Gabe sighed, he was out of patients for the day or so he thought. Resurgam First Care hadn’t been too busy lately - at least his case load wasn’t.

Gabe put out yet another cigarette in his ash tray and called out to the computer stand - his AI assistant RONI “RONI, can you boot up another game of poker - I’m feeling pretty lucky!” Gabe quips

The digitized female voice rings out after RONI was awoken from sleep mode by Gabe’s voice - the computer screen was blue and pulsing as the voice sounded out. “Doctor.. you’ve lost every game we played. Poker game initializing right now, please hold.”

Gabe guffaws “Dammit, RONI you can at least humor a guy can’t ya? Something to kill time. Who knows maybe I’ll get a lucky shuffle these days? I’m outta patients and I’m outta cigarettes.”

RONI processes and thinks. “Doctor, humoring is not in my pre-programmed qualities. Would you like me to look up the nearest location that sells cigarettes?”

Gabe waves his hand “Psh, no, no I don’t need IT questioning my use of the hospital wifi on duty, that won’t help me right now. Just.. boot up the card game. Better yet maybe you should look up some damn jokes.”

A knock at the door sounds which might hopefully save Gabe from his boredom or at least a temporary distraction…