Hawk winces a little. Typical of Margaret to be all business, but here it's a real concern.
"Look, it's not pretty. Our range of pharmaceuticals is limited. If we didn't have a good apothecary from a version of Earth, I might be stuck putting leeches on people. But we have some basics, and painkillers at all, even if they're not the kind we'd use. Really the hard part is going to be anaesthetics, but we've been lucky- I haven't needed to put anyone under since I got here. A majority of the time we're looking at scrapes and sniffles. But I do mean 'a majority', when things get ugly then you're looking at- you know the aid station we went to? Picture that."
It's an easy shortcut that doesn't require him to explain things like 'an evil ship infested with bugs' or 'space creatures from the sky that wants to kill you'.
"But, some good news, we have a working X-Ray. So we have that going for us."
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"Look, it's not pretty. Our range of pharmaceuticals is limited. If we didn't have a good apothecary from a version of Earth, I might be stuck putting leeches on people. But we have some basics, and painkillers at all, even if they're not the kind we'd use. Really the hard part is going to be anaesthetics, but we've been lucky- I haven't needed to put anyone under since I got here. A majority of the time we're looking at scrapes and sniffles. But I do mean 'a majority', when things get ugly then you're looking at- you know the aid station we went to? Picture that."
It's an easy shortcut that doesn't require him to explain things like 'an evil ship infested with bugs' or 'space creatures from the sky that wants to kill you'.
"But, some good news, we have a working X-Ray. So we have that going for us."