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#106: Doctor
A little bit later, a different lady, not the nurse, also dressed in scrubs, entered his room. She was smiling.
“That escalated rather quickly I see.” She looked at Josh and smiled. Josh instinctually trusted her more than he’d trusted the doctor.
“I’m the real Doctor.” She said. “My name is Dr. Theresa Lull.”
“She’s clean. No wire that I can tell.” Yvette told him “I still advise caution. Don’t go all motormouth.”
Josh had no intention of motor-mouthing. The bogus Dr. Zorba had spooked him. He realized that he was in a hostile environment now, much like high school.
“You handled that perfectly” Dr. Lull told him. “Serves them right for trying to fool you.”
Josh said nothing.
She just smiled, she hadn’t expected him to be chatty.
“The news media get more annoying every day.”She said “He must have had major pull with the administrators to be able to do that. We have ‘ethic’s boards you know. Ethics boards are very expensive to buy. They have standards. They don’t sell out to just any Tom, Dick and Harry. I wonder how much that lapse of ‘ethics’ cost? Hmmm. I wonder if that’s what…..well never mind. I’m a doctor not an administrator. How are you feeling?”
“I’m feeling fine” he told her truthfully. “A little hungry.”
“They haven’t fed you?” she sounded surprised. “I’ll see that they do so right after I examine you. Take off your clothes please.”
Josh was shocked. Take off his clothes in front of a woman?
“Ulp” he gulped. “ All of them?”
Dr. Lull smiled again. “Yes please, all but your underwear…you can leave them on for now.”
“Sissy” Yvette giggled “I don’t have any clothes on in front of YOU…you don’t seem to mind THAT too much. Turn about is fair play isn’t it? Maybe she likes boys? I certainly do.”
“Well…ok.” Josh said. He was trying his best to avoid looking at Yvette. She was entirely too chipper and perky for the present situation. She was making it difficult for him. He did as he was bid. He was sitting mostly naked in a room with a, not half bad looking, older female and another younger one who was drop dead gorgeous and naked as well. He looked around for something to put in his lap. A sheet? A towel? Anything?
Nope, didn’t find anything. Too late. The doctor gave him a VERY thorough examination.
“ I don’t see any reason to order any more MRI’s, PET Scans or any more of the other tests. Lord knows you’ve had tests enough. You seem healthy. Remarkably so considering what you’ve been through. Every thing is normal except for the exceptionally high oxygen content in your blood. It’s much like an Andean Indian or a highly trained athlete. The only other abnormality is the record of your heart rate…it spikes rather high on occasion..” She said and she grinned.” Much like it is now. I wonder why that is.”
Josh knew why. Yvette had a lot to do with it he imagined. Yvette was being silly. She was wiggling and making faces at him. She was trying to make him laugh.
“You ARE a miracle boy” the doctor told him. “You really should be dead. That branch actually scraped against your heart. If it had been a quarter inch over…well it wouldn’t have been good. You healed amazingly quickly. A great many of my colleagues would love to keep you locked up for the rest of your life to study. They wouldn’t admit it but they would if they could. It’s not every day someone is impaled and lives to tell about it. Our professional curiosity makes us want to know why. Do you have mutant wolverine blood?”
She looked pensive for a moment. Josh didn’t know if it was a serious comment. Yvette’s antics was NOT making it easy for him. He tried to keep his eyes off her. It was hard. She was SO easy on the eye.
“However.” The doctor continued “There are other, minor details. The law for example, ethics, common decency and monetary constraints. We won’t do that.”
She signed theatrically “What can we do? I guess we’ll just have to let you go.”
She smiled a little to mute the threat. Josh wasn’t sure if she was joking or serious.
“You can leave tomorrow morning. We’re releasing you. She smiled at Josh’s reaction “ That’s another thing. I have no idea why you have a private room. A charity patient, such as yourself, is usually in a ward. You lucked out for some reason. Possibly you have an unknown benefactor?”
Josh was alarmed. Did she know about Yvette? It must have shown on his face. Thankfully the doctor totally misinterpreted his expression. She said “Oh don’t worry. I’m not going to turn you in. It’s probably just a computer glitch. Enough people suffer from those. I’m not going spoil it for someone who benefits. It all evens out I think.”
Yvette said “You’re welcome. I jiggered the computer system for you. I’m the new Daemon Mark III model . I come with a built in hacker suite, wi-fi and bluetooth.”
She batted her eyes at Josh from behind the doctor. “Wait till I show you some of my other options.”
The Doctor was blissfully unaware.
Josh was out to sea. He was so confused, not to say a little bit panicked. What would happen if the doctor noticed Yvette? He kept his mouth shut and didn’t say anything. He tried, very hard, to pay attention to what the doctor said. Yvette was NOT making it easy.
“Get a good meal today and don’t forget breakfast tomorrow before you leave. You’re a growing boy and you need to eat.. A hunk like you, an athlete from the looks of your blood work, needs to keep up your strength. I bet you get all the girls.” The doctor looked resigned “if I were only a few years younger…oh well.”
“Have a nice night.” She smiled and left.
“ Kitty kitty, nice cougar.” Yvette quipped “ You get all the girls huh? Let’s go eat. You first, then me.”
Josh blushed even redder, if that was possible. Yvette could make anything sound suggestive. He dressed and went looking for chow.
The Next Episode is
#107: Grazing for Smoke Food…
The Previous Episode was
#105: Paparazi…
the First episode was
#1 : Prologue
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Sometimes I also comment on the news
Sometimes it's hard to tell fiction from the news.
@everittdmickey, your writing sometimes makes me lost for a while....sometime become curious....nice episode!
They brought the food to me when I was in the hospital, of course I didn't have a little daemon to fix the computers, and put me in a private room, well maybe I did, because I don't remember sharing my room with anyone. So maybe I got one of those daemon things in my head, and I just don't know how to talk to it.
actually we all do.
Marvin Minsky called them 'agents'
Walter John Williams took the idea and ran with it.
Aristoi
note: being a member of the master race I've never been sick or in a hospital. I just assumed that they woke you up at dawn with bugles and marched you to the chow hall.
is that not right?
Nice episode❤❤❤
I can't wait to read the grazing from a smoke food
probably it's not what you think.
stay tuned for the next exciting episode.
Okay
I must say I find the narration is pretty addictive with intense atmosphere, but also sense of humor. As myself i experienced, in face of doctors we all become some little lambs and we put all our trust in them. We find ourselves helpless and we must rest on the others to get us through such hard moments.
more to come..
OR
you could start at the beginning if you haven't already.
I'll try to keep up, thanks ;)
Hi @everittdmickey - First one of these I have read. I really enjoyed it. Going to scroll back and read some of the earlier ones now. Thanks for sharing.
glad you like it.
there's a link at the bottom of each one
that connected to Number one.
all of the episodes are linked to the Next, to the previous, as well as to number one.
every ten episodes there is also a table of contents linking every episode to that point.
Number One............#1 : Prologue
Thanks @everittdmickey. I saw the links and will catch up on the episodes!
They have standards, they don't just sell out to anyone... 😄
Have you watched any of the Natural Man - Ernie Tertelgte? His Natural Man logic seems very rationale in his truth. His recent diatribe regarding the Montana private prison revenue must grind on the politicians.
Nice
Keep it up