057. Diagnosis

[vicodincrutch]

Shut up. Shut up. Will everyone shut up. Playing doctor is fun isn't it? Playing doctor when there is no authority? Not only is that dangerous and likely not the fun sexy kind, it is stupid. To anyone who is ready to believe in something because it is on the network and a nice person said it, the consequences are all yours. Enjoy.

Let's do this the old fashioned way. Screw vaccines, screw advice columns. You're sick? Consult a doctor. Can't get out of bed? Call a doctor to you. Still incapable of that? Get someone to get a doctor. You're ill. So what. You're not a victim unless you act like one. Have dignity. And those of the medical community, your bleeding hearts and boredom are showing. Better get that checked. Chase could do better. That is an insult to let you know.

That survey that my name as attached to? Hypothetical vaccination. You know, data gathering before hand? It's something that intelligent people do. After which comes a process of study. A long one. Do you people really think that the process is fast? There is a testing period too.

Cold weather has a tendency to enhance preexisting medical conditions. I'm taking a taxi to work from now until March.

Comments

[bitingnightmare.livejournal.com]

Where's your punchline.

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

It called in sick today.

[bitingnightmare.livejournal.com]

Boring. Russia won't even score you.

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

In Soviet Russia it scores you.

[eiremagic]

No one's going to listen to you. They're all to bloody stupid.

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

This would be my reference for the part where I say "I told you so" for later in our program.

[eiremagic]

Well I listened to you.

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

Let's mark this occasion. I'm having cake tonight.

[eiremagic]

So how sick are you?

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

I'm not. I want cake. You did something that is worth a slice however rare it may be.

[eiremagic]

Fine. I'll bring you a cake.

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

So how sick are you?

[eiremagic]

I don't get sick.

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

And yet you're buying the cake. You're either sad, pitying me or getting ready for a bribe besides wanting cake.

[eiremagic]

Maybe I like to make sure you don't bitch at people.

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

There isn't enough cake in the world. I hope you know that.

[holymadonna.livejournal.com]

It was worth the effort and the pizza. Now all we have to do is wait if the deity campaign is successful or unleash something worse and be ready for a potential crisis in our hands.

How are you feeling?

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

A good scout is always prepared. Besides having pocket knives. You actually liked the pizza? Shock and awe.

Fine.

[holymadonna.livejournal.com]

I am uncomplicated in my preferences.

Honestly, Doctor House.

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

I like how you avoided saying "I'm easy."

Cold weather makes me stiff in an unpleasant and painful way.

[holymadonna.livejournal.com]

Ah, thank you. That's a compliment from you.

Cold makes you sick, you mean. Did you catch the flu?

[House]

Miss Mac Cionaoith contacted me yesterday.

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

You're learning.

I'm not sick. It's my leg. The temperature doesn't help when I wake up. Or after I've been sitting awhile.

Private

About what? She knows how to use condoms already.

[holymadonna.livejournal.com]

What are you taking to ease the pain? Perhaps I could offer alternatives.

[House]

She has to do community service at the Hospital and I don't know what is her field. She told me you do.

[lyra-of-dust.livejournal.com]

I'd like to think everyone here's bright enough to avoid taking whatever the deities offer. But that's too optimistic of me.

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

Deities nothing. Everyone is an medical authority. We're so healthy it is sickening, clearly.

[lyra-of-dust.livejournal.com]

Are you talking about the lady acting like a nursemaid on the network?

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

Her and others. It's a choir of know-it-alls.

[blackeyedskank.livejournal.com]

Someone is grou-chy.

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

And right. Don't forget that part.

[blackeyedskank.livejournal.com]

I can't forget if you keep reminding me.

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

Pst! That's the point.

[eduronox.livejournal.com]

Beat you to it.

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

The next beer is on me. Provided there was a first one.

The presentation was boring and forgettable. Definitely you.

[baixin.livejournal.com]

It seems like there are some who will hinder your study with Doctor Lilith, even though she clearly stated it would take time.

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

Seems? Call it like it is. There's a blockage. Frankly, I don't care. I'm not going to be the moral compass. And I'm not going to treat the sick if they're going to be stupid enough to not think for themselves.

[baixin.livejournal.com]

Well yes. I tried telling him he was narrow-minded in so many words, but that didn't work. Yes, well people ought to be able to choose; if he has his way, they won't be able to.

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

People should fight to make their own choices. Especially if it involves them.

[baixin.livejournal.com]

I intend to.

What do you make of these 'vaccines' the deities are giving out? I think if people trust them, they're fools. Trusting beings that give us the curses isn't smart by any stretch.

[tinyvampiregod.livejournal.com]

I would like to hire you to teach me how to draw blood from humans in a sterile way.

...without fangs.

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

I would like a motorcycle.

[tinyvampiregod.livejournal.com]

I would offer my pony, but he bites.

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

A motorcycle has several horses involved.

[tinyvampiregod.livejournal.com]

None nearly as interesting as my own.

Will you or won't you, doctor? I'm a good student.