Re: Leon/Maura
"At least you know how to read people correctly," he said, although he could tell that sarcasm was lost on this woman. "Preventive medicine is about scaring when we will have no way to cure what you find."
He could see the benefits of some of the tests, although there was no way that she would be allowed to run everything she wanted. "As I said, we do have a sonogram and x ray machine, both portable. We'll bring it with us, just in case we can use it in the future, especially the sonogram one. We also have a microscope and urinalysis strips. A tuning fork can be easily obtained. It's not getting the tools, but sending the tests out for analysis. Now, given that this is your specialty, you can run the tests that you can do without sending them out. You can provide me cheap solutions for the spirometer and the spectrophotometer, I'll consider it. We can even get an EKG machines if you feel equipped to use it. I know that there are some portable ones that we can look into. However, you're still not running any genetic tests, for any reasons, under any circumstances."
The benefits came with a price. Regardless of what she said, withholding treatment might be the only option. "Also since this is a military facility, I get the reports before the people. There is no confidentiality here. If we determined that there is nothing that can be done on the island, you might not even tell that person. I don't need anyone doing something stupid because they know they are dying and we're not putting the group at risk by sending them to a hospital. This applies to physical problems as well as to mental one, which reminds me, have you taken any psychology or psychiatry courses? Morgan and Prentiss used to do that for me. We'll need someone else in case we get more people with problems. Now, if you have a problem with the rules, we don't have to run anything other than vision and hearing. If they can hear and shoot, we're good, because the bottom line, Doctor, is that safety of the group and not of a single individual. I will lose people; that's a given. I'm interested in saving as many as I can."