Rodney's med school background

[synekdokee.livejournal.com]

Okay, so unless I'm mixing up canon and fanon, Rodney went to med school for a while, didn't he? And he dropped out because it was making him (even more) hypochondriac?

I'm sure Rodney would've ended up as House 2.0 if he'd actually graduated, so I'm wondering.

Are there any fics that in any way deal with Rodney's med school background? Either having it pop up during a conversation in canon setting, or complete AU where Rodney's a med student or maybe even a doctor? Anything that plays with the angle of med.school!McKay.


McShep or gen, please.


ETA: Okay apparently I hallucinated this, but the request still stands!


Son of ETA: Okay I *didn't* hallucinate it, Rodney did indeed study medical science for a short while. According to Wiki it was stated in the Brotherhood, but I can't find the exact quote. Here's what Wiki says: "He studied medical science at one time, but stopped because too much information on the human body made him start to diagnose himself with many phantom diseases."

Comments

[ttiot8.livejournal.com]

I'm almost positive that isn't canon since he calls medicine voodoo and says it's a fake science.

[synekdokee.livejournal.com]

Well that's what I thought too, but then I got all confused...

[sandrainthesun.livejournal.com]

I think he said something like reading some medicine textbooks and then imagine every sickness there is, so he could never do medschool. But don't ask me for the exact quote.

[synekdokee.livejournal.com]

Apparently it was an undergrad class. Mystery solved :P

[argosy.livejournal.com]

Um, Dexter went to med school and dropped out, and neither he nor Rodney suffer fools gladly. :) Here's a McShep Rodney doctor AU. (http://www.wraithbait.com/viewstory.php?sid=3490&chapter=1)

[synekdokee.livejournal.com]

Dexter went to med school? Book or tv canon?

And thanks for the link!

[argosy.livejournal.com]

TV. I don't know about the books. And you're welcome!

[synekdokee.livejournal.com]

I totally missed that! I stopped watching around the middle of third season, so I don't know if it was mentioned before that?

[argosy.livejournal.com]

It's when Doakes is getting suspicious in season 2. He says something about how Dexter was at the top of his class in med school before he dropped out, and why is he doing forensics now? I don't know if it's ever been made anything of besides that.

[synekdokee.livejournal.com]

Wow, you have a great trivia memory :D Strange for Dexter to even go to med school thoughl considering the issues he has with blood.

(Then again, in the TV show the whole blood thing was played down a bit, in the books his hatred for seeing blod was much more prominent. Because of the fact that he had to sit in a pool of his Mum's blood for days. In the first(?) book he practically went into hysterics when he slipped and fell into a puddle of blood.)

[argosy.livejournal.com]

Well, I remembered the med school dropping out part. I had to look up the exact reference on Wikipedia. :)

[danceswithgary]

The canon reference is: Episode 2.07 when Carson is examining Zaddick's potion for Elia:

McKAY: Never could get into biology. It's just too much information about the human body. One time I took it as an undergrad, I diagnosed myself with half a dozen separate medical conditions before I had to drop the class.

[synekdokee.livejournal.com]

Yay, I'm not insaaaane :D

[michelel72.livejournal.com]

It's funny, in a way -- one undergrad biology class, and he's such an overachiever he jumps himself all the way ahead to First Year Med Student Syndrome! That's our Rodney!

[ttiot8.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah! I forgot about him saying that.

[raphe1.livejournal.com]

There is the AU Medical Doctor Rodney tag on SGA Fiction Resource here:

http://sga.fictionresource.com/fic_index.php?ac=tag&id=00342

Buffalo Wings by omglawdork is especially good :-)