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impulsereader) wrote2012-06-18 11:35 pm
impulsereader) wrote2012-06-18 11:35 pm
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Sherlock is flush with cash - John is a doctor - and I am clueless
He never claims to be skint..."Told Mike this morning I must be a difficult man to find a flatmate for."
All the dialogue about money is either from John - or Sherlock feeding John's assumption of lack of such.
Hence - my belief that Sherlock is flush with cash gains canon ground.
In a practical sense, what is John’s skill set as a doctor? At the surgery he writes scripts and performs some triage in deciding if someone should be sent to hospital, but he’s over qualified for this. He doctored soldiers who were wounded by bullets and bombs rather than strep throat. So what sorts of injuries do we think John could successfully treat on his own, given the proper supplies?
As an example sort of a scenario – someone is stabbed in the torso. In my head, John binds the wound and then we go off to hospital because the victim needs additional scans and care. But if someone is stabbed relatively superficially in the leg, and once the wound is bound he can walk just fine, indicating no muscle damage – in my head perhaps John could stich this wound on his own if he’s not worried about internal bleeding and such. Would he set a broken bone? Probably not without an x-ray unless it was a real emergency situation, I would imagine.
Sorry, just trying to set my doctor so he shows off best in the available light...without being a show off...
All the dialogue about money is either from John - or Sherlock feeding John's assumption of lack of such.
Hence - my belief that Sherlock is flush with cash gains canon ground.
In a practical sense, what is John’s skill set as a doctor? At the surgery he writes scripts and performs some triage in deciding if someone should be sent to hospital, but he’s over qualified for this. He doctored soldiers who were wounded by bullets and bombs rather than strep throat. So what sorts of injuries do we think John could successfully treat on his own, given the proper supplies?
As an example sort of a scenario – someone is stabbed in the torso. In my head, John binds the wound and then we go off to hospital because the victim needs additional scans and care. But if someone is stabbed relatively superficially in the leg, and once the wound is bound he can walk just fine, indicating no muscle damage – in my head perhaps John could stich this wound on his own if he’s not worried about internal bleeding and such. Would he set a broken bone? Probably not without an x-ray unless it was a real emergency situation, I would imagine.
Sorry, just trying to set my doctor so he shows off best in the available light...without being a show off...
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It is certainly possible to argue that Sherlock has a trust fund or some other income becyond his earnings as a detective (especially as it is canon that he is unpaid for police cases) but even then, a flatmate would be a boon.
Sherlock wears expensive, dry-clean only clothes. He takes black cabs *everywhere* and I know people on 6-figure incomes who only take black cabs when they can claim it on expenses. He may simply figure that he has better things to spend his money on than central London rent.
My 2-bed flat in a not-very-good area, half an hour from Liverpool St, cost £850 pcm in 2008. 221B Baker St may well rent for twice that, and even with Mrs Hudson's "deal" could be over £1000 pcm. And that's without council tax (probably over £120 pcm) and utilities (a winter quarter gas bill can easily be £400, then there's water and electric and mobile phone contract and internet...)
Even before cabs and other luxuries, Sherlock and John probably need about £2,000pcm between them to live. London is very much Not Cheap. (If you do a job with a set income, such as government/teaching/NHS, there's a London weighting to the salaries, offical acknowledgement of how expensive it is to live in, or within commuting distance of, London.)
And dividends from shares, income from savings etc etc has all been hard hit by the recession/financial crisis.
Even if relatively flush, Sherlock could need a flatmate to ensure that he doesn't need to start budgeting or cutting back on luxuries, you know?
ETA: As discussed in comments over in my John-meta, soldiers get strep throat too. RAMC staff have to deal with men in their late teens and earliy twenties being men in their late teens and early twenties as well as everything the enemy can throw at them. Stress has an inhibitory effect on the immune system, too, and in Afghanistan British troops are in a very different environment from Blighty. Our boys are going to pick bugs up, get Delhi-belly (even if they aren't actually in Delhi) sprain and twist things having a kick-about in camp etc etc.
Not everything a base camp/field hospital sees will be injuries caused by bullets and bombs.
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I imagine the day-to-day strep throat Delhi-belly sorts of things are why John is quite a good sort of GP, actually, but he's over qualified for that sort of thing, Sarah tells us that. Also, he was shot, and I imagine it wasn't a freak insurgent on a tear through the hospital.
I'm also imagining that he isn't a surgeon, though, because of the same distinction you point out - Dr vs. Mr. So where's the happy medium? I'm also struggling because I have extremely limited knowledge of medical matters. As someone who doesn't know anything about anything, I'd be scanning and testing and finding out everything I could about an injury before even snapping on my plastic gloves, but John wouldn't do, so I can't write him like that, of course.
Just having a grasp of what people who have been through medical school in the UK would probably make me feel better, because then I could say - baseline - John at the very least knows this and would be proficient at this point in performing all baseline procedures. Hm. Perhaps google is my friend there...
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2-bed flats start at £375 a *week* and go up from there. £450 (weekly!!) seems more average.
One wonders how much of a deal Mrs Hudson is doing...
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Baker Street is in REALLY central London, just a couple of turnings off the major shopping centres of Oxford St, Bond St and Regent's St. You *pay* for that sort of thing.
And given that the house has not be refurbished and remodelled within an inch of it's life (not to mention the decor), I always sort of assumed she inherited it.
My mother's [who is about the same age as Una Stubbs] grandparents owned and lived in a three storey Georgian townhouse in London but by the 1950s there was a different family (of the family) living on each floor. Grandparents on the ground, one of thir sons, his wife and children on the first and another of their children, partner and (grand)children on the second, as though they were flats.
And 221B doesn't seem to have an internal front door, so I kind of assumed it was the same sort of use of a townhouse. Does that make sense?