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impulsereaderHe 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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Date: 2012-06-19 05:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-06-19 11:02 pm (UTC)Your links are brilliant - especially because those two posts make it clearer that everyone is as confused as I am and that John's CV is complete BS. It's almost like they were trying to get across what John can do because unlike any others of its kind it lists out stuff he can identify/treat, but at the same time it's so shoddily slapped together it makes it hard to take any part of it seriously.
It sort of makes me angry that we authors care so much about portraying the characters accurately that we're meta-ing up out the arse while the person who was actually paid to type and print out John's CV apparently couldn't be arsed to google the correct format for John's CV.
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Date: 2012-06-20 09:10 am (UTC)Glad the links were of assistance. I also read this story on AO3 today, which I thought covered the bases fairly well: http://archiveofourown.org/works/438822 Good story all on its own, too.
ANd I'm going to use my new icon now, inappropriate as it is to this discussion, just because I CAN!