Enter Ren Sabaku, one of the newest ninja to enter Sunagakure no Sato. Well, not to say new, she had technically graduated from the academy quite some time ago, but she... how would you say.. took a leave of absence? From her responsibilities owed to the village and instead shadowed her mother in her store and clinic. All the same studying every textbook and research paper she could get her hands on. While she wasn't the smartest person naturally and wasn't some great tactician, she had rightfully earned herself a spot as one of the brightest upcoming medical ninja. Applying and entering into the hospital to shadow their staff and begin serving as a doctor despite being a genin. Scoring very highly and doing great on her entrance exam and interview, and compared to the other students, some even at chuunin level, she was quite proficient.

So now, Ren sat in the office of a doctor, her first day on the job, ready to go through whatever orientation they might have prepared or whatever beginning task she might have to get through. But, Dr. Fushiki seemed to not care in the slightest, instead thumbing through files of profiles at his desk. Ren sat awkwardly at the chair across from him, almost to scared to interrupt to say anything. His eyes would roll up briefly, "So... you're still here?" he would say in a bit of a monotone. Ren's eyes would shoot up a bit, a bit confused at it all, "I.. ummm yeah. I'm just waiting for.. ya know orientation or whatever to get started..." she let on a bit embarrassed and with a nervous chuckle.

Dr. Fushiki laughed in return and set down his file, "Well there's no real orientation here, we brought you onto shadow us and learn, but as far as we're concerned you're another employee. You know what you're doing, the clinic is a bit short staffed, so while you're new you can get acquainted over there." he said and picked up the file again. Ren nodded nervously, "Yeah, alright, should I come check in or anything later on or.... ?" she led on. He simply rolled his eyes up slightly and motioned his head towards the door, an abrasive gesture at the very least.

Ren did as he requested though, he was probably busy and it was her first day, no arguing or talking back just yet. Making her way out of his office and down the hall to the clinic, to figure out how things worked and where to begin? Regardless, Ren entered into the waiting area and to the receptionist, looking around the room of sick people there for their appointments and walk ins. Ren approached the desk, "So... I'm kinda new here, not sure what I should do." she asked the attendant a bit bashfully. The woman looked towards her, "You're a bit young to be a doctor, what can I help you with?"

"Well, I don't exactly know, but Dr. Fushiki asked me to get started down here and I guess start working on whatever? But I don't really know what to do..." Ren leaned in on the counter to whisper, "I've never really worked with a patient before." Her response was to chuckle and laugh at Ren, "Alright, wait here and I'll see if I can find someone to accompany you and show the ropes, just wait here." she said with a bit of a chuckle and heading off momentarily.

So now Ren had to wait, looking around at all the files and paperwork around, the doctors and nurses rushing around. It was quite hectic at its core and yet, no one seemed panicked. Except maybe Ren, who had to figure out how to handle a patient and what to say, what to think. She knew all the symptoms and diseases and such, and how to apply them, their rarities and the potential treatments for all of such. But... she had never actually put any of it to practice, so her true test was yet to come. Assuming she found someone to shadow or to join her while she handled something. Thank god that nothing ever serious really came through these clinics, a few broken bones or cuts and scrapes, maybe an appointment for a physical or check up. All easy things to handle, ignoring any rare circumstances or crazy outlier, it should be an easy day. Hopefully.

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Ren waited silently for a moment, fidgeting about where she stood, waiting for something to happen and for whatever to begin. Another woman walked to her, a unique magenta colored hair and purple eyes, greeting Ren not long after approaching her. “Hello there, you’re the new one that needs to be shown around, I suppose? I’m Kitahara Keiko, and it seems you’ve been assigned to me. Don’t expect too much though, I’m not a teacher.” Ren smiled and nodded, "Yeah, I'm Ren Sabaku, and today's kinda my first day on the job and all..." she gave her answer a bit bashfully and rubbed at the back of her neck briefly.

