Hemodiealysis (222.p.1)

DOCTORS (2) » DR. A “Next: Run Longer ” — I continue, to skip certain issues that might come up with the conversion variation.

“Right.” The room comes out of a bit of a daze: apparently they were pondering the morality question already. “We can run the vampires longer and for more patients if we can figure out how to ‘overclock’ their bodies: make them consume more unwanted elements in the blood stream per hour. Or if we can extend their effective dialysis period, so they consume more elements per session.

Either of these would not be a problem if required more blood, because that requirement would be over more patients, as long as the two-to-three tablespoon per patient loss is the same.”

“And you know how to overclock or extend a vampire? Like hard physical exercise or weight lifting consumes more calories for a living human?”

“Uhm. No” “Anyone?” All the heads in the room went down, up, left, right, and every variation other than looking at me. Sometimes I wish I was talking to Mark: he always looks straight at me during our conversations. A bit intensely at times, like he is trying to see my brain or soul through my eyes, but at least he is focused on me and what I am saying. Not on the chittering of a pretend fly on the ceiling. “Anyone?”

• “OK. Next. — Sadly, even I know pig-organs aren’t real yet.

And peritoneal dialysis has a large number of issues, mostly in that patients don’t like it, but also that it is much less effective than vampiric hemodialysis. So patients will be dying from it in larger numbers and our stats will show something is wrong.” I am pretty sure I know what the next one means, but continue… “Next: Prioritize?”

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