X-Medical Comm - Private Communications for Medica

Amanda Sefton's medlab access and access to this community have been revoked. She will not be allowed to set foot in medlab unless she herself is sick or injured and then she should be referred immediately to one of the doctors. If you see her around medlab at all, please tell one of us or Kuk without delay.

I was just checking Haroun's EEG for yesterday, and there's a few spikes I really don't like. Can the doctors three spare a moment to give me a second opinion? Given what happened with Betsy yesterday, I want to make sure he's not about to go into grand mal seizures again.

So, considering our mystery benefactor's call yesterday, it looks like we've got a way to attack this thing. Provided the info checks out, of course. I formally call brainstorming session.

Follows an all-doctors page to attend at the medlab.

We've got a situation, people. Team's on its way back from a job, and Haroun's been seriously injured. Initial stats are not looking good. Plus, as an added bonus, we've got some sort of deadly infection to deal with, possibly a biological weapon. All information is up on the medlab files, and I'm prepping the isolation lab as we speak. Emergency biohazard protocols to be implemented on landing.

Jean, there's a hazmat suit prepped and waiting for you - we'll need your TK to isolate Haroun from hanger to lab. Moira, Hank, we'll need you out in the lab proper - you've got the expertise with genetics and biochemistry, and there's no way either of you are coming close to a probable fatal contagion.

Forge, Paige, we'll need you both working on this one - apparently Haroun's suffered some extensive damage to the cybernetics. Details unclear as yet, but you'll be updated as soon as we are.

Clarice, Rahne and Amanda, you'll be assisting Hank and Moira. Students will not be entering the iso lab under any circumstances. Considering we still have another critical patient, there will be plenty for you to do.

Batten down the hatches and put on the industrial pot of coffee - it's going to be a long night.

Since the medlab needs it, and things are relatively quiet at the moment, and Jean and I agree, it's time to declare Friday our annual "Clean Up Medlab From Top To Bottom" Day. All helpers and staff to report bright and early - Moira, you get to be supervisor. There's a hat and a badge and everything. *grins* If we all pitch in, we'll get it done in plenty of time for the traditional pizza and soda session by the pool in the afternoon.

So, Docs 1 and 3 back on deck (although with the original Doc 1 back, we really ought to renumber ourselves... *g*), and just wanting to know what we've got. A check of the files shows Paige is still with us, but making great leaps forward, yes? And Amanda's back in - Moira, does your note here say she should stay one more night? Looks like you wrote this in a hurry.

Hank's on nightshift tonight, since it looks like I'll have an errand to run for Charles in the city tomorrow, but my turn next time.

Just a heads-up for the medlab crew re the situation with Paige.

For now - and until Jean and/or Charles say otherwise - Paige will be in isolation. She's in a fairly delicate mental and emotional state aside from her physical condition, and it's for her benefit that it's the case, not because we're being evil overlords. She herself has requested that she not see anyone for now, and we're respecting that wish. To that end, the only people allowed to see her are Jean and the Professor. Yes, that includes Hank, Moira (should she be back while Paige is still in iso) and myself. I'm keeping an eye on things while Jean gets some rest, but only insofar as can be done from out here.

I know you're all worried about her - so am I - but I think we need to remember that we're doing this for Paige's benefit, not to punish or be unreasonable to anyone else. So your patience is appreciated, and as soon as things change, we'll let you know.

Hey team. :)

First of all, thank you to everyone for the steller work you did yesterday, helping me keep sane and deal with the workload. And welcome back to Moira, who I'm sure we're all glad to see.

So, now the business part...

Shifts. Since we're down to two doctors, and we're both going to be working pretty hard on things, Moira and I have gone over the schedules and cut back the actual overnight shifts, as long as the medlab is free of actual patients. That may change, in which case we're back to actual warm bodies in the observation room, but for now, there's two eight-hour shifts. Moira's covering the morning, I'm taking the afternoon, and we'll be calling on the helpers in rotation, since there's three of you and two of us.

That of course is the official coverage - as you can understand, Moira and I will be pulling a lot of research time trying to find out what's wrong with Hank, but we will be taking it responsibly: no repeats of my recent stunt, I promise. We expect the same of you guys - anyone overdoing it and getting silly with the not-sleeping (and overindulging in Red Bull consumption) will find themselves on the wrong end of a sedative. And that applies to me as well - if I end up in the state I was in the other night, Moira has full permission to tranq me as much as she likes.

Forge and Paige will continue working on Haroun's issues with the cyberware, freeing Moira and I up to work on Hank. As yet we still don't know what's causing his condition, but it is noticeably getting worse. If it continues at the rate it's going, he's going to need a lot of help getting around and such by next week. I will be still working on Haroun's rehab, since his back still needs work, and Moira's arranged a roster for the same with Cain, which the helpers and those Red X trained people can deal with, under Moira's supervision.

We've also got people keeping an eye on us, our food consumption, and our sleeping. There's no excuses for neglecting any of it, for any of us.

Um, that's all I can think of for now. It's going to be a crap couple of weeks, but if we continue with the team work as we've started, we'll get through it. All of us.

And yes, I'm going to bed now - beeper numbers are posted.

Hank? Can I get you to come down here and give me a hand? It seems Jay and Kyle decided beating the crap out of each other was an appropriate form of dialogue. I need someone to sit on Mr "I Have A Healing Factor" while one of the girls goes and raids the kitchen for fuel, since I'm busy with Kyle at the moment. Nothing serious, and his healing factor will deal with the injuries, but he needs calming down.

So we're all on the same page...

1) Medlab helpers. You're off the hook for the holidays. With our patient load down to just Cain and Jono, you're free to go home etc for as long as you need the time off. Considering the stress we've all been under lately, that's anticipated to be at least a few days. If you've volunteered for Cain duty, that's fine - the number of volunteers means we've got lots of room to play with on the schedule.

2) Moira. Is getting both Christmas and New Year's to spend with her finacee at Muir Island. No arguments, woman, the roster's already written, in ink even, so you can't be sneaky and change it when we're not looking. ;) She's leaving the 23rd, I believe, and will be back I think a few days after the 1st. No rush, though.

3) Hank. Gets New Year's off. I believe skiing was mentioned. And snow bunnies. *snickers* He's leaving on the 28th, after I get back, so we're covered. Back on the 5th.

4) Madelyn. Which would be me. I'm off for Christmas, leaving the 23rd and back on the afternoon of the 28th. I'll be on for New Year's, and then I'm taking a couple of days (the 6th-8th January) to go to San Francisco with Jubilee.

In case of emergency, our beeper numbers are all in the usual places, and Charles has a locum or two he can secure at short notice should something really catastrophic occur...