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Although Jania has an adventurous side and loves nature, she can be clumsy. That said, as a medic, she’s quite skilled with her hands. In the academy, she was known for her calming bedside manner, and she was often called to deal with patients who were panicking. | Although Jania has an adventurous side and loves nature, she can be clumsy. That said, as a medic, she’s quite skilled with her hands. In the academy, she was known for her calming bedside manner, and she was often called to deal with patients who were panicking. | ||
In many cases, she's as fast at accurate diagnoses of injuries without a tricorder as she is with one. She’s by no means a luddite, but if she’s got the time, she prefers to default to low-tech methods of first aid. She | In many cases, she's as fast at accurate diagnoses of injuries without a tricorder as she is with one. She’s by no means a luddite, but if she’s got the time, she prefers to default to low-tech methods of first aid. She knaps her own scalpel blades using obsidian from Trill, an ancient tradition still observed by a few Trill doctors. (Obsidian is considered the best material for surgery on symbionts due to their unique biological makeup, but this may simply be a retained belief without scientific merit.) Before she left for Starfleet, her mother gave her a polymer resin scalpel handle with the phrase, ''Let your heart guide your hands. Love, M-.'' This was destroyed in 2943 when the crew of the Butler was flung through time. | ||
{{Heading|On the USS Octavia E. Butler|Blue}}Jania Nis's earliest experience on the Butler involved witnessing an ensign succumb to the hallucinations caused by the changeling on Omicron Vector IV; she and Nurse [[Miash]] managed to prevent the ensign from depressurizing the ship. | {{Heading|On the USS Octavia E. Butler|Blue}}Jania Nis's earliest experience on the Butler involved witnessing an ensign succumb to the hallucinations caused by the changeling on Omicron Vector IV; she and Nurse [[Miash]] managed to prevent the ensign from depressurizing the ship. | ||