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Professor Chevalier welcomed them into the Danger Shop with a rather normal classroom setting and a smile. One might wonder why he used the Danger Shop, since he wasn't doing anything particularly special this time around, but one need only look at the sunlight streaming into the fake room and the smile on his face to put two and two together.

Once everyone was seated, he started passing around a copy of the syllabus.

"Welcome, all of you, to the history of medicine. I'm not sure what you all expected of this class, but we'll be covering some of the more ancient beliefs, the origin of practices, as opposed to more... modern milestones. I certainly hope this isn't a problem."

When he was done, he returned to the front of the class and leaned back against his desk.

"Now, since this is the first class, we'll mostly be doing introductions and I will be looking for an assistant or two, if anyone is interested. But first," and he pointed to the closest person, "name, class, and either something interesting or why you decided to take the class."

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"Alex Karev. Junior." Alex was really regretting not making a note card for these things now. "And I'm here because someone from my future told me I end up a surgeon. I don't know a damn thing about medicine so I thought I'd check this class out."

Claire gave him a puzzled look. "You? A surgeon? Really?"

She liked Alex and all, but he did not strike her as the warm bedside manner type.

"What, you don't think I could do it?" he asked, glancing at Claire.

"I'm sure you could," she said. "It just isn't what I'd picture you doing."

"Oh yeah?" Well, honestly, he couldn't picture himself doing that either. "What do you picture me doing?"

"Something with your hands, maybe?" Claire said.

Duh, Claire, what do you think surgery is?

"Something where you don't have to talk to a lot of people."

"You act like I'm some shy little flower." Alex knew what she was getting out but it'd be more fun if he could get her to say it.

"Oh, yeah, you're so delicate," she joked. "You aren't the type of person who will be nice for the sake of being nice though. I imagine you, like, telling your patients they're idiots and I can't imagine that would go over well."

"Well, if it's true, why shouldn't they hear it?" Alex asked, not seeing any issue with that. "I'd rather be honest than to sugarcoat things."

Claire shrugged. "Some people don't like that."

Not that she really had personal experience with doctors or anything.

"Some people need to learn to grow a thicker skin. It'll be better for them in the long run," he said, shrugging. "Not going to make it seem like they'd be fine when they're not."

"Someone from your future," he said thoughtfully.

"Well, we'll cover some of that in the class. Surgery, and it's origins."

"Yeah, first for me too," he said, shrugging. "She seemed pretty certain and if she wanted to lie, I think she'd have made something stupider up to get me to believe her. So, figured it couldn't hurt to check out the subject."

"It's not a bad job. I've done surgery myself," with a bonesaw, sir civil war medic, "but I hope you have a strong stomach. And no aversion to blood."

"Yeah, neither of those things is a problem." It'd been pretty easy to develop a strong stomach when you grew up like he did. "I'll be fine."

He agreed with a nod.

"If you want to do it, you'll do it. Thank you for joining us."

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