● ! Urgent: RE: Disinterment - Mark as unread
Dr. Gunner Nilsson, Ph.D.

Para-Forensics Division

Dear Dr. Fiael,

Upon your insistence and formal appeal to both our department and the Ethics committee, we have disinterred the quarantined remains of Luke Baker. Therein, we discovered a pile of a mulch-like compound. The mortuary’s records tell us Mr. Baker was not stored with any other organic matter.

We were able to recover a relatively minimal amount of the previously-observed nervous tissue. Numerous tumor-like buds could be seen growing from the spinal nerves and eyes. With extreme precaution, these tumors were separated and analyzed.

The contents include phenols, enzymes, and starch; they are potatoes. The skins of the potatoes were found in varying stages of development, the more mature ones resembling ordinary composition. The more juvenile ones, however, contained high amounts of keratin and human epithelial tissue.

Looking at the current file for this, and in light of this discovery, it is my strong opinion that it needs to be completely rewritten.

Respectfully,
Dr. Gunner Nilsson, Ph.D.

Johann,

The paper looks good. Not everyone gets to discover a new anomalopathogen.

Congratulations on the work,
Alton
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Final draft.pdf

Dr. Fiael,

When I was working at Mayo before the Foundation, I used to be very kind to the kidney doctors who managed end-stage renal disease. I'm of the specialty wherein, in the civilian world, you typically see your patients respond to your interventions and drastically improve. Being a surgeon, this improvement is usually instant, as is the gratification. How must it feel, I thought, to have gone through all this medical training and at the end of the day, you really can only offer therapeutic silence in the form of symptomatic prescriptions and palliation? Now, I also know something of that futility, and it is ironically because I was at the top of my field.

I encourage you to stay in touch with your feelings. The most disturbing component of our profession here is not the proximity to the anomalies themselves but a chronic indifference for the individuals affected by them. I have seen it develop. Let me know any way I can help you and your future patients.

Dr. Wallace, M.D., M.S.H.A.
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Paul Baker - Hospital Stay Summary.pdf