Diary of a Doctor

How do you turn this thing on? Ah, there we go! So I guess I just talk into this thing, alright, totally not going to seem crazy. Okay, hello, my name is First Aid, I'm a doctor in the Canterlot Emergency Center. I will be using these audio recorders to record patient info and anything else. Today, I've had a patient come in with a dislocated leg, which we reset quickly and he walked out of here good as new. Patient's name was Heavy Lift, he states he dislocated his leg in a construction accident. Another patient came in with two stab wounds in the side of the neck, she reported to have been mugged in an alleyway. We stitched her up and kept her in a room just in case the wounds hit something vital. Patient's name was Golden Petal and we called the royal guard to tell them to watch for anypony with a weapon or that looked shady. So far that's all the reports today, but it's about nine o'clock in the morning.

Alright, it's currently 4:32 pm in the afternoon and I've got a few more cases then I'm going home. At about 11:20 a stallion came in with what appeared to be a rash on his cheek, we gave him some anti-rash cream and told him that if it gets worse to comeback and we'll see about it.

At 1:45, a mare came in with her little foal. The filly had a raspy cough, and claimed to have a sore throat so we told her to gargle with salt water when she wakes up and before she goes to bed.

At 2:35 we had two patients come in with relatively similar symptoms. The first had a congested nose, watery eyes, and their cough was very rough. They also claimed to just be extremely tired. The second had similar symptoms, except they had a very runny nose, and were sneezing often. Their eyes were red and puffy and watery. They claimed they had chills and a unbearable headache. We diagnosed both of them with the common flu and we gave the first pony Oxyzetamoline for the congestion, Benadryl for any sort of allergic reaction, and Mucinex for the cough. The second pony received the same thing, both were told to sleep extensively.

Finally, at 4:15 we had a second pony come in with a rash, found on the patients back left leg. It spread from the thigh towards the hoof. We gave them some anti-rash cream and told them to come back if it got worse.

Alright, for a new technology it seems very simple.

It's currently 6:19 and at 5:05 a pony came into the lobby with bloodstains around their neck. They had a set of bite marks on their neck. They claimed that it was a wild dog, but the teeth marks were that of a herbivore, most likely that of another pony or they were self afflicted. We checked the patients teeth and found no fur or blood and the dental pattern didn't match that of the bite mark. We shaved the ponies fur to be able to get to the bite to sew it up. The skin underneath was turned purple from bruising and the veins were a dark purple and were seen more clearly. My colleages and I believe that this pony had some sort of infection so we told the pony that the bite marks had hit a vein and would need more treatment. We put him in a room with bandages covering his wounds. We'll check on him in the morning. I finally can get some rest.

What the hell was that? Okay, so I was about to sign off and go home, but I just heard what sounded like a scream. I'll be back in a second.

Alright, it was one of my co-workers throwing a suprise party for a friend, and the friend screamed. Finally, I'm going home.

It's 11:30 at night and I was called out to look at something about Golden Petal. She had gone into shock at about 10:10. My colleages say that she was foaming from the mouth, her eyes were bloodshot, and her stab wounds had ripped the stitching and were bleeding exstensively. I believe that the knife had hit something important and since we didn't fix it she went into shock. She sadly died from her wounds at about 10:15 and I believe that we could have saved her if only we had caught it sooner.

I checked on Popcorn Butter, the patient with the bite marks. He was thankfully asleep and I checked the wound and found the wound had stopped bleeding and the purplish veins were now up to his ear and down to his leg. I swapped his IV out and left him to sleep.

Most of my co-workers were busy getting Golden Petal's family information together so they could make runs and tell the patients family that Golden Petal was deceased.

I walked the halls of the massive, yet empty building for about an hour, stopping every so often to chat with the janitors. They had so many stories it was insane. One had a story where his house destroyed by Tirek in his battle against Twilight Sparkle. He said that he had been in his pool relaxing in the summer heat and then his house was flattened by a hoof. Thankfully he wasn't seen by Tirek so he just stayed in his pool. Another janitor had a story about how he had took a trip around the world. He started in Canterlot, went to Ponyville, then to Manehattan, Appleloosa, Las Pegasus, the Crystal Empire, and finally Fillydelphia before coming back to Canterlot.

I'm going to go back home and back to sleep so I can be rested for tomorrow. I have a lot of papers to fill out and I don't want to be running on empty when I do so. This is Doctor Aid and finaly I'm getting some sleep.