Did they have to discuss hospitals? Hospitals were depressing especially muggle ones. Hady didn't like hospitals. Not one bit. She didn't want to think about them, read about them, talk about them, be in them or have anything to do with them. There weren't many good thoughts that came to mind for her when it came to hospitals.

Sighing softly the second year listened to all the answers that had already Ben given before slowly raising her hand. "There's special nurses called Neonatal nurses that take care of babies born to early and need help to stay alive," she offered after a moments thought. Yup. If it weren't for a group of them her little cousin wouldn't be around right now. So maybe some things were good in hospitals sometimes.

Caleb knew that they were going to talk about muggle doctors - because what ELSE were they going to talk about when she was dressed like that? Seriously? Everyone was already naming the obvious ones, so Caleb raised his hand. He had a GREAT answer.

"There are janitors in hospitals too. You have to have a lot of people there to clean up all the germy bedsheets and stuff," he pointed out. Just like in the wizarding world too!

When were they going to get their own scrubs? That's what Heather wanted to know because those things looked awesome. But it didn't look like that was going to happen any time soon, since Professor Moxley started the lesson without even mentioning them. Hmm.

Everyone was mentioning the obvious hospital jobs, of course. But that didn't mean she had to follow the crowd, nope. "They need cooks too, for the cafeteria and those people who are unfortunate enough to have to stay awhile." Muggles didn't have house elves, nope

Janelle was kind of off in her own little world when she heard a familiar voice. Turning to the side, she saw Adisit down next to her. "Hey there. How's it going Adi?" She hadn't had the opportunity to talk with her Prefect buddy in a while. Before Janelle could continue their conversation, Professor Moxley called the class to order. Sending Adi an apologetic look, she turned her attention the Professor.

The Professor jumped right into the topic of the day and the first question was not far behind. Janelle had an answer so she raised her hand as fast as she could. "Speech pathologists can work in hospitals. They help people who have problems speaking or with language or swallowing." That was only a little bit of what they did and Janelle knew this because that was what her aunt did for a living. It was really a cool job and she helped a lot of people.

Sharp close of the door followed by a clap of the hands to get all their attention back to her. Yep, the class was about to begin in earnest and the fifth year obeyed her call for his focus, turning his gaze completely to her. Right....that's what Professor Moxley reminded him of. A healer. Or in this case, the muggle equivolent Benny supposed. The Gryffindor listened to what the woman was saying about health and healing before they got to the first question of the lesson.

He himself wasn't sure of an answer to give. So he listened to the ones that the rest of the class gave. Angel was first and Benny softly smiled at his girlfriend's reply. She did have the knowledge of a muggleborn to help her cause he would have never guess the response she gave. That of Tobias and Adi was more his limit of knowledge of the health field.

Oh, HEALER stuff. Dot totally got Healer stuff, and she gave the professor an approving grin and finger wiggle to let her know that she was totally on board with this topic. There had to be plenty of parallels between Muggle and magical healing careers. In fact...

"Professor, my mum is a midwife, and she says that sometimes even Muggles use midwives if they prefer a... holistic approach to having babies." And Dot even mostly understood what that meant.

Cilla raised her hand. "There are specialist doctors called neurologists who deal with any health issues relating to the brain and its function. Diseases such as epilepsy and Parkinson's disease are dealt with or managed by neurologists."

Ooooh! Norah had been to one of those hospital things before! Well, it'd been in France so it was called something a little different but it SO still counted. But oh. That Zander dude already said something about the broken bones, which is what she'd had. It wasnt her fault she'd fallen out of a tree okay, it WASN'T. It happened to people all the time when they were pretending to be a monkey. Duh.

She raised her hand with another idea, because her muggle grandparents went to those things too, sometimes, which she knew because it made her mum talk all worriedly on those tellyphone things. "My mum's mum goes to an audiologist because he needs to give her little thingies to put in her ears so she can hear better" Norah'd heard them being called something like hearing apes, but her mum had banned monkey games since that time Norah broke her arm so it couldn't be that. She paused for a moment and then added, "But the hearing things means she knows when we're trying to steal cookies, and we're not even allowed to yell, so I don't know if I like audiologistaudiologistts very much." A whole summer holiday where you can only yell outside and eat cookies after supper was very hard okay.

Meredith was always surprised to find that the children knew much more about the topics she presented than she'd anticipated. It was refreshing-and sometimes puzzling-but it didn't stop her from going over everything so that those sitting quietly might understand too.




