037: VIDEO

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[Chase is sitting on the edge of a bed in one of the hospital clinic's exam rooms. Behind him the door is open just enough to show a packed out waiting room.

He's holding a small thermometer.]

It's time to stop by the hospital if: one of these is showing above 103°F and you're a normal adult human. Other species can use their discretion.

If you've got a headache that painkillers won't put a dent in, and it's stuck around for more than a day, or it's shown up with a fever like the one above in tow.

Trouble staying conscious is another good call on when to come in and see me.

[He glances over his shoulder.]

If you're feeling great right now and don't know what I'm talking about: good. Avoid crowded places and hopefully you won't pick it up. Anyone who thinks they might be coming down with something and doesn't want to pass it on to the unwary should avoid crowded places, too. Unless it's this one. We're getting to people as fast as we can.

Meanwhile, if whoever's running the rebuild could figure out what's happened to the plumbing, that would be great.

[He hops off the bed and goes to the sink to turn on the tap at the wall. It's dry.]

I guess we can't blame it on something in the water.


[OOC: consider this a CATCH ALL post for anyone specifically wanting to come and see Chase at the hospital over the next few days, though he'll be doing the rounds of other people's posts, too. I will be a little slow over the next couple of days because, uh, graduation *\o/* but backtags are forever.]

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[brobeforehos]

What's wrong with the plumbing?

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there's a distinct lack of water in it. even the fountain's running low.

[brobeforehos]

I hope no-one lands there now.

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me too, we're getting short of beds.

( audio ) omg graduating congrats

[studmuffin]

[ He'd figured the whole skull trying to rip itself apart from the inside was something left-over from overstimulation. He's almost used to them. But with it had come lethargy and that he's not really known for.

It's just a headache. It's totally just a headache. Too many nights thinking about alphas, not enough sleep.

He's not getting sick and he's not telling Chase that, yo. ]

Does the offer include CPR? [ Ah yes, patented method of getting information. ] 'Cause the line's gonna be all the way around the City and I need to get Twizzlers.

( audio ) brb polishing my shiny new worthless degree

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No, I try to minimise mouth to mouth contact with the potentially contagious.

[He doesn't pick up on the subterfuge going on here, but then he thinks Stiles is probably old enough to be able to tell him when something hurts.]

You should be safe to make a grocery run.

( audio ) ahahahaha degree feels are so the worst

[studmuffin]

[ He is SO old enough but it's okay he will come to you when he can no longer stand up. You can catch him, it'll be hot. ]

I can hear the weeping all the way in the forest, you're breaking this city apart.

( audio ) yaaaaaaay.... now what. & etc.

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Nice. Makes up for the number of women who've told me they have a headache today.

[That's right, use your fever to cover up the swooning.]

[unflagging]

So there is something going around. Good to know, good to know.

Hey, watch out for yourself there, doc. You know you're at risk too.

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There's something going around; we're still working on how. Contagion's more likely than coincidence.

I do know. Fortunately I'm in this for the adrenaline.

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I'll bet it's airborne. All the best ones are airborne.

Well, hey, then I think you've just hit the motherlode.

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Actually surprisingly few of the big names work that way. TB and measles just got so popular people started thinking all the cool kids were like them. The real paydirt's in blood and faeces.

Which might explain why I'm careful about gloves.

[mortemscintilla]

A big yes to the 'Feeling great right now and don't know what you're talking about.'

Except now I sort of want to board myself up in my apartment and not touch a single living thing.

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Occasionally the habits of the obsessive paranoiac are a reasonable model for living.

Doesn't need to be that extreme. Right now it seems like a nasty bug going round, not something new and fatal passed down from monkeys.

[mortemscintilla]

[ The model is especially reasonable when you deal in wetwork. (Not that this obsessive paranoiac needs encouragement.) ]

Or it might be a curse. Trying to emulate the ugly side-effects of the bushmeat trade. [ A queasy look passes over his face. ] Now I'm going to have nightmares about monkeys for weeks...

Yay graduation?

[anunluckypenny]

Do you guys need any extra help at the hospital?

Kiiinda

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Keeping an eye out for anyone becoming symptomatic at the Welcome Centre and sending them this way would probably help us the most.

[anunluckypenny]

You've got it.

[The flickering-out-of-existence thing that her hands have started doing doesn't seem like the kind of thing that's worth mentioning to a doctor when there's an actual plague going around.]

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[It feels like a win-win to him. Keeping Penny away from the high infection risk at the hospital and getting all possible disease vectors away from her. He'll feel less clever for missing the other symptoms later.]

You might want to send someone out for bottled water. There's something up with the city's supply - hopefully it's nothing but-

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[medicos]

How much do you know on the subject of radiation poisoning?

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i've treated a few nasty cases. a kid, his dad and half his college class a few years back.

...the profile's not a bad fit, but not enough of them are presenting with nausea. gut typically preempts head. still, worth looking at.

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[medicos]

[ it takes him a moment to respond. it's not that he doesn't trust chase - doctors are doctors and he's asked around enough to know who's reliable around ( it turns out a lot of them are, who knew? ). it's just that this might be a shot at the dark, it might be just jim. ]

I have one case with me. He's showing all the symptoms of someone who's been exposed to a large dose, around the same time as all these people started getting sick. It's like whatever's floating around the city triggered a relapse.

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[anatural]

[After her physical therapy appointment, Korra decides to poke her head into Dr. Chase's office and see how he's doing.]

Hey.

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[He's busy, but not so much that he can't look up from the whiteboard.]

Korra. [He gets half way to the smile before a frown overtakes it.] Don't tell me you're getting sick, too?

[anatural]

Nope. I'm fit as a sabertooth mooselion. Kind of. [holding up her cane with a wry grin] I just thought I'd stop by and say hi.