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WCDT Strips 3376 - 3380 (19th to 23rd December 2016)
TheEvilDog:
--- Quote from: Morituri on 19 Dec 2016, 18:53 ---Okay, I just want to say something here.
VA Hospitals in the US are better than that!
I mean, I know they have problems, I know the paperwork jungle gets hip deep at times, I know their scheduling is right out of Kafka, I know that sometimes they have limited access to the most recent drugs and there are legal barriers to holding them accountable for malpractice, and all of that. Okay, I know that. They're run by a bureaucracy. That's kind of a given.
But scrapped program or no scrapped program, classified operational details or none, injuries received in action while operating under orders - even if the orders were wrong, stupid, or illegal - is what they are there to deal with and unless something VERY wrong is going on in the QC-verse they don't turn away from it.
"Never disclose operational details" means that the people you'll be talking over your problems with will have to have clearance, but VA hospitals will go to whatever lengths they have to go to to get someone involved in treatment appropriate clearance. PTSD is NOT a joke to those guys.
And there's a major VA hospital not far at all from real life northhampton.
--- End quote ---
Bear in mind that Bubbles has admitted that she is a pariah in both the AI and human communities. A doctor "might" be able to help Bubbles, but what about the patients who might be triggered by the sight of a combat unit AI? Admittedly, I say this because as I have said a couple of times, Bubbles has the look of a flensed body, which is terrifying.
It's a shitty reasoning, but it's also shitty to be in the position that Bubbles has found herself in. And it's shitty that hundreds, if not thousands of veterans cannot avail themselves of the various VA facilities, but they themselves might have reasons not to go to them.
sitnspin:
If the military disavowed her entirely, she may not even be eligible for VA benefits. Plus, it's likely her period of service predated the legislation that gave AI full rights.
Is it cold in here?:
She might not have been regular military. Some kind of deniable CIA team is a possibility.
WoaLG:
There's a bit of talk about VAs and therapists so far in this thread, but I do wonder if maybe that's just not something that's available for AIs in this world as a whole?
As far as I can tell from this comic, AIs are legally equal, but are generally ignored by most people in the QC universe (main cast obviously excepted because of how much time they spend around the different AnthroPCs). I wonder if anybody has bothered to actually create those kind of services for AIs?
Bubbles has just explained that their minds work in a fundamentally different way than human minds, so it seems probable that our normal methods of treating humans might not work on AIs.
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: Morituri on 19 Dec 2016, 18:53 ---Okay, I just want to say something here.
VA Hospitals in the US are better than that!
I mean, I know they have problems, I know the paperwork jungle gets hip deep at times, I know their scheduling is right out of Kafka, I know that sometimes they have limited access to the most recent drugs and there are legal barriers to holding them accountable for malpractice, and all of that. Okay, I know that. They're run by a bureaucracy. That's kind of a given.
But scrapped program or no scrapped program, classified operational details or none, injuries received in action while operating under orders - even if the orders were wrong, stupid, or illegal - is what they are there to deal with and unless something VERY wrong is going on in the QC-verse they don't turn away from it.
"Never disclose operational details" means that the people you'll be talking over your problems with will have to have clearance, but VA hospitals will go to whatever lengths they have to go to to get someone involved in treatment appropriate clearance. PTSD is NOT a joke to those guys.
And there's a major VA hospital not far at all from real life northhampton.
--- End quote ---
That depends entirely on the location. I think she's saying that the whole operation got marked black ops and classified top secret.
I watched my best friend's father die slow death due to complications from emphysema and in infection in a broken toe. The VA told him he didn't have emphysema, gave him the cheapest antibiotics they could, anpassedlittle more than an asprin regime for the plaque psoriosis that engulfed half of his body from head to toe (other foot) by the time he passed.
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