“I assume that if the receptionist called you a doctor, you’re somewhat trained. I’m not expecting you to do much but …” a brief pause erupted as Keiko looked towards Ren. “If you do have any questions, or want to add in your own thoughts, feel free to.” Ren nodded along, it was a bit of a relief to hear that she wouldn't be totally hung out to dry. Not like her superior was leaving her to, after all, she had never dealt with a real patient before much less treated one. The learning curve alone would certainly be interesting but Ren responded, "Alright, thanks. I appreciate it."

“Here, take a look at this file, and we can call them in to see what they need.” Ren accepted the file and began to glance over the details of it all, the first patient of the day and it would be filled by the role of a young child with what appeared to be a broken leg just checked in not too long ago. The child himself was only about seven years old, but not much else in the way of detail would be there, it seemed rather simple to start with, nothing too extreme and nothing confusing. It was almost straight forward as it would come.

The child would be in room 2B already, having been x-rayed and everything else before hand, it would be as simple as going in and setting the bone then fusing it back together. A simple enough task even if the bone had broken through skin.

It wouldn't be until Ren entered the room that she would realize part of the true difficulty in dealing with patients and especially true for children above all else. The room was a little small but had plenty of room for the four of them, Keiko and Ren the child lying on the table grimacing in pain and tears beginning to dry up as he refused to move about and an overly anxious mother. Who, to what would be a surprise shot up in her place as they entered the room, panic in her voice or perhaps a bit of anger?

"Oh goodness, it's about time that someone showed up! I bet you were off helping your friends and the others that came here before us! My son is injured and you guys are taking your sweat time with it all!" she was almost yelling as they entered. Ren was a bit shocked at the scene, understanding the panic of a mother but confused as why any of this could be their fault? She entered in and defaulted to Keiko to respond while the mother ranted on, glancing to her with a confused look on her face.

"Well what's the hold up, it shouldn't take you but a few minutes to make him good as new! I've seen how you people use those jutsu of yours!" Ren just smiled a bit, and approached the boy, she didn't exactly have a technique that could set the bone in place and fuse it together. Her jutsu were good for smaller issues and with the bone having broken the skin, it would be mostly up to Keiko to do the hard work here. Also leaving the explanation of what they would do and how it would be done for Keiko to explain to the mother. In the meantime, Ren would introduce herself to the boy and his erratic mother, waiting for Keiko to do the same and make their introduction, "My name's Ren, and I'm just gonna numb your leg some so it won't hurt nearly as much when we fix it." she would give forth a genuine smile and let the chakra coat her hands.

A small grimace as she placed her hands on his leg and began to numb the entire region of his leg where it was broken and where they would have to focus their efforts. After a brief moment Ren would step away and let the boy tend to himself, the mother tightly held at his hand and Ren couldn't help but smile at the notion. The rest of this case would be left up to Keiko to set the bone, and end up fusing it back together and healing it, she could help but for the time she would mostly get in the way.

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Keiko took charge of the situation after defusing the mother to some degree, so direct and abrasive. It was shocking to Ren, who covered up any surprise by ignoring the comments altogether, not looking at Keiko or the mother but instead to the chart she had in her hands. When Ren was done numbing away the childs leg, Keiko stepped up and offered her first bit of advice, “Lesson one – don’t use chakra unless you absolutely have to, or you’ll burn yourself out after your third patient.” Ren would nod along taking a mental note of the advice, she most certainly wasn't wrong, being on duty for hours at a time, having to maintain that much chakra in a day would be insane. No doctor would ever last long from the pure exhaustion of the job itself, Ren mused to herself as she watched Keiko set the bone back, making it look surprisingly easier than Ren imagined.

Thoughts of a heavy snap as it would be yanked back into place and a boy squealing as he thought he would be in some terrible pain, but mostly from the shock of it all. Horror stories and nothing more really, but that didn't mean that Ren wouldn't let her imagination run wild with the thoughts of it.

