Diary of a Doctor

I've switched the tapes out a few times to get used to this, but it feels so alien to me. This is Doctor Aid and it's 7:45 in the morning and I arrived at work today to see my waiting room damn near filled with ponies. I'm waiting for my fellow doctors to arrive before I start taking anypony in. I checked on Pocorn Butter and his fur has fallen out around the base of his neck and the bite has early cases of necrotizing fasciitis or a flesh-eating bacteria. The area around the necrosis has small dimples and appears cracked. The discoloratio. Of the skin has apread his collar bone into the fur. I injected the poor fellow some penicillin and cleaned the area around his wound.

It's 12:13, lunchtime, or it would be if I didn't have a mountain of papers to sort away and record.

At 7:55 and we've had three patients with minor headaches and coughs so we gave them prescribed the over the counter Ibuprofen for the headache and over the counter cough medicine.

At 8:10 we had a male patient come back in from yesterday, the one with a rash on his hind leg, but the rash advanced into a big case of cysts up his left leg and flank, the cysts wrapped around his left knee and just above his hoof. The stallion was crying in pain, and he didn't look like the type to cry. We did surgery and removed the cysts from his leg, but we are keeping him in a room and we're going to monitor him over the next couple of days.

At 9:25, we had a couple of grade school fillies come in and say their throats were itchy and eyes were burning, one was severly raspy and another couldn't even speak. I prescribed them all anti-inflamintory drugs and told their parents to come back in case it gets worse, and just to make them all feel better I gave them all lollipops.

At 9:55 we had a few ponies come in with similar bite marks as to that of Popcorn, except these ones where all carried in on stretchers by paramedics, we brought then all to an isolated wing, including Popcorn Butter, after we found similar symptoms in all cases. I took blood samppes from each of the four victims and ordered one of my nurses to send them to the Canterlot Center for Disease Control. We also had a pony come in with bite marks in their necks, but this one actually seemed to be more of a Timberwolf attack, and I found no sign of infection so I got her stitched up and set her up in a room.

At 11:36, a pony was brought in with similar bite marks to the other four, except this one was a small colt and there was a small hole in it's forehead. The pony had the same infection in him, but it stopped spreading when he was shot. The bullet caliber was a common 9mm Parabellum. The bullet was lodged in the cranium, and was fired from about 10 meters, give or take. I was unable to find out who the colt was and no family has come looking for him.

We found Golden Petals family, yet they refused to come to her funeral as they stated to have disowned her. She apparently had fled home in search of a better life than that of a farmer, where she came to the city and was mugged and stabbed. Her funeral is in a week.

It's 8:24 at night and one of my nurses was just attacked by one of the isolated ponies. She went over there to change out the ponies IV's and one had jumped up and grabbed her and pushed her to the floor. They were screaming about how that he was going to die and eat her. Thankfully, before he could do anything security got there and put a round into the back of his chest, launching him forward. The nurse was hysterical as she got up and ran out of the room. The security guard says that he had put a 12 guage buckshot load into his back, which had ripped his back apart, revealing his spine and internal organs. He states that the pony slowly clambered back up and charged the guard again before receiving another buckshot load to the face. The pony dropped dead and slid over to the guard. The guard ran out and left the wing behind him. The security guard asked me if he could give more detail on the situation, and I have allowed him to do so.

So, I just, speak?

Yes, please take your time.

So, I was making my rounds with my trusty Mossberg, which I bring with me to all my security shifts. I made my rounds up and down the hospital, until I got to the isolation wing, where I heard a scream. I ran down the hall and entered the room, and I saw a pony on top of one of the nurses. I thought it was an intruder trying to rape her, but then I saw that he was trying to bite her, and something clicked and I raised my gun and fired at him. The buckshit ripped his back open, and knocked him off the nurse who ran past me crying. The stallion was still trying to get up, even though his back was ripped open and you could see the outline of his lungs, stomach, and spine. The bones were a deep black, like a smoker's lungs after a while with all the tar and pus, except the spine was stained red with blood. He stood up and turned around, buckling under his own weight, but he picked up speed and I finally shot him in the face, as his head exploded and his body slid to a stop infront of me. I ran out of the room and down the hall and I came out of the wing and came to find somepony. Now we are here.

Thank you, that was helpful in trying to figure out this illness. You free to leave. Thankfully nothing interesting happened between lunch and that incident, but I sincerely doubt I'm goi g home anytime soon. Time to break out the futan and the bottle of whiskey.