Nurses, yes. She’d expected this answer. ”Both nurses and people called medical assistants are responsible for aiding doctors in caring for patients. The two positions are similar in that sometimes the tasks they do are the same, though nurses have a larger list of procedures that they are qualified to perform. They’re also paid more.” She figured she’d mention that since many of the children in her last lesson assumed that was a major reason for people becoming postal workers.


Oh good, so the children were thinking beyond just those wearing scrubs when answering her question. She was pleased about this. ”There is a whole TEAM of people who are responsible for the business side of running a hospital. That includes handling things like hiring, billing and money, communication, and technology. All of these jobs can be just as stressful and if not for these type of positions, hospitals and the doctors and nurses working in them, couldn’t be do as good of a job. Nice thinking, ladies.”



It was clear that many of the students had experience with a hospital environment, some in a negative way. Meredith smiled reassuringly as they shared their knowledge, wondering if this had been the best subject to cover. Still, they were handling things maturely and SHE would not being asking them to share personal experiences so they had no reason to worry. They’d be moving on to the next thing soon enough, promise.

”Based on the answers your classmates have given, it is clear that there are all kinds of doctors and nurses and many specialize in dealing with a specific part of the body. Specialists are extremely important and you can trust that whether there’s a problem somewhere on your head, or somewhere on your toes, there is a doctor and nurse out there who know how to deal with it.” Which was reassuring, yes? At least for those with muggle family members. ” There are also doctors that deal with babies specifically, children specifically, and adults specifically.” Specialties were common in the medical field.




”I’m glad that Mr. Newell and Ms. Xanthopoulos mentioned two professions that are not directly relating to medicine.” She smiled at both and nodded her head. ”There is a whole bunch of jobs in hospitals that have nothing to do with taking care of the sick. Janitors, cooks, and gift shop workers-to name a few-all help keep the hospital going and provide their own kind of comfort. I’d say especially to the families of the sick, knowing they’re in a clean environment and getting fed and cared for is comforting. Plus the gift shop usually gives family and friends an opportunity to cheer up a patient with flowers or balloons.” Moxley LOVED balloons, okay? LOVED them.

And Tobias’s answer was the perfect transition into the next part of their discussion! Brilliant! ”Surgeons, yes.” There were different kinds-specialists had been discussed-but that was a good answer. ”We’ll be talking a bit more about surgeons specifically during our activity but I’d like to touch on something else you mentioned.” She grinned and after updating the board with notes, she turned her attention to the class as a whole.

”As we’ve discussed before, there are many similarities and differences between those living in the muggle world and those living in the wizarding one. I’d like to hear some differences between how we handle sickness in the muggle world and how we handle it in the wizarding world. Mr. Fuller-Thompson already mentioned our use of spells and potions. Is there anything else you can think of? Don’t be afraid to think outside the box.”

It was fascinating to learn about muggle hospitals and Lux was really curious to find out what the activity for today would be. Activities were always the best part of lessons in her opinion.

Thinking of differences between how magical and muggle sickness is treated, she was stumped. Besides spells and potions she had no idea what to add. Best to sit this one out.

Margo's father was muggle and worked as an accountant, but he was boring and almost always stayed at work through over half the night. He was always too busy for her and after she had gotten accepted spent even less time with her. So no she could not bring up her father's job. But she had an uncle who was a Cardiac Surgeon. "My uncle's a cardiac surgeon. He operates on hearts all the time." Margo said thinking her Uncle Paul was much cooler than her own father.

"Well I know that in the muggle world they use stitches a lot, like they literally sew your body back together when there is wound." Margo said thinking of the time her brother cut his hand on some glass and they were closer to the muggle hospital the St. Mungo's so their mother just took Mason to get some stitches. "And here we just magically close wounds!" Margo was pretty proud of herself for knowing that. After all she wanted to be a doctor just like her uncle some days, maybe a healer now that she had magic on her side.

Information. There was lots of those so Adi wrote down what he could. Really, he didn't need to write everything since he was familiar with the basics of Muggle medical stuff. Ohh, surgeons! Cool! Tobias had hit the nail on the head.

Done with his notes, the fifth year raised his hand. "Muggles use medication in the form of medicines and capsules or tablets to make themselves better. They are usually prescribed by doctors or pharmacists but there are some that are over the counter. That means the medicines or tablets could be sold without a prescription.'' Best be thorough for the sake of those who weren't familiar with those.

PROFESSOR MOXLEY SAID EDEN WAS GOOD THINKING. Yes! Score! Eden was HAPPY. She felt all SMART and stuff, now. SEE? Eden could Ravenclaw.

