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respoftwI’ve been toying with an idea for SGA fic for a while but I’m trying to get it straight in my heads as to what the SGCs policy on sending people with a need for long-term medication would be.
We know that the first Atlantis expedition was expected to be a one-way mission. (Let’s ignore the fact that they were woefully under resourced for that for now)
How would that affect the approval of expedition members with medication needs?
Diabetics and insulin? HIV positive people with their meds? Trans people and their HRT? Someone who’d had a transplant and needed anti-rejection meds?
Would they be refused or would the SGC just give them a years supply and wish them well? (I mean, it’s the SGC so it would probably be like a month supply lbr. Where was their stores of food? Or stuff to trade? Ugh! But I digress.)
Anyway, I’d be really interested to hear other people’s opinion
We know that the first Atlantis expedition was expected to be a one-way mission. (Let’s ignore the fact that they were woefully under resourced for that for now)
How would that affect the approval of expedition members with medication needs?
Diabetics and insulin? HIV positive people with their meds? Trans people and their HRT? Someone who’d had a transplant and needed anti-rejection meds?
Would they be refused or would the SGC just give them a years supply and wish them well? (I mean, it’s the SGC so it would probably be like a month supply lbr. Where was their stores of food? Or stuff to trade? Ugh! But I digress.)
Anyway, I’d be really interested to hear other people’s opinion
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Date: 2018-03-21 07:54 am (UTC)Frankly, if I were O'Neill or Landry, I wouldn't send anyone to Atlantis who needed that kind of long term support. Most people in military with those needs wouldn't be at SGC in the first place, if they remained in the military at all. (FYI, I believe the military won't even accept someone with only one working kidney, let alone a transplant.) So on the military side, it wouldn't come up. In addition, trans people were not openly serving in 2004 so anyone trying to hide would have been found out in the vetting process.
On the civilian side, they'd have to think long and hard before assigning someone to Atlantis who needed therapeutic support. Not because of that need so much as the strain on Atlantis' limited resources. That may have played into the small number of people they sent on the expedition: it's hard enough to find volunteers for a one way trip; finding perfectly healthy people would have been a nightmare.
After they reestablished contact, I would think people who needed long term chemical support wouldn't be sent out unless Atlantis had a working ZPM to send them back to Earth in case their meds ran out or their conditions changed and no ships were available. Shelf life for most meds is two years--technically. Quite a few last much longer than that with proper storage. Others, like insulin, tend to be highly problematic. Even McKay's Epi-pens are proving to be an issue these days.
The situation may have improved after the gate bridge was built but still, it's asking an awful lot of the medical staff to monitor patients with chronic health conditions when they're operating what's essentially a M*A*S*H unit in a forward operation base in the middle of a three sided war. So, no, even people with relatively minor health concerns like thyroid problems or hypertension would be excluded, at least initially.
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Date: 2018-03-21 08:00 pm (UTC)