The most annoying thing about the cast on my arm was not that it made getting dressed into a chore, nor that it kept me from doing my clinic duties efficiently (no, the lingering headache and dizziness were what truly interfered with that). What annoyed me most of all was that I couldn't wash my hair properly without getting the cast wet. I had ( Read more... )

I had spent most of my time in the clinic sleeping, despite the chaos. This irritated me almost as much as the cast on my arm and the headache that simply would not go away. The headache was the reason I slept so much, as asleep, I could block it out for a little while. But most of all, I was irritated by the fact that from my bed I could look ( Read more... )

( medical history )

It was a relatively calm day in the clinic, so I had spent most of the day preparing an ointment for burns and scrapes. It was aloe-based, but I was experimenting with which of three herbal extracts made the most suitable additive. I had several small jars in my medicine box that had formerly held ointments I had prepared on the Ridge; those were ( Read more... )

This hasn't really been an issue yet; response to Claire has generally been positive, but I feel like there is a chance that some of what I am writing for her may be or has been misinterpreted, so I'd like to clear that up. It's probably only an issue if you are familiar with Outlander canon, but I am going to try to explain well for those of you ( Read more... )

The clinic was orderly and quiet, my lastest attempt at luring stray penicillin spores was resting innocently on a shelf, and my shift was almost done. I finished my notes on my most recent patients (including a detailed drawing of the splint I had put on James Lennox's hand), closed my casebook, and stashed it in the bottom of my medicine box. I ( Read more... )

Claire's entrance post, in which she comes from the Gathering on Mt. Helicon to find herself in the middle of the jungle at Tabula Rasa. A few moments later she encounters a severely injured Banky Edwards, and takes care of him as best she can before Qui-Gon Jinn comes along and offers his assistance. Between the two of them they get Banky to ( Read more... )

Um, warning! Kind of squicky, but morbidly amusing, if only for Claire's dry reaction to it. >.>

( Tropical Surgery: or, Eyeballs with Worms )

1) She is not a homophobe. However, her personal experience with gay women is nonexistent, and with gay men limited to a) Jack Randall, who raped, tortured, and tried to kill her husband and b) John Grey, who is hopelessly in love with her husband but would never lay a hand on him - and who she is a tiny bit jealous of, though she won't admit it ( Read more... )