Every Last Mother's Child
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Chapter 6: The Resident
He was dead dog tired he had just finished a thirty six hour shift at the hospital. He had been on call for internal medicine. He was looking forward to crawling into his bed and reading the back of his eyelids for about a century. He wasn’t expecting the chief resident to find him as he was going off duty.
“Leroy,” the woman said coming up to him, “looks like your residency is over. The crown just named you as part of the pioneer party that is lifting next week. You’re single right?’
“Who would have me, Doctor Crystal,” The resident said irritated, “I spend my work days here for thirty or forty hours at time, then I go home and sleep like the dead for the next two days!”
“Okay dude,” Doctor Crystal replied, “I was trying to remember who was in your family.”
“It’s just me Lorie,” the young doctor said, “My parents died about two years ago. I was an only child. No regular girlfriends.”
“Good they want you sooner than the others.” She said, “Admiral Klond wants to interview you.”
“That’s a little odd isn’t?” The resident asked.
“Not really Leroy,” the woman said, “Admiral Klond is going on the lift and she wants to talk with the medics who are going with her. From the look of things you two are being posted to Outpost One. She’ll be the attending, and you will be her assistant.”
“Damn,” The young man said, to work with Admiral Klond would be fantastic! She was the top military doctor in the empire. Some said she was the best emergency doc in the entire universe. He could learn more from her in a month than he could in six years of private practice.
“Damn is right,” The woman said envious of the resident. If it wasn’t for her young kids, and having to look after her father she would have been on that lift herself. “Look go, get some sleep and then see her. She knows you’ve been on duty so won’t be expecting you right away.”