[ WP ] You live in a world where sickness and disease visibly identify where it comes from .

Ever since the advent of MediWhere, us doctors have n't really had as much work to do. The origin of the disease is always readable from the scanners that the government program provided us with. My current patient had a disease he had contracted from the local elementary school. Schools are so full of kids who have some sort of disease in them that sometimes tracing diseases through schools can be tricky, especially in the more common cases like colds or the flu. 
 
 Back to my current patient. The MediWhere readout gave three sets of coordinates. The first was where the disease was contracted in the first place. His was the school I mentioned earlier. The second was where this strain of virus had last mutated, and which virus it had branched off from. In his case, it was a common cold pathogen we had on file, and it had branched off at a house near the school, probably with some kid. The treatment was simple in this case. 
 
 I called the nurse over and asked her for 50 ccs of Xantamorine, the latest government brand for cold treatment. I gave her the identifier of the virus so she could add it to the latest treated versions. She quickly returned with the appropriate syringe, and gave the patient a quick shot in the arm. 
 
 After she gave him the dosage, I checked my tablet one last time. The third coordinate very rarely mattered at all. It was the origin of the original virus. The location was some remote European village, like most of the common diseases running around nowadays. The geniuses who had designed it had felt the need to include planet of location, Terra-1. Why we would ever need that, who knows. 
 
 After finishing my shift for the day in the practical lab, I grabbed some coffee from the break room. I was about to head home, but one of the lab techs stopped me before I could. He explained that there was a patient he wanted me to see. I was one of the most skilled doctors with MediWhere, if that can be said. The technology is simple, but like Excel, every office has one person who is known as the wizard. 
 
 I followed him down the hall to one of the open rooms. Before we entered, he explained that there had been an issue using MediWhere with her earlier, a bug he had never seen before. I frowned, then entered the room. There was a woman laying in the bed there. She seemed to be around 30, looking mostly healthy. I scanned her file briefly. She had come in for a slight abdominal pain. 
 
 Using the scanner on her torso, the facts of the disease quickly spun up. It was listed as a tumor, likely benign, attached to the stomach. The readout for the first location was standard, a suburban area nearby, likely at home, except for the elevation. That reading was three miles off the ground. I sipped my coffee pensively, and scrolled to the second location. There was none listed, which was not unusual for rarer diseases or cancerous ones like this tumor. They were started by the body on its own, not originating from another source. I expected the third reading to be similarly blank, but seeing it, I almost choked on my coffee. 
 
 The location was blank, but the planet was listed as A6 454. I showed the tech, and he confirmed that that was the part that most concerned him earlier. My guess was that one of the programmers had put in some sort of joke in the file. I recommended removal of the tumor, and I submitted a report that night at home. 
 
 When I came back the next day, the woman had been found dead, with her stomach ripped open. It must have been a botched procedure, typically rare with the surgeon bots, but not unheard of. But when I checked her file, there was no report of any surgery. 
 
 The system must just be acting up, I thought, right before I felt a cold tentacle wrap around my ankle. 
 
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