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Message no. 1
From: Mach <mach@****.CALTECH.EDU>
Subject: Re: Doctor, Doctor
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 13:52:46 -0800
On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Mach wrote:

> *****PRIVATE: Irish
> >>>>>[I think I will pass on this AJ person, then.

Actually, is Brian Angliss around? (Haven't heard from him since AJ was
moving to get back into the arms business.)

> As I stated originally, I was looking for someone who I could trust with
> "every little ache." Free clinics lack the safety, skill, and, far more
> importantly, the security, privacy, and discretion that I require.

She isn't expressly trying to torque Irish, but that is what she
originally stated. (Although, I'm surprised if AJ doesn't have workers
under him that would handle this sort of thing at his shadowclinic.)
And if you think about it, a shadowrunner that visits a local clinic
runs all sorts of risks, from being picked up on security cameras, to
underpaid clinic personnel giving them up to authorities, to simple
malpractice by underpaid, overworked personnel with inadequate
resources. Being SINless, etc., they can't exactly go downtown to a
nice doctors office and sit in a waiting room, but generally being
well-paid puts them in a position to pay good (and tax-unreported) money
to doctors willing to deal with a more dangerous kind of clientelle.

I'm kinda surpised that nobody else has an available shadow-doc
character. Is MatB and his Dr. Seuss still around? I was wanting to
get some other people involved (albeit indirectly) with writing. If I
don't get any takers, I'll just make something up myself.

> I also do not appreciate someone who considers an infraction of his
> "rules" worthy of an attempt to make me "meat." If I hire the
services
> of a doctor, they work for me, not the other way around. That he would
> not deign to be "bothered" for anything less than the gravest
> emergencies, leads me to believe he isn't the kind of person I would
> hire. Thank you for the referral, anyway.]<<<<<
> -- Quicksilver <14:22:42/01-22-60 PDT>

What she isn't saying here is that due to her "unique" biology, she
needs a doctor who will keep their mouth shut, with some stronger
assurance than "doctor-client priveledge." Having a strongly instilled
fear of vivisection will do that to you, and the use of the term "meat"
didn't help matters any. She gets the impression that it would be
highly unlikely for her to be able to threaten AJ into silence, and with
his appearantly superior attitude to his patients, she has little reason
to trust his candor.

--Catch you later

Jeff
Message no. 2
From: Karl Low <kwil@*********.COM>
Subject: Re: Doctor, Doctor
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 16:31:16 -0700
>On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Mach wrote:
[biggus snippicus]
>
>I'm kinda surpised that nobody else has an available shadow-doc
>character. Is MatB and his Dr. Seuss still around? I was wanting to
>get some other people involved (albeit indirectly) with writing. If I
>don't get any takers, I'll just make something up myself.

>
[biggus snippicus]


Jeff, I did post a small exchange between Xenon and his street-doc "Justin
Case" a while back. I'm certainly willing to have him take on a new client or
two. He's not bleeding edge tech, or even necessarily that great at what he
does.. but he does know how to keep his mouth shut, and the weirdness of his
clients doesn't really bug him.. he's more concerned with where his next hit
is going to come from.

Karl
Message no. 3
From: Jett <zmjett@*********.COM>
Subject: Re: Doctor, Doctor
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 22:01:11 -0500
Mach wrote:

>
> > As I stated originally, I was looking for someone who I could trust with
> > "every little ache." Free clinics lack the safety, skill, and, far
more
> > importantly, the security, privacy, and discretion that I require.

I could offer the services of one of my characters' regular doctors, who's a
"Shadow General Practitioner" that would probably work out fairly well. I'd
have to dig up the name and other basic info from my notebook, but I think
that Scrape's regular doctor might be a good match.


--Jett

<*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*>


"I'll make this clear, that I'm just here for backup. And to offer the
occasional advice or insult."
--Jett, on being an NPC

Behold the mighty sonic scream of the Jett!

http://www.scifi-fantasy.com/~zmjett/shadow.htm
Message no. 4
From: Mach <mach@****.CALTECH.EDU>
Subject: Re: Doctor, Doctor
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 01:04:22 -0800
On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Karl Low wrote:

> Jeff, I did post a small exchange between Xenon and his street-doc
> "Justin Case" a while back. I'm certainly willing to have him take on
> a new client or two. He's not bleeding edge tech, or even necessarily
> that great at what he does.. but he does know how to keep his mouth
> shut, and the weirdness of his clients doesn't really bug him.. he's
> more concerned with where his next hit is going to come from.

On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Jett wrote:

> Mach wrote:
>
> >
> > > As I stated originally, I was looking for someone who I could trust with
> > > "every little ache." Free clinics lack the safety, skill, and,
far more
> > > importantly, the security, privacy, and discretion that I require.
>
> I could offer the services of one of my characters' regular doctors, who's a
> "Shadow General Practitioner" that would probably work out fairly well. I'd
> have to dig up the name and other basic info from my notebook, but I think
> that Scrape's regular doctor might be a good match.

______

Hmmm. Okay. Well, from the look of it, it'd actually be nice to have
both of them reply (directly or indirectly via a referal) to
Quicksilver. If you could (via private reply to my address) fill me in
on a little info that NewzJunkie would be able to dig up (he's good at
rumormongering and assembling not heavily (or un-) protected data).
Like Karl, define: "next hit."

--Catch you later

Jeff
Message no. 5
From: Brion David Wauters <bdw8@****.UCC.NAU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Doctor, Doctor
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 10:03:24 -0700
On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Mach wrote:

> She isn't expressly trying to torque Irish, but that is what she
> originally stated. (Although, I'm surprised if AJ doesn't have workers
> under him that would handle this sort of thing at his shadowclinic.)

I just based that statement on the amount of security mentioned the last
time someone "new" went to see AJ. I figure that if things where that
tight, he wouldn't be willing to handle minor illnesses and what not.
Could very well be wrong.

> didn't help matters any. She gets the impression that it would be
> highly unlikely for her to be able to threaten AJ into silence, and with
> his appearantly superior attitude to his patients, she has little reason
> to trust his candor.

Again, based on the last time, it was indicated that attempting to break
the "rules" was very bad for one's health. Things may have changed, since
if I remeber correctly, AJ was going through a paranoid phase at the time.

Brion

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