of those who had died, but she had never been the one to break the news. She stared into the half-empty cup of coffee. Three of her first patients as a doctor had died, in only a few hours.

She took a deep breath, then downed the coffee and headed over to the Andorian Second.

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