quinn wake is the medicine woman (doctorquinn) wrote in light_of_may, @ 2013-04-16 15:39:00 |
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When it came to new employees or people transferring into the hospital, Quinn was pretty much out of the loop until she saw the new employee with her own eyes. Unless, of course, it was someone who would be working with her. The more she thought about it, the more she realized that there were several people she worked with who she only knew by surname and from brief, cold interactions. Before her transformation, she had not been unfriendly, not really, but there was no one who could describe her as warm or personable and now Quinn had no idea how she was supposed to go about changing that. She smiled when possible and even tried to make jokes... that were more miss than hit. Others in the hospital had noticed the change in her behavior for sure, but they seemed to know even less than Quinn on how to act.
She had a minor surgery to prep for that evening, so she was spending a few minutes to herself, going over her file and double checking facts that she needed to know. That was something that had not changed. Before every surgery, she went over every file two and three times. This was the kind of job where mistakes were fatal and could completely ruin someone's life. She was never comfortable until she had gone through every single detail in her files regarding the patient. Normally she did this in her office, but today she was simply walking around the hospital, stretching her legs before she needed to change into her scrubs and wash up. With her nose in the folder, she couldn't really see where she was going and as such she shouldn't have been surprised when she bumped shoulders with someone passing by.
"Sorry!" She turned immediately to the person she'd accidentally bumped into. They had not collided very hard at all, but Quinn still felt awful about not watching where she was going. "I'm so sorry, I wasn't paying any attention," her eyes fell on the white coat and laminated identification tag with the hospital's logo printed on it. One thing was for sure, Quinn had never seen the young woman before. "Are you new here?" That was another trait that had not changed with the transformation; changing subjects with no warning and incredibly quickly, Quinn had done that since she was in school. "I've not seen you before."