Respect Your Elders

[capt_facepalm]

Title: Respect Your Elders
Author: capt_facepalm
Rating: PG
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (Gaslight ACD)
Characters: Major John H. Watson, RAMC
Summary: 1917, France
Warning: (none)
Word Count: 100
Author's Notes: July 22nd 2018 prompt: You’ve Forgotten Something. Have memory play a role in
today’s work

.oOOo.

Newly arrived Captain Litton-Whyte joined his fellow surgeons at the mess table. ‘Where did they dig up that old relic? His suturing was positively mediaeval!’

‘Surely you don’t mean the Major,’ Mr Evans growled.

‘That wound has to drain and we are short on silk,’ said Captain Bowley.

‘Git,’ another snarled.

This was not the reception Litton-Whyte had anticipated. The others stood to leave.

‘Major Watson has forgotten more about medicine than you will ever know,’ said Lannark ‘Here’s a tip, old boy: don’t let the stretcher-bearers hear you bad-mouthing the Major, or you’ll wake up with your head bashed-in.’

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Supplementary Notes: Major Watson is commanding a field hospital at this time. He is not at a front line casualty clearing station.

Comments

[smallhobbit]

A time when experience was more valuable than correct technique.

[capt_facepalm]

Thanks! I was going for Watson employing an older technique because he knew the wound would have to be re-opened and the hospital was running low on surgical silk.

[gardnerhill]

A symptom of the exact same thinking that produced that war in the first place - must try all these neat new bombs and gases and aeroplanes out!

[capt_facepalm]

The War was taking industrialisation to its inevitable end: death on a grand scale, and money for the profiteers.
Thanks!

[(Anonymous)]

Absolutely:-)
Mrs P

[capt_facepalm]

Major Watson inspires loyalty amongst his officers as well as in the lower ranks. (Thanks!)

[med_cat]

Indeed

[capt_facepalm]

Thanks!

[bwblack]

Old school techniques. You teach them Watson!

[capt_facepalm]

Sometimes old school techniques still have their place.
Thanks!

[pompey_01]

Woo hoo! That's telling him off! I know virtually nothing about Evans, Cpt Bowley, Lannark, and Mr. Anonymous but I like all of them already.

When I was getting my CNA my clinical instructor told us, "There is Test World and Real World. I'm preparing you for Test World but just know that things are different in the Real World." Methinks the young captain would do well to remember that.

[capt_facepalm]

I surprised myself with how BAMFy I ended up implying the stretcher-bearers are. Perhaps it was just Lannark's way of emphasising his point. Either way, the wagons circle around our Watson. (Can you tell I was raised on M*A*S*H?)
Thanks!