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From Leonard H. "Bones" McCoy, to Beverly Crusher, Katherine Pulaski, Julian Bashir, Voyager's EMH "The Doctor," and Phlox, the Chief Medical Officer is a well-respected and well-represented member of the Star Trek starship crew. In McCoy's and Crusher's cases, to mention only the first two, the CMO has been not only the chief of medical operations on the ship, but also one of the Captain's closest, most important and most influential advisors. Of course, we can't all be CMOs, but even those of us just starting out in medical - or those of us playing ACMOs - would seem to have big shoes to fill.

Medical does not have a bridge station, and likely never will, and as such some creativity is required when trying to work with the rest of the ship and crew. Sickbay is, for medical reasons, usually on its own deck, and is usually isolated from the other departments on the ship. The CMO typically has an office in sickbay, and the turbolifts typically stop just outside sickbay (or else patients are transported directly to a biobed therein). This does not leave much room for interaction with other characters of the "on-my-way-to-the-office" variety. Not everyone bumps their head or gets a plasma burn, and so the medical officer may find her- or himself SIMming alone, at least while the officer is on duty.

''Explore:'' The [[Intrepid Sickbay|main sickbay]] on an [http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Intrepid_class Intrepid] Class vessel.