She scribbled down some notes, but it was mostly stuff she knew already from...yeah, her mam being a muggle. Eden never liked going to the doctors, either. She had honestly never been to a healer before. Irene McGee didn't trust the magical equivalent...for some strange reason, at least it seemed strange to Eden.

Hmph.

She raised her hand a little....WAIT?

WHAT?

FULLER-THOMPSON?

SINCE WHEN DID TOBY CHANGE HIS NAME? She felt like she should have known this. Oops. She was a bad friend...........sigh. She'd have to apologize or something...even though he didn't know she was being a bad friend...SHE WAS.

"Muggles have to treat sickness with SCIENCE and we use MAGIC." Well that wasn't an out of the box answer, but still. It was TRUTH.

Whoa there. Lots of notes happening all of a sudden. Norah scribbled each point hurriedly in her notes, because Professor Moxley was ALREADY moving on. She did take a moment to grin at the Professor, though, because her answer had been relevant and EVERYTHING. So there.

Besides spells and potions? THAT was a bit harder. Um um. Uuuummm. Norah scratched her nose with the feathery end of her quill as she tried to think up something creative. She shrugged a little as she thought up something that miiiight work, and put her hand up in the air anyway, 'cause why not? "Sometimes our problems are really different, 'cause muggles don't get hurt with spells gone wrong 'n stuff, but sometimes we have the same kind of thing but we treat it differently, which is kinda cool. Like when my gran 'n gramps have the sniffles they just wait until it goes away and have some kind of vitamin thingy, but when wizards have colds we drink that potion that makes your ears go all smokey. Or at least my mum does." The third year then proceeded to make a face, because that potion was all pepper-y and capital G Gross.

Angel smiled as the Professor said that she liked her answer and then she listened to the next question and raised her hand. "Professor, muggles treatment can be very painful, like if you break a wrist and put it out of position we have our wand to fix it but in a muggle hospital they have to manually replace it." Angel also knew that they could refuse treatment but she wasn't sure if you could at St. Mungo, she decided that she would have to look it up.

Hablablablabla blahhhhh...

He wasn't sure how he felt about this topic. But... he was still here, and still listening, so that counted for something right? Right?

As for what was different between the two worlds... well.

Hand up, Zeke offered his understanding, "Time, Professor. Healing time for certain injuries and illnesses is different. What might take weeks in the muggle world can take minutes in the wizarding, but then there are things that happen in the wizarding world which are really extreme compared to injuries and illnesses in the muggle world... so those can take longer, but are not likely to ever occur to muggles unless there's like a bad guy who hates muggles and goes and curses them all." Yeah.

So...

What had he been saying? ...

Well... Toby had already mentioned spells and potions, so did that mean he'd technically already answered this one? The Hufflepuff sat there a few moments, fiddling with his quill and chewing the inside of his lip and thinking. Eventually he raised his hand again.

"This is like what Zeke said," he began, nodding his head towards the second year. "But basically, wizards have a quick fix or whatever for almost every muggle health problem. Except for, like, some brain stuff. And eyesight problems." Because a ton of wizards and witches wore glasses, right? It was just one of those things. "And probably some other things that are kinda complex." Toby didn't know what those might be, not being a healer. "But there are specific wizarding, like... ailments, that can't be fixed quite so easily. Like... curses or venom from magical creatures or botched potions. They're pretty specific to us. But if it's an injury or disease that muggles can get without being exposed to our world, more often than not we'd be able to fix it."

Which was... sad. So sad. To think of those muggles who couldn't benefit from magic and stuff and were like, super in pain? Which made Toby think of something else, a something that he added after just a moment of hesitation. "Which is why magical people tend to live longer than non-magical people."

Ugh. Sad. Okay. Toby was just going to... put his head down on the desk for a moment. Yeah. Okay.

Kace heard the professor explain all of this stuff he already knew. He even saw some other students dazing off in the classroom but I mean it was for the magical students here too. As the professor moved on he heard her question and she wondered what was the difference between handling sickness in the magical world than the human. He heard Zeke's answer and he gave props to the little dude. He got it spot on. He grinned and raised his hand on the obvious one too...

"Professor I think it is all has to do with procedures too. I mean here in the magical world I have seen unusual procedures like especially like Margo said with the stitches. It was something I haven't seen before. Also like medicine like Skelegro. I wish that could be used in the muggle world that would be wayy easier than waiting six weeks for your bones to be well again in a cast." he shrugged voicing his opinion and he wondered if he answered the question right. He thought he did.

