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championoftime
16 October 2011 @ 08:40 pm
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On behalf of the infirmary, I would like to know who has experienced a death toll in the past, what the side effects of it were, and who hasn't experienced a death toll and would be willing to offer their assistance to the infirmary in case an emergency in which we simultaneously experience resurging symptoms should arise.

I would greatly appreciate a response.

[Filtered to Infirmary Staff]

Someone familiar with where O'Brien's room is should get to him.

[Filtered to Una.]

What is Mr. O'Brien's condition? I'm concerned about his death toll recurrence.
 
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championoftime: 7.2 - Brigadier[personal profile] championoftime on October 17th, 2011 09:23 pm (UTC)
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Sometimes they do. Sometimes they don't. But if someone should be distracted by their discomfort enough, even if they're no longer physically harmed, their body may react in unpredictable ways.
[identity profile] iam-aghost.livejournal.com on October 17th, 2011 09:26 pm (UTC)
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In that even if the pain is psychological, the treatment should also have a placatory psychological effect?

Which makes me wonder if that is how the death toll works in general, and we could be giving people potentially highly addictive medicines when a placebo would do.

potentially. I would want hard evidence either way before I suggested any adjustment in treatment.
championoftime: 7.2 - do tell?[personal profile] championoftime on October 17th, 2011 09:31 pm (UTC)
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It appears to be legitimate pain for many. The receptors for the brain, even in aliens that should be able to control that sort of thing [like he and T'Pol] still register the pain, even if there are no wounds. So the treatment in that case stands.

But the existence of the pain I'm worrying can create more physical effects. And at the moment I'm also concerned that, do to the irregularity, genuine physical symptoms may start showing up soon.

[It's a little disappointing to hope that the death toll just stays as it is and doesn't progress.]
[identity profile] iam-aghost.livejournal.com on October 17th, 2011 09:37 pm (UTC)
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But, essentially, to the high majority of us, relieving the pain of death is an exceptionally alien - if you forgive the term - concept. It's not something anyone's brain is prepared for.

Psychosomatic pain can lead to physical manifestations, and people are also more likely to do irrational things if the pain cannot be stopped.