Ren's attention would be broken by Keiko requesting a nurse to work on casting it, Ren would nod and head into the hallway looking around thoroughly. At the first nurse she could find Ren would reach her arm out and catch the woman by her arm, "The boy in room 2B is ready to have his leg cast. Can you send someone to take over for that? Ren would ask having let her arm go almost immediately, the nurse would nod in response and head off down the hallway. Ren would head back to the room with the boy and nod to Keiko, making a few marks on the chart and leaving it in the bin just outside the door.

Not a moment later would two people in scrubs enter the room, "We're here to do the cast?" the first guy would speak up. Ren nodded and stepped out of the way for them to enter, one guy and one woman would enter the room and approach the boy, Ren sliding out quietly with a small wave to anyone who would still be paying attention, if anyone at all.

“Well? How was it?” she would ask as they headed back into the hallway to grab the next case. Ren would muse over her thoughts briefly, rocking her head back and forth, "Well... it was about as eventful as I expected?" she spoke with a slight chuckle. "I'm a little surprised at how you told off the mom though, I always thought we'd have to be on our best behavior and kind and all. Given how most parents or loved ones will project their anger and worries onto whomever they're dealing with. Other than that, broken bone, no big deal..." Ren would nod along as they made their way back to the station.

The next chart on the list would be far more interesting than the first as far as details went, but in terms of fixing it or anything like that, Ren almost immediately suspected the cause. Taking the folder from the nurse before Keiko could, without even thinking, after all she was in charge. Perhaps it would be a bit rude to do so? But for Ren, who would be scanning over it while listening to Keiko's response or musing over the case to herself, the thought wouldn't hardly cross her mind.

Glossitis. Inflammation of the tongue... probably just some allergic reaction to something, most likely food borne unless... he was eating something inanimate? That would be a bit unique to say the least. "Well, at least the next one won't be yelling at us or anything, not until after we've treated him..." Ren snickered and handed the folder to Keiko to look over.

The 24 year old male would be located in room 3C this time, not but just down the hall from where they were just at. When all was said and done, Ren would follow Keiko down the hall to the room, following her lead the whole way there. Hopefully, Ren wouldn't already be overstepping her bounds here but on the way there she would chime in, "We're never gonna find out what he was allergic to unless we reduce the swelling in his tongue. It might be a bit of a weird idea, but we can take his face and inject him with steroids, after a few minutes the inflammation should drop enough that he can speak, although it'll only be a temporary fix..." Ren would add musing over her thoughts. Temporary, but if the man knew where he had messed up he would be fine, another shot of epinephrine to match the prednisone and avoiding whatever environmental fault he encountered should clear him up.

It wasn't exactly unethical either, but the risk-benefit ratio would be a bit low, and it would be more Keiko's decision here to decide how to proceed. Ren definitely didn't want to step on anyone's toes and force her into doing something that she may or may not be comfortable with doing.

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Don't make Keiko a role model, got it! Ren thought to herself as they exited and she listened to her response. A brief moment later with the file and Ren handed it over for their next patient.

They began to make their way to the room, Ren laying out her plan for this particular patient, thinking a bit out of the box but more so displaying her medical knowledge. Keiko gave her the green light, despite her overly childish way of explaining it by injecting his 'face' with steroids, Ren would feel a slight drop in her chest as they entered into the room. Ren nervously walked in, holding the clipboard and file to her chest as she inched her way to the center of the room, the man's tongue inflated to fill his mouth plus some. Ren entered in and stammered through her name and introduction, "Hey, I'm.. uh, gonna be treating you today and all..." she led on. The nurse smiled a bit and the man shot out what sounded like an 'Ok' despite his mouth being full and his breathing no doubt stunted as a result. Ren turned to the nurse and asked for 1 CC of prednisone, some gauze and then another 2 CC of epinephrine. As the nurse turned to the cabinets to begin preparing it, Ren turned her back to the patient and began to speak.

