tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jan 13 12:06:46 2003
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Re: Klingon WOTD: Qel (n)
>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Sunday, January 12, 2003.
>
>Klingon word: Qel
>Part of Speech: noun
>Definition: doctor, physician
As used in canon:
Qel vISamnIS.
I need to find a doctor. CK
Even though Klingon doctors generally have thriving practices and a doctor
is always part of a ship's crew, not only is being under a doctor's care
considered a sign of weakness, but it is also regarded as a relinquishing
of self-control. Klingons tend to avoid visiting doctors except under the
most serious of circumstances and, as a result, doctors spend a great deal
of their time tending to critically wounded patients and relatively little
time performing routine examinations or practicing preventive medicine.
The general term for "doctor" or "physician" is {Qel}, but a "surgeon", a
doctor who actually manipulates the internal organs or bones of the patient
and thereby is the most invasive, is a {HaqwI'}, "one who performs surgery".
(KGT, 151)
B'Elanna once commented, "They say that the doctor who operates on himself
has a p'tak for a patient." (VOY "Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy")
--
Voragh "Damage control is easy. Reading Klingon
- that's
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons hard!" (Montgomery
Scott, STIV)