Grumpy fatalism..

“With people shooting at everything that moves? There are a lot of wounded that need care, young lady. If the rebels take the city the empire will bomb the hospital and if the empire holds it they will do worse things to this young man,” he said.

“I you wish a fools run, let me patch him together enough for you to move him,” he said.

Romantics and idealists were the two hardest groups to deal with, logic of the heart and not the head. Metball surgery was about healing the wound and getting hem ack in the fight. It as taught from early medical training in the Empire.