Well now that all the proper answers were gone, what was Zander supposed to say?! Sure Professor Moxley had said to think outside of the box, but this box was so defined and how was he supposed to think outside of it when-- Wait. Maybe he had something. But just maybe, okay?

"Well sometimes, muggle treatments include different therapies and stuff... Like when you hurt a body part or something they make you do physical therapies." And according to his mum, it was a very expensive process. That's why his older brother had to stop going, though, it seemed a bit silly either way. Nothing that he couldn't do at home... All the stretches and stuff, at least. "But I reckon a quick potion can just fix any of those problems." Like Toberson had mentioned earlier.

Dot worried over her bottom lip as she listened to her classmates answer the next question. There was something niggling in the back of her mind, something that her mother had complained about, and it was pertinent. What... was it? She gave Moxley a long stare as she tried to remember.

Oh! Finger wiggle! "Professor, I think that use of magic might mean that the person doing magical healing isn't as well versed in anatomy or the healing arts as a person doing Muggle healing. Because sometimes spells or potions can make you lazy and you just do a quick fix without really understanding what's wrong on a deeper level, so really anyone can do he spell or brew the potion, while Muggles probably have to go to an actual professional Healer-type... doctor person to get healed."

Janelle had to write quickly to keep up with all of the information hat was flying around. There certainly were a lot of professions associated with hospitals. She had never really bothered to stop and think about it before. As her fingers began to cramp, Professor Moxley offered another question. Taking a break fom writing, Janelle thought about the question for a moment.

Then something came to her. She wasn't sure that it was the best answer in the world, but she decided to throw it out there. "Muggles use X-rays to see inside of people's bodies. You can see broken bones or if something is wrong with a certain part of your body. The Wizarding world doesn't have anything like that......at least I don't think they do."

HMMM how was their medicine different than the muggle world? Lots of ways, mainly in the form of spells...but Caleb kept thinking of PLANTS too. He raised his hand.

"Well, a lot of our potions are plant based," he pointed out. "Muggles DO use plants and herbal remedies, but I believe many of their medicines are more chemical based," he added. Those giant horse pill things people had to take...GROSS. It made him gag just thinking of it! "There's a lot of debate as to whether or not natural plant based remedies are more effective and if chemicals are more harmful than we originally thought," he added.

Blair thought long and hard about this question. there must be thousands of way in which muggle and magical healing differ. Her mind had gone blank, of course there was the obvious which had been mentioned, muggles use medicines in healthcare whereas in the wizarding world they had the ability to use potions and spells to cure all manner or illnesses.

Blair raised her hand, "Professor, the main difference I can think of is in regards to medical procedures. To find out what is going on within the body muggles use all sorts of tests whether it be a simple blood test or having a more complex MRI/CT scan. Is there an alternative in the wizarding world?" If so she was positive her father would want to hear about it. She made a mental note to include this in her next owl home.

Most of the things mentioned was the reason Beverly trusted healers over muggle doctors. Not because of their knowledge on treating patients or their skill -- though that was important -- but on time. If a bone needed quick healing, as much as muggle doctor would love to heal it as fast as he could, he couldn't. It just wasn't possible for them. Whereas for wizards, why would you even consider waiting when there's Skelegrow?

There were also other things that could be tackled faster in the wizarding world. The kind Beverly was curious about but too shy to ask about. M'hm.

Thinking the question over a bit, Beverly raised her hand. "Wizards don't use stitches like muggles do. It's usually attended to with spells or Essence of Dittany, which comes in handy with deep wounds." Her dad had plenty of that back home. When he had a wild spirit for a daughter, the man had to prepare himself, and dear ol' daddy always was.

One thing about being a muggle for eleven whole years was that it pretty much made her a genius in this class. It was nice to feel all Ravenclaw-y in one class anyways.

There was so many positions that she could choose from, but what to say? There were some pretty lame ones, and there there were some super awesome ones. AJ thought for a moment, and then raised her hand. "There's a morgue technician." Got straight for creepy. Was there anything better than that? "They get to suck up all the bodily fluids and put the dead body on ice." Was that enough of an elaboration for her?



Hmm... spells and potions were going to be her answer. Out of the box thinking? Yeah, she could do that. Her hand was waving in the air because patience was not something she had. "What about chants? Like, you could burn sage and stuff and chant around the person." Then again that could be said about muggle people too. People were mad crazy.