Re: [restart point] Mission 2
Sanjuro, whom had been watching intently, waiting to learn from Sora, decided to interject and answer Ashers question. He figured the Ketsurui wouldn't want to be bothered with something so menial.
"A Physical examination, or clinical examination if you want to be specific, is the process by which a health care provider investigates the body of a patient for signs of disease. It generally follows the taking of the medical history...an account of the symptoms as experienced by the patient. Together with the medical history, the physical examination aids in determining the correct diagnosis and devising the treatment plan. This data then becomes part of the medical record, which we will use to update the information on you already stored within the SAoY databanks.
Although different institutions and different examiners have varying approaches as to the sequence of body parts, a systematic examination generally starts at the head and finishes at the extremities. After the main organ systems have been investigated by inspection, palpation, percussion and auscultation, specific tests may follow such as a neurological investigation, orthopedic examination or specific tests when a particular disease is suspected based from the data we've both received and previous information on your past condition.
Some of the specific areas we will be examining are the vital signs, which include temperature recordings for standard core temperature, systolic and diastolic blood pressure measurements, pulse rates and respiratory rates. For the past few years however most participants have been wary of using the classic temperature measurement device of a mercury sphygmomanometer due to some inane news article about faulty sphygmomanometers during a Novacorp power outage...so you have a choice between the old mercury sphygmomanometer or an aneroid sphygmomanometer. If you do not feel comfortable with standard stethoscopes either, this is understandable; some of my past patients are quite adverse to the cold metal upon their breast. I am not entirely partial to it myself, but I do not mind if you want to use a pulse reading method that does not require physical contact.
After that is done a standard Star Army clinical examinations turns to basic biometrics assessments, such as height, weight and pain reception. Measuring height and weight is fairly humdrum, but ever since the Kyoto Medicinal Journal released that article on the moral implications of pain reception testing, we cannot conduct a simple measurement of your reactions. However, pain reception is an important part of your physical body, and thus we must check it some way; instead of a pinprick, as was the standard before YE25, we will be essentially 'poking' you with this cotton swab."
Sanjuro produced a small white cotton swab from his pocket and held it out for Asher to see.
"I hope that was enough to answer your question. I skipped a few of the more important details."