I should be writing but I’m bogged down in detail....

[respoftw]

I’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

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[em_kellesvig]

When I think about that first year I also wonder about dental care, gyno care for the ladies (tampons!), birth control, even something simple like who is cutting everyone's hair. There are clothes that need to be mended. What are they plugging all their electronics into?

Let's break this down:

Dental care: they probably sent a Maxillofacial specialist who could do basic dental work. For that matter, most MDs can do basic dental work such as pulling teeth. But they'd need a surgical specialist for trauma cases so that person would double as the base dentist.

OB/GYN: again, most if not all MDs do an OB/GYN rotation so that's covered. Birth control, tampons, pads, and other basic supplies? At least a couple of those big boxes they pushed through the gate held everything they'd need for a couple of years; everything from toothpaste to tampons, everything you'd find in a small drugstore. The problem with that is the US military doesn't do name brand and what they do provide is lowest bidder. This came up for women serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. There were several services that connected women without families at home with people in the US who would send care packages. Those women would make lists of what they needed and the brands, and people like you and me could provide the funds to purchase them. The service would buy the items and send them. So you know the SGC started out with those nasty cardboard tampons until Elizabeth stepped in and got what everyone needed sorted out. :D

Atlantis Hair Salon: the military is actually pretty good about making sure someone--or several someones--is trained to cut hair. It's just one of those additional skills you tack on by trial and error. Lots of bad hair cuts and close shaven heads until someone gets the hang of it.

Mending: this is a given, or used to be. My dad told me stories about mending his uniforms and darning his socks. All the guys did it and were required to do it. I'm fairly sure this still holds true.

Electronics: gang plugs, lots of gang plugs and extension cords routed to the naquadah generators. OMG, Atlantis must have been such a fire hazard!!! :D