<div class="floatleft">(http://i980.photobucket.com/albums/ae282/caela_ecub/Brunettes/jlc1_zps4bfbfaae-1.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Dr. Kara Gaius<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Hanger Deck, Med Bay<br/><strong>Tagged:</strong>Megan Chang, Erich<br/><br/><hr/><br/>While the pilots were making their way back to the ship, Kara was looking over her new med bay and trying not to squeal in delight! Clearly the fellow who had hired them on had spared no expense when it came to the medical care of those on this ship*. She was in her own, personal, version of heaven. She hadn't expected a bay that was so nearly well stocked and with equipment that wasn't nearly as old as she was! If Perkins had been standing in front of her just then she might have kissed him. She had known doctors, during her residency, who didn't have practices this well stocked!<br/><br/>Riding on an emotional high from her new med bay, she made her way down to the hanger deck and bounced slightly on her heels as she watched the Mech's come in. Those still in decent repair, or mostly so anyway, she utterly ignored, her attention instead focusing on those that had clearly taken damage. They were the most likely to have wounded in need of care and thus of the most interest to her. The techs were the first to the damaged Mechs while she moved through the bay doing a mental triage. Most of the pilots were fine, some a bit banged up, the majority with nothing that would need more than the attention of a medtech and, perhaps, some painkillers or antibiotics later.<br/><br/>Then she saw Erich. Anything else she might have been thinking of vanished as her long stride carried her to the Warrior who was being cared for competently enough...though she knew she could do better. Without though she started snapping off orders to the techs while examining Erich herself. She didn't bother pulling the metal in his side out just yet. It would hurt, and it was staunching the flow of blood that would otherwise be gushing from him.  Making sure he was as stable as he could be she glanced around and actually noticed Megan standing there gushing about the man's damaged Mech!<br/><br/>"Harass him later Megan!" she snapped, rolling her eyes at the woman before also flashing her a grin to take some of the sting out of her brusque words. If it had been anyone but Megan they'd have gotten a glare and probably a far sharper edge of her tongue, but she knew and liked the other woman so she wasn't as harsh as she could have been.<br/><br/>Pushing the gurney to the med bay, she kept up a steady stream of banal conversation just to get the pilot used to the sound of her voice. She still didn't know his name, and didn't much care. There'd be time for the niceties when he wasn't in danger of bleeding to death.<br/><br/>In the med bay itself she had two techs help her transfer him to an actual bed and before she started asking questions she was drawing up something, and jabbing him in his uninjured hip with it. The strong painkiller wouldn't knock him out, but it would let his body relax and keep him from feeling anything but the most intense pains. In her experience, most people that could feel pain through the doses she gave them, usually passed out from it soon after anyway.<br/><br/>"I don't know if anyone bothered to tell you, you were getting a new doctor, but I'm her. Name's Kara Gaius. You can call me Doc or Kara, I'll answer to either. Now<em>you</em>have managed to do a number on yourself here and I'm going to take care of it, no worries there, but it's going to require a few more needle jabs and some sewing so tell me now if I need you fully sedated or if you're ornery enough to stay still and watch me patch you up."<br/><br/>As she talked she worked, getting him set up with an IV to replace fluid he'd lost, as well as starting antibiotics along with it. She would need to run a course of anti-toxins as well but those would be next. She didn't think he'd die of blood loss but if he did there was no point in wasting the anti-toxins.<em>Not</em>a thought she would have said out loud but one that had been drilled into her during her residency all the same. She also put a tray together with the instruments, hemostatic agents, and sutures she would want for removing the metal and debris from his wounds. When she had it all together she simply stopped and looked at him, clearly expecting an answer to her query.<br/><br/>*Discussed the state of the med bay (how modern and well stocked it is) with Wargtass.