Title: The Physician's Oath
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Kirk/McCoy
Word Count: 1,265
Warnings: language, some description of third degree burns
Summary: For the hc_bingo prompt loss of limbs/limb function - Jim's glad, and not for the first time, that they live in modern times.

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( Jim wakes up curled on his side on a biobed in sickbay, confused that nothing hurts, that he doesn't hear the steady beeping of the monitor punctuating his heartbeat above his head. )