"I feel much better!" he assures her, sitting up happily. "Thank you. Do I - pay you, or -"

"I am forbidden from seeking renumeration for my services. You should communicate with the receptionist outside about your required renumeration for the Amalien government."

"- okay?" He'll go out and do that then.

Next patient is someone having trouble with the atmosphere! Or possibly some kind of space pollen!

Xeelia scans the patient's lungs.

It's some of both.

Possibly there is an underlying cause.

""Catalogue any other symptoms you have, including those that may seem unrelated."

...does she want a twenty minute ramble about every idiopathic health thing this guy has ever experienced, because that's how you get that.

Xeelia will accept this - it contains the required content and she is aware non-Borg are very inefficient sometimes.

Twenty minutes later he runs out of content when describing the fact that sometimes he has nightmares and thinks it especially happens if he eats too much fruit.

"That contained minimal helpful information. In order to gather more data you will run on the treadmill in the exercise lab down the hall while I moderate the atmosphere in the room."

Yeah okay. He has never been on a treadmill before but it's not too hard to figure out.

Xeelia slowly cycles the atmosphere through variations, starting with closer to the current atmosphere and exploring various possibilities until she has enough data to determine the underlying atmospheric factors effecting the patient's breathing.

He is used to the Amentan atmosphere and in particular is having a weird feedback cycle about the lower density of atmosphere on Katme.

"You necessitate high density atmospheric conditions than Katme currently has. Your symptoms will go away once the atmosphere-scaping is complete within the next Amentan year, but until then you have two option."

"Option one is decreasing the radii of portions of several of your bronchial tubes to enable your body to pressurize air on it's own, eliminating your symptoms at the cost of a decrease in peak athletic capacity."

"Option two is a pressurized nebulizer that will interrupt the symptomatic feedback loops when necessary, returning your body to its default homeostatic equilibrium."

"Uh, I'll take the nebulizer."

"Are you certain? The decrease in peak athletic capacity can be accounted for with the installation of bionic muscular enhancements."

"- that sounds much more invasive?"

"Correct. That may be an additional benefit."

"- a - benefit?"

"Correct. Invasive cybernetic enhancements provide many long term benefits that other forms of treatment lack."

"I... uh..."

Xeelia holds up a laser saw and flicks it on to demonstrate. It vrrrms ominously. 

He starts hyperventilating even worse than he was before.

Xeelia is confused.

... Well he did ask for a nebulizer, so she will put the saw down and give him one.