video | un: r.chambers

[herbmixing]

Hi, everyone. My name's Rebecca.

[ The video opens on a small, homey apartment, filled with plants and books. Rebecca sits at a small piano, a mug of coffee steaming by her side. She looks...tired, really. It's been a difficult few weeks.

But that's no reason not to keep trying. ]

I was just wondering...what's the state of medicine like in your world? I had thought we were on the cutting-edge back home, but with everything I've seen here, you realise just how far we have to go. Considering everything that happens to us so regularly here, it can be really easy to lose track of your health.

I'm a field medic and a chemist, so I'd never call myself a doctor, but I still wanted to extend an offer to everybody: if you need someone to patch you up or do a quick check-up, call me. If you need medicine - over-the-counter stuff, obviously, not anything serious - then I'll run it over or get someone to deliver it to you. Just... [ She gives a weak smile. ] I want to help a little more, and I don't think being okay with a handgun really holds up against everything others can do, you know?

...anyway, I'm rambling. [ She looks down, playing an idle few bars of a melody. ] I've been staying in a lot. Watching old Disney movies, mostly, and I ended up working on this...

[ She adjusts the sheet music and sets her fingers in position. What follows is a nice little rendition with very few errors. Being able to just concentrate on something helps, a lot. Once it's done, she flashes a quick, embarrassed smile at the camera, then leans over and shuts it off. ]

Comments

video; un: laurea

[wearingguess]

I know shamefully little about my world's medicine, though I am certain it lags behind what is possible here. But I believe our high-level healing magic is at least at a comparable level, and it's being further developed all the time.

More importantly, though—that was beautiful! Did you say you composed it yourself?

text | j.valentine

[torsion]

You've gotten a lot better. :)

video; u/n lynx

[jadedlynx]

Medicine back in New York can't compare to what stuff they have here but as dangerous as it was, it's not as dangerous as this place can be either. With technology, the cities here are a lot more advanced.

text; un: professeur

[sycamour]

[Sycamore listened to that entire recital with a smile; he's not sure if Rebecca is quite up to talking to him over the video (or at all, really), but it's hard to resist just...sending a quick message.]

That was beautiful. Have you been well?

[Let's...start with that. At least she looks like she's been all right.]

video

[realimperfect]

I think my world was actually more advanced than here, with their medical technology. Or at least what was available to me was more advanced than what is offered here on the .. few times I've needed medical attention.

[ Re-L pauses for a moment, and then decides that perhaps an example may be helpful, tucking a piece of her dark hair behind her ear in the moment, shifting in her seat. ] I was attacked in my home in my world and on the few scrapes I had my doctor could apply a bandage, spray them with a special spray and those healed without a scar in a few days. He stitched the cut on my face for the sake of a smaller scar if one appeared but used the same spray, same result.

[ She touches her right cheek right at the crest to indicate where it might have marked her, though she's obviously wearing make up, and so perhaps is not illustrating her point in the best way about her skin being unmarred in the end. ]

... In my world it is also possible to have children grown in an incubation chamber called the wombsys, which is my main thought as to why it is more advanced there. Or rather, was..

Video; un: moonfang

[vizard_did_it]

I know what you mean. My old man runs a clinic, so I figured I'd seen about all there was to see when it came to medical stuff. If this is any sign, the future's gonna be even crazier.

[video] I hope it's not too late to comment!

[spah]

Beautiful playing if you don't mind my sayin', miss.

[enter: extremely Texan dude]

To answer your question... well. This ain't exactly a widespread thing in my world, but another field medic I knew durin' a war I was part of invented a sort of... healing vapor. Wound up being a staple on the battlefield. I've built dispensers that put out the same gas.

So to make a long story short... I guess medicine's advanced in some ways more than others.