From:		Jorith
Date:		21 January 1996 00:32
To:		U.S.S. Lafayette (BBS)
Subject:		RE: Lafayette Sickbay

<Ensign Gallagher - Sickbay>

	As is usual with the medical teams on a starship, one is either doing nothing or swamped with things to do. Aboard the Lafayette, the sickbay was in the latter catagory. All around Ensign Gallagher, nurses with medical equipment rushed from place to place. The assistant CMO, Lt. Barrett, was preping the Cheif Engineer, Kindle, for surgery. 
	The moment the zero-g team had been beamed aboard, Lt. Cmdr. Kindle had dropped to the deck with an agonizing scream. The stand-by medical team had quickly rushed to her and given her a hypospray to stop the pain. It had very little effect. They had taken her immediatly to sickbay and quickly removed her EVA suit, to reveal a darkly blackened spot on her back suggesting some kind of spinal trauma.
	Not soon after, the Senior Flight Control Officer, Lt. Beata, had collapsed on the bridge. He now lay groggily under Ensign Gallagher's care. His condition wasn't serious, but he would be kept here until the source could be accuratly diagnosed. Even now, as Gallagher looked across the sickbay, several others of the zero-g team were coming in - which kept the staff busy.
	She rose from Lt. Beata's side and moved to a nearby computer display. Remembering something she had read in a ship-wide memo, she said, "Computer, do we have confirmation on a new Chief Medical Officer?"
	"Lt. Bowers has been assigned as the Chief Medical Officer aboard the USS Lafayette."
	"Poor guy," she thought. "He just gets on board and already has a medical crisis to deal with. But was it any different for the rest of us?" As she thought back to Lt. Tarak, she tapped her comm badge. "Lt. Bowers, please report to sickbay for a medical emergency." Ensign Gallagher saw Lt. Barrett glance up at her and nod in her direction. Feeling good about taking the initiative for once, she when over to help the assistance CMO get the surgical support frame ready while they waited for the new CMO to arrive.