Keller was standing in the way of helping Rodney. She did want to keep him back but for the wrong reasons. She felt quilty and she had to be the one to cure him. She made that very clear in her actions. If she had been thinking like a doctor she should have considered that the shrine might have had a way to treat Rodney. This is the pegasus qalaxy and weird stuff is normal. Even if it was magical fairies and pixie dust with both Teyla and Ronon vouching for it she should have at least considered it even with it being fatal. Many cures are until perfected. With her running out of options they should have at least sent someone to check it out preferably when Ronon first suggested it. This was her Doranda. Rodney was almost out of time and nothing she tried was working. If Ronon hadn't insisted on going Rodney would have been dead and it would have been her fault. What she did wrong wasn't the late diagnosis but the fact that she let her crush and her guilt and her need to be the one to cure him blind her to a way to treat him. I think people would have been ok with this if she had been called on it but no she was even given all the credit for saving Rodney when really Ronon and John were responsible for coming up with the solution.
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Date: 2008-09-24 08:08 am (UTC)