DrMelonCollie
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The healer sighed, it was getting harder and harder to do her job. Burn out rates among medical professionals was on a dangerous rise. If the inter galactic government didn't find a solution soon, well the medical system would go under.
You have to understand that doctors are not just any being with training, no doctors are specially trained empaths who can feel their patients pain and remove it far more effectively than the butchers of the past. So the Guar were specially trained and in the last half century encouraged to mate within the medical cast as Healers were becoming more and more rare, even while each Healer was becoming more gifted.
The simplest solution was to find a species with the opposing gift, of broadcasting positive emotional energy, which would in turn keep the Healers from burning out and allow the current system to continue.
Unfortunately broadcasters were even more rare than Healers and many had died resisting capture as the black market was in a feeding frenzy for them. If you had a broadcaster you would have the best medical care possible.
And then humans were found.
Transporting humans was found to be problematic, and many were destroyed after testing. An entire industry on the harvesting and testing of humans was developed, and eventually several prime candidates harvested and sent to major medical centers.
When the first Healer committed suicide the government covered it up, when the second Healer committed suicide the government panicked and killed the human and quarantined the other 2, when one of those committed suicide they were frantic.
No one was going to pay to harvest such an unstable species, even if they had the potential for emotional broadcasting. The medical community was deep in grief over the loss of two of their own and it had severely compromised the stability of the medical system.
The remaining human was in a protected location, and they were trying to figure out why she was not broadcasting suicidal thoughts. They brought in small teams of burnt out healers, and held their breath.
Margaret was an optimist and after being abducted by aliens and torn from all she knew, she felt that they would not have taken her for no reason. They would not have provided her with food, water, and clothing for no reason. She basically lived in what was some sort of replica of a barn, with the first floor containing a small kitchenette and toilet, a video wall, and all the stuff that had been salvaged with her.
The second floor had her bedroom and bathtub, and she lived a quiet captivity. She read the books that had been brought with her, and felt uncomfortable when new books arrived as it implied that whoever owned them was dead. The video screen would show her any broadcast from Earth except the news and commercials.
She'd been living like this for quite a while, unaware of the changing locations of her abode, or that just outside the walls of her barn, her future was being decided. The solution they decided was that they just had to keep her happy, so when she expressed she missed her pets, small animals were provided. When she missed sunshine, they opened a patio area out from the barn where she could be 'outside'. In return for their investment, Burnt Out Healers were returning to work. At a much lower efficiency but they were helping fill the gaping holes in medical coverage.
Three months later, they ran into a major road block. Earth had been quarantined. Even the black market traders wouldn't risk a trip. Margaret was the only legal human off planet. The problem was this, Margaret was lonely, and no amount of reading, gardening, playing with fuzzy things that could be cats was going to solve that.
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You have to understand that doctors are not just any being with training, no doctors are specially trained empaths who can feel their patients pain and remove it far more effectively than the butchers of the past. So the Guar were specially trained and in the last half century encouraged to mate within the medical cast as Healers were becoming more and more rare, even while each Healer was becoming more gifted.
The simplest solution was to find a species with the opposing gift, of broadcasting positive emotional energy, which would in turn keep the Healers from burning out and allow the current system to continue.
Unfortunately broadcasters were even more rare than Healers and many had died resisting capture as the black market was in a feeding frenzy for them. If you had a broadcaster you would have the best medical care possible.
And then humans were found.
Transporting humans was found to be problematic, and many were destroyed after testing. An entire industry on the harvesting and testing of humans was developed, and eventually several prime candidates harvested and sent to major medical centers.
When the first Healer committed suicide the government covered it up, when the second Healer committed suicide the government panicked and killed the human and quarantined the other 2, when one of those committed suicide they were frantic.
No one was going to pay to harvest such an unstable species, even if they had the potential for emotional broadcasting. The medical community was deep in grief over the loss of two of their own and it had severely compromised the stability of the medical system.
The remaining human was in a protected location, and they were trying to figure out why she was not broadcasting suicidal thoughts. They brought in small teams of burnt out healers, and held their breath.
Margaret was an optimist and after being abducted by aliens and torn from all she knew, she felt that they would not have taken her for no reason. They would not have provided her with food, water, and clothing for no reason. She basically lived in what was some sort of replica of a barn, with the first floor containing a small kitchenette and toilet, a video wall, and all the stuff that had been salvaged with her.
The second floor had her bedroom and bathtub, and she lived a quiet captivity. She read the books that had been brought with her, and felt uncomfortable when new books arrived as it implied that whoever owned them was dead. The video screen would show her any broadcast from Earth except the news and commercials.
She'd been living like this for quite a while, unaware of the changing locations of her abode, or that just outside the walls of her barn, her future was being decided. The solution they decided was that they just had to keep her happy, so when she expressed she missed her pets, small animals were provided. When she missed sunshine, they opened a patio area out from the barn where she could be 'outside'. In return for their investment, Burnt Out Healers were returning to work. At a much lower efficiency but they were helping fill the gaping holes in medical coverage.
Three months later, they ran into a major road block. Earth had been quarantined. Even the black market traders wouldn't risk a trip. Margaret was the only legal human off planet. The problem was this, Margaret was lonely, and no amount of reading, gardening, playing with fuzzy things that could be cats was going to solve that.
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