tarakan: (captain that's dumb)

[personal profile] tarakan 2024-08-29 02:56 am (UTC)(link)
Shaw. Look at me. In no way, shape, or form do I have personality fit for conventional hospital.

[ Hilbert sucks and he knows it! ]

But this is hardly conventional hospital. What matters on Barge is doing right by your patients, whatever it takes to solve problem and keep them well. I have faith in your ability to do just that.

And, selfishly, I feel infirmary should not be staffed entirely by magic children.

[ "but Ulla and Florian are in their twenties," still counts, okay??? ]
tarakan: (looking over to the side)

[personal profile] tarakan 2024-08-29 03:19 am (UTC)(link)
If I thought there was important, baseline difference between us, I would not ask you in first place.

And frankly? I think because you are worried about your inability to care, that means you are better fit than your realize. If you were true sociopath, then why would you let supposed inability to care stop you from the job? If you were true sociopath, why are you worried about patients?
tarakan: (can't be helped)

[personal profile] tarakan 2024-08-29 03:22 am (UTC)(link)
Whichever choice makes you stop doubting yourself. I am not picky.
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[personal profile] tarakan 2024-08-29 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
Cognitive empathy is objectively knowing why people feel something. Emotional empathy is when you can tap into emotional state, akin to feeling their emotions in shared emotional experience.
tarakan: (determined!!!)

[personal profile] tarakan 2024-08-29 03:51 am (UTC)(link)
It does not give me willies.

[ There's a pause where Hilbert decides what to say before he settles on, ]

I was in hospital for large amount of time when I was child. Very bad, was in and out for multiple years. Do you know worst thing I heard at the time? "I am so sorry this is happening to you." Sorry would not make treatment work faster. Sorry would not put money into research trials. Sorry only made people who could not do anything feel better. What mattered most was not "I am so sorry," what mattered is "here is what we are doing today." I know I am not only person on Barge to feel this way.

I would not ask you to take up infirmary post if you only had medical knowledge. It is combination of your medical knowledge and previous actions on Barge that made me ask you.
tarakan: (can't be helped)

[personal profile] tarakan 2024-08-29 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
Perfectly understandable. After all, this is not decision to be made on whim.
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[personal profile] tarakan 2024-08-29 04:16 am (UTC)(link)
No need for thanks. You have proven yourself in my mind already. Do not sell yourself short.