A cooperative patient and a helpful family with him-- Joly can handle that just fine.
He studies the data as the scanner does its work, nodding and making notes for the records on his own tablet as it does. After a few moments, he says "Monsieur, I'm going to give you an IV-- it'll be nothing much, you'll feel a sort of pinch, and we can start catching you up on some of those meals you've been missing." An alarming number of meals, from the scanner's report, but something easily handled.
What needs to be done is easily done-- hooking up the IV, setting up monitors, starting a more thorough blood and system analysis, all the small but wonderfully useful tools Joly can bring to work for such a situation. He explains it all simply and quietly, as he goes, but he's pretty sure neither the patient nor his visitors is paying him the least bit of attention. It's wonderfully easy to carry out his work.
After a few minutes--how few, with the aid of the Infirmary's machines, still amazes him-- he nods and steps back a little. "Monsieur, Madame, I'm going just over there--" he points to a desk on the other side of the room , one covered in monitors and machines "-- but I'll be right at hand, call if you need anything at all." If they barely notice his leaving any more than his being there, that's fine with him. All his patients should have such devoted families.
He pauses on his way to check on Marius, under the official excuse of bringing him a cup of water--which he does seem to need. "Marius? Here, are you well?" He presses Marius' shoulder and smiles, with the very smallest hint of teasing. "You look as if you've seen a ghost."
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He studies the data as the scanner does its work, nodding and making notes for the records on his own tablet as it does. After a few moments, he says "Monsieur, I'm going to give you an IV-- it'll be nothing much, you'll feel a sort of pinch, and we can start catching you up on some of those meals you've been missing." An alarming number of meals, from the scanner's report, but something easily handled.
What needs to be done is easily done-- hooking up the IV, setting up monitors, starting a more thorough blood and system analysis, all the small but wonderfully useful tools Joly can bring to work for such a situation. He explains it all simply and quietly, as he goes, but he's pretty sure neither the patient nor his visitors is paying him the least bit of attention. It's wonderfully easy to carry out his work.
After a few minutes--how few, with the aid of the Infirmary's machines, still amazes him-- he nods and steps back a little. "Monsieur, Madame, I'm going just over there--" he points to a desk on the other side of the room , one covered in monitors and machines "-- but I'll be right at hand, call if you need anything at all." If they barely notice his leaving any more than his being there, that's fine with him. All his patients should have such devoted families.
He pauses on his way to check on Marius, under the official excuse of bringing him a cup of water--which he does seem to need. "Marius? Here, are you well?" He presses Marius' shoulder and smiles, with the very smallest hint of teasing. "You look as if you've seen a ghost."