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[ Doctor Simon Tam ☤ SCI»010»030 ]

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[organfarm]

[ deep breath. ]

Okay so this is totally just a hypothetical question but if like you got an extra spinal cord -- a totally healthy one -- could someone or something here transplant it into a person with a damaged spinal cord. 'Cause that was impossible back home but I dunno, I'm still not completely used to the future-y gizmos and things and machines here. So, uh. Yeah.

[doc_pompous]

[oh my god]

That is...an incredibly specific hypothetical.

[organfarm]

It's -- about an incredibly specific person, so. I kinda promised them I'd look into things.

[doc_pompous]

So it's not purely hypothetical, then.

[organfarm]

Yyyyy -- no. Sorta? I mean -- the extra spinal cord's hypothetical. Unless you've got any of those lying around?

[doc_pompous]

We do have the technology to synthesize organs, I don't see why parts of the spinal cord would be out of the question. The hard part is the actual procedure.

[organfarm]

... you have technology to synthesize organs.

[ somehow he hasn't found out about this yet. and he's vaguely offended by it. ]

Right, uh. There isn't a machine that can just bam, swap broken spinal cord for a whole one?

[doc_pompous]

[Ha ha oops.]

We have automated surgery, but anything involving the spinal cord is inherently risky. There's always the possibility that a hypothetical patient might not be comfortable leaving themselves in the hands of a machine, even if someone like me supervises the procedure.