Ripley gets dragged into the ER every otherweek when one of her siblings gets sick and her mum doesn’t have time to get asitter (or, more often than not, because she fell out of a tree or ripped herstitches or whatever). Jen’s the ER doctor who always finds her day brightenedby whatever story Ripley has to tell (“What happened this timeRipley?” “NEXT DOORS CAT HAD KITTENS SO I CLIMBED A TREE TO GET A BETTER LOOK” “Andlet me guess, you fell out?” “ONTO A FENCE”)
Jo’s a Doogie Howser style child genius who gother medical licence at 14 and who more often than not get mistaken for a kidwho’s wandered out of bounds.
The Bear Woman’s worked in her ward sinceforever and furiously resists every change in procedure and policy because inher words, you don’t fix what’s not broke. There’s a rumour that she’d still beusing leeches if they’d let her.
Jen and Rosie absolutely but heads about howmuch freedom the children’s ward should be given. “THEY’RE SICK YOU CAN’T JUSTLET THEM WANDER AROUND” “Oh, it’ll be fine”.
Barney regularly sneaks into the girl’s roomnext door because Apollo, the nurse in charge of supervising him is grosslyoffensive literally all the time. (Plus the girls seem to be having more fun).