"So, what we're gonna be doing is injecting you with some steroids to reduce the inflammation in your tongue and mouth, which should only take a minute or two to kick in. Then some epinephrine to reduce and inoculate whatever toxin is in your kidneys and liver..." Ren nodded her head and took the first needle of the steroid prednisone and the gauze and approached his head. "You do know what you're allergic to, right?" she asked wondering if they would have to go through a scratch test to determine his allergy as well today. The man shook his head lightly and confirmed that he knew, which either meant that he was stupid or unlucky, whatever it was didn't concern Ren that much.

Ren slipped on two plastic gloves, fighting tightly around her hand as she set the syringe and gauze down for a brief moment. Then taking the syringe she used one hand to tilt his head and push up on it, then with the other, pressing underneath his tongue to find her spot. Her medical prowess completely on display in front of Keiko, she went to find a spot close to the blood vessels and keep it under his tongue, given that he probably wouldn't want to taste too much of his own blood or swallow the gauze. After some light maneuvering Ren stuck the syringe in pressed it lightly into the meat of the tongue and release the steroid quickly into his tongue, holding the tongue back with the fingers of her other hand. Then keeping the tongue pushed back, Ren grabbed the small swab of gauze and stuffed it under his tongue. Stepping back with a sigh, she spoke up and disposed of the needle into the biohazard bin, "The tongue's swelling should go down in a minute or two..." then taking the epinephrine shot in her other hand, a different vessel than a needle, it was more of a cylinder of plastic for quick delivery.

She walked over and stabbed it into his thigh rapidly then pressing a button, he would groan out and reach for this thigh as Ren watched patiently. "This is called an epinephrine pen, might want to carry one if you have allergies like this..." she said and pulled the pen away and tossed it, with her gloves in the bin. Ren would turn to the nurse as she finished up, "If the swelling doesn't go down in ten minutes and his bloodshot eyes don't fade either then you can give him another 2 CC's of epi and send him home to sleep it off... Thanks" she would add with a bit of a smile and turned back to Keiko, who hopefully was fine with how she handled it. Waiting to see if Keiko had anything else to add for the follow up or not, otherwise it would be on for them to the next one.

Making their way back to the waiting area to grab their next patient, Ren already feeling the daunt of the cycle of work, thinking to herself about potentially developing a coffee addiction. Her thoughts interrupted as the doors slammed open and three stretchers with a staff of nurses raced into the area in a panic. Ren's eyes widened as she froze up for a second, a quick glance from Keiko as she moved forward, Ren hesitantly following after to begin to observe them. Following Keiko and inching forward to him, he lookly badly injured, lots of deep cuts and enough blood to make Ren gulp as she looked onto the scene. Keiko called out, “We’ll get this one to Room B607 – keep the mask on him, and do not remove him from the stretcher, park it next to the examination table.” Ren nervously heard her out, as if she were in a daze looking at all the wounds, no doubt about to enter a nervous sweat as she grabbed the railing of the stretcher.

It would take a second for Ren to break free from her worry and take hold of herself as they were pushing the cart down the hall to the room, letting Keiko take hold. A visual examination of his injuries, there were cuts everywhere, and maybe poisoned? Heavy risk of infection at the very least, he was in quite the condition. Ren helped park the stretcher and immediately grabbed a pair of gloves and the needle to the heart monitor, almost in a panic with her movements, hardly hearing Keiko's commands. The gloves were on and she found the vein in his left arm to connect him, she had a job now, stop the bleeding and monitor his vitals... but there was so much blood? How was Ren supposed to stop it all? She had to do something, anything to help out, he would certainly die if she didn't get herself together.

It would take careful examination of it all, there were vital areas near his neck that were cut, preserved by the anbu's temporary stasis technique and other cuts all around his body. With Ren on his left side and Keiko on his right, a nurse at his feet waiting to help out how she could. Her job would be non-vital bleeding stoppage and calling out anything she noticed, a gulp as she pushed chakra to her hands and began to run over his chest. "Keiko, broken bones in his chest and lacerations to his internal organs in addition to his neck..." she led on as Ren began to run over the tissue at the outer extremities of his body. Healing over a gash on his left shoulder as she waited to hear out Keiko's thoughts, blood was beginning to pool up in some areas and show through all the bandages that Ren could lay her eyes on.

