Out here, the sea doesn’t care whether a problem came from a broken bone or a bad bit of luck inside the body. The tricky ones are the quiet starts: indigestion that won’t sit still, a fever that keeps climbing, a crewmate who’s “just tired” but can’t quite answer straight.
When there’s no clinic down the road, you fall back on the basics and good habits. Keep the patient warm and still, keep your own head clear, and start writing things down with the time like you mean to hand it to a doctor later. Most of the work is simple—done carefully—and the hard part is knowing when simple isn’t enough.