From: V. Rahul Chandra (vrccan_at_gmail.com)
Date: Sun May 27 2007 - 04:10:50 PDT
========== "Discussion" Con't from Jerome's "The End Times" ========== Location: GS-2 Stardate: 2422 [2.7] 0527.0642 Scene: Sickbay Jeff was seated at the desk in his office, drumming his fingers thoughtfully on the table as he thought about the autopsy he'd just run. Something about the autopsy was bugging him and he wasn't entirely sure exactly what it was. He wasn't even really sure that his fears were founded on anything as at the moment to him they just seemed like instinct. He'd been a doctor long enough to know that sometimes instincts needed to be trusted and that's why he was at his desk in thought right now. "You wanted to see me Doctor?" Jeff's attention was distracted by the voice at his door and he nodded up at his assistant. "Yes Mr. Roke, please have a seat," Jeff said, causing the other man to take the seat offered and look across at his boss questioningly. Jeff was silent for a few moments, figuring out exactly what it was he wanted to say in his mind and Roke shifted uncomfortably a few times whilst staring at the Chief Medical Officer in confusion. Finally, Jeff just shook his head and slid a PADD across his desk to Roke, who snatched it up quickly and started reading. "It's the autopsy report on the man that was murdered and partially skinned," Jeff said as Alec kept on reading. "I wanted someone else to take a look at it for a fresh perspective." Alec nodded, but his eyes were still focused on the PADD in front of him. Finally, he whistled slightly to himself and placed the report back on the table. "That's some slick work," he commented. Jeff nodded, leaning back in his chair and adding the PADD back to his stack of active reports. "Slick is exactly the word I was thinking to myself when I did the autopsy," he commented. "Most of the crimes we see around here are not really that slick. They're either crimes of passion or they're deaths in the line of duty." He frowned slightly, that feeling still nagging at his subconscious. "There's something different about this one," he said. "What are your thoughts on the matter sir?" Alec asked, prodding his superior for more information. Jeff shook his head slightly. "It's been my experience that criminals tend to mess things up most of the time," he said. "There are usually some glaring mistakes at a crime scene, but there don't appear to be that many here; at least not yet. But it's not just the circumstances surrounding the crime, but the crime itself that has me slightly disturbed." "How so sir?" Jeff shook his head again. "I'm not sure. It's just.a feeling." He took the PADD off his stack and scrolled to a particular section, before scanning it and then passing it across to his assistant. "Read that part again and see if anything strikes you as standing out or peculiar in any way." Alec did as instructed, before turning and looking back up at his assistant. "Nothing sir," he said. "Unless you're talking about how precise some of the cuts were." "Not some of the cuts," Jeff answered. "All of the cuts. The best ones could have been done by an award winning surgeon and even the others were still bordering on surgical precision." Alec didn't really understand where his boss was going, so he chose to remain silent as Jeff continued. "To me, that suggests a number of things potentially. It might suggest a person who has committed a crime like this before, or it might suggest a person that has some sort of medical training in their background. But it also might suggest the use of an instrument that was very precise." "A very sharp hand knife could make some of these cuts," Alec observed. "Especially if it were in the hands of someone who had medical training before." "It could," Jeff conceded that point. "In my view though, it's also equally likely that they were using a very precise instrument. Something like a scalpel." "Does it make a difference?" Alec asked. "I guess not," Jeff answered reluctantly. "Scalpels are harder to purchase than knives though; if it was indeed a scalpel, we might be able to track it through the medical distributors and the independent practices on this station." "Well, we can certainly do that," Alec said. "I can get someone on inventory here to make sure that all of our instruments are still accounted for." "Do that," Jeff advised. "In the meantime, I'll contact the independent practices in the area and see if everything's good with them." ============== NRPG: Just adding to Jeff's investigation a bit. ============== Rahul Chandra <vrccan_at_gmail.com> Lieutenant Commander Jeffrey Gorman, MD Chief Medical Officer GS-2 From HyperNews_at_youth.net
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