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“Keep giving him air, we don’t know the full extent of his injuries – his signals could be delayed, or even non-functional.” Keiko called out as Ren continued to push chakra to her hands and heal what wounds she could get to. The problem was that Ren didn't have any advanced healing methods, the best she could do was minor repair to internal organs but not enough to close them up, or to close them up still damage, either way she was on blood control and this guy was certainly losing a lot of it. As Ren was struggling to figure out what she was going to do, Keiko called out again, a plan to cryogenically freeze his body, a certainly bold maneuver but for someone in such a risky state, it would be worth it.

Ren grabbed the needle in his arm and took it out so that it would freeze along with him, then stepped back to watch Keiko at work. Ren watched as Keiko pressed her hands together, a chill ran through the room as the ice formed and her hands pressed to his chest. Ren wouldn't imagine that she could also use an advanced element like herself, but especially one she'd never seen before. Perhaps not in this whole country, making her quite unique indeed. But her thoughts were not on Keiko's origin or abilities, instead on watching the man calm down, a glaze of ice rushing over his body to begin to stabilize him.

Keiko spoke up again as the jutsu ran its course, blood stopped flowing, some of the external actually froze into small crystalline structures, “It should be fine now, we’ll keep an eye on his vitals, but our focus now will be on healing up any critical wounds.” Ren took a second and examined over the body, it seemed all the cuts were healing themselves and lessening in severity, bringing down the urgency of it even if just a little. Ren nodded, not saying a word, her anxiety prevented her from wanting to do much or add more, and immediately she went back to work on the body.

Pressing more chakra in her hands and running over the body, checking every bit of area, listening to the nurses call out small wounds and other cuts and their severity. Ren would work tirelessly to save this man, but while he was partially frozen, a bit of calm would run through Ren's mind, a small breathe of fresh air as she felt the alms of recovery.

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Ren focused heavily on the task at hand, no deviations from it and no distractions along the way. She had a task to heal as much as she could and she was burning through chakra fast, she was only a genin after all, there was only so much she could do in the long run. But Keiko's freezing technique had certainly taken off a lot of the pressure of the situation, but not enough to let either one of them relax. Ren continued to work around the severe areas and life threatening injuries, she had no where near the prowess to take on those injuries herself.

Her short musings and focus were broken as Keiko started to speak up, commenting on her jutsu. Ren would glance up briefly and slow down on her healing technique for just a second, passively pressing out chakra as she listened in and nodded along. She understood, they still needed to move quickly and effectively to save this guy, barring any other complications or such, but given the frozen manner, they could ignore most of the bleeding fall out.

After a moment and a clearing of his life threatening injuries, they began to pull him out of the cryogenic state, Ren remained to work on healing any wounds and cuts that might have been missed. Since, when the body unfroze, anything they missed would start to bleed again. Ren took it upon herself to focus on that while Keiko began to call out orders to the nurses and give their orders on how to handle him after the fact. “Anything you’d like to add?” Keiko looked towards Ren, the body of the man slowly left its cryogenic state, and everything looked good.

Ren sighed a bit and held of her chakra, just running over him to fix as much as she could. Ren stopped her chakra and shook her head, "No, I think that's it..." Ren stepped back and felt woozy immediately, having burned so much of her chakra. She caught her balance and shook her head a bit, holding her hand up to keep her balance as her eyes focused in and out and regathered her composure. "I uhhh... I think I need to take a seat and rest a minute..." she offered with a hesitant laugh and scratched the back of her head. "If that's everything then, I'll be going to take a short break. It's been great watching you work, thanks for helping me out." Ren would offer her hand for a polite hand-shake if Keiko would accept.

Anyways, after all was said and done, Ren would depart and go take a seat in the lounge and relax a bit. Grabbing a water bottle and taking a few sips as she closed her eyes and took a deep breath. So much to learn today and so much to reflect on, and yet Ren just wanted to rest for the time being.

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