Email to Hank, Moira and Cecilia

[x-madelyn.livejournal.com]

To: [dungeon denizens]
From: [donut queen]



Hi all,

Since we have that lovely shiny new x_medical community (thanks, Hank!), I was thinking about the uses of it, and about improving communication for everyone who does stuff in the medlab. Which means not just us. We have three 'helpers' on call at the moment, Rahne, Clarice and Amanda, and I was wondering if we wanted to include them on the list. Mainly because it would be a place to ask for help without alerting the whole school to prospective problems (such as the X-Men mission to retrieve Nathan). It would certainly make things easier that way.

Thoughts? Anything else people wanted to discuss?

Maddie

PS: Pay no attention to Cecilia. I had four beers and that was it. The nap was because none of us has had a full quotient of sleep lately. :P

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Reply to Madelyn, Moira and Hank

[x-reyes.livejournal.com]

To: [beer and pool], [caffeine free], [blue tumbleweed dispenser]
From: [dateless]
Subject: Re: New journal community.

Why, hello there.

It probably wouldn't be a bad idea to include the munchkins.. though I think there would need to be some Laws of the Land laid down before they were given access. Teenagers are gossips, and the community's partially there to stave off gossip, so we need to know they won't go blabbing about the next medical emergency we want kept under wraps if we give them the responsibility.

Giving them the additional insight might also be good for them. It's a safe, sneak peek at the sort of life we lead and what we have to deal with on a disgustingly regular basis. If they aren't serious about medicine and don't want to deal with all the nonsense, it's better they find out early.

C. Reyes

[x-beast.livejournal.com]

To: [War, Pestilence and Famine]
From: [The GLORY days of the Republic]
Sub: Re: New journal community

All good points. And why yes, now that you mention it, I do have a handful of, shall we say, requirements in terms of the Laws of the Land, as Cecelia put it. I had a Number One, but as Cecelia mentioned gossip, It has been pushed back to Two.

Number One being that what is said on the list is privledged information, and if said information ends up among the population at large without one of us claiming ultimate responsibility, then we reserve the right to be very grumpy doctors indeed. For that matter, the same policy should be extended to medlab in general, perhaps, but that is a somewhat more public forum, technically. The reason for this one should be an obvious principle of patient/caretaker confidentiality, but perhaps it should be laid out in certain terms.

Number Two being that decisions made by staff are final, not susceptible to debate, and change on our own recognizance. And that will simply have to be accepted, no ifs ands or buts. We have our reasons, and good ones, and that shall have to be explanation enough. I don't relish halting in the middle of a crisis to explain why we don't need more underfoot, or end up arguing whether the effects of heavy radiation on the body is something that children should or shouldn't be allowed to witness.

This more or less boils down to a reminder of what sort of place medlab is. It is a privledge, not a right, earned and given, not open for the taking. It is a place where life and death have occassion to meet rather often, and where there can often be very little room for error. Like most of the basement, it is not, strictly speaking, a place for children. While we allow certain students with an interest to come down and learn "on the job", so to speak... it isn't a classroom, and the situations are not hypothetical. An unfortunate reality, but one that must be lived with, and at least of late, it hasn't been understood to my satisfaction, as harsh as that may sound.

Hank

No arguements here... (reply to all)

[x-madelyn.livejournal.com]

Well put as always, Hank. :) And yes, the kids we have helping do need to remember that this is real, and that what we say goes - I wouldn't have taken Clarice so much to task otherwise. I'm including some lessons re ethics etc in our sessins, but yes, having the rules spelled out is an excellent thing.


Maddie

Re: No arguements here... (reply to all)

[x-beast.livejournal.com]

Yes, and thank you for that, incidentally. I do fear I was working up to a stomping-fit by the time I was free enough to peruse that portion of the journalling.

Hank