The next day Captain John McIntyre arrived at the MASH. He frowned when he realized that Khezia was a woman doctor; he flared up and stormed over to the C. O's office immediately. Khezia was lying on her bunk when Radar walked in. "Khezia."

"Yes Radar."

"I support you."

"Huh?" the woman pushed herself up on her elbows and looked at him.

"I don't agree with what the other doctors say. I actually think its swell that you are a doctor."

"Thanks Radar. I needed that."

"Welcome."

"Come on, I'll buy you a drink at Rosie's Bar."

"Sure." She and Radar walked laughing to the bar.

After a very dry martini Khezia walked back to the doctors' tent. When she was nearby she heard the three doctors discussing her. She hid behind the wall and listened. "I think it is revolting that they allowed a woman doctor to Korea." McIntyre complained. "Personally I think women shouldn't be allowed to become doctors." Burns growled. Khezia stood straight and walked through the door.

"Excuse me, Major, but I don't think you should judge a doctor on their sex but on their skill. I have been chief surgeon for a year now. I have six doctors under me and some of them have been practicing medicine since before I was born. If you don't like that I am a doctor well tough. So just leave my sex out of my skill." She stepped behind the curtain and sat down on her bunk.

Major Burns stood and walked over to her cot. He pulled the curtain back and stared at her. "I told you I would only let you off once but now you have gone too far." He walked toward the door but her voice stopped her.

"I wouldn't do that."

"And why not." "Just believe me when I say not to."

"Humph!" Major Burns walked out of the officer's tent and walked toward Col. Blake's office.

"Now ya done it." Pierce frowned. He and McIntyre stood and walked out of the tent. "Great." Khezia sighed.

Khezia walked into the office just as the major finished complaining about her. "Captain Tyler, I am afraid that I am going to have to punish you."

"Now I feel like a child." She mumbled making Pierce smile a little.

"Like I told the Major, Sir. I would not do that if I were you."

"Why not?"

"Do I have to say?"

"Yes, I order you to say why."

"Okay, fine. Did I mention that one of my closest friends is Mrs. Truman? I have had dinner many times with her and her husband." Khezia smiled sweetly and reclined against the wall.

"Do you still wanna press charges, Major Burns?" Col. Blake asked.

"No." he squeaked and fled from the room. Co. Blake dismissed them immediately.

On the way back to their tent Pierce and McIntyre turned and stepped in front of her. "Look, you will have our courtesy but not our respect or our friendship. We will see how long you last." McIntyre snorted. Khezia endured their hard looks for the next week.

Khezia was sitting in the mess tent talking with Radar when Corporal Klinger came rushing him. "I need a doctor quick!"

"What's wrong?" Khezia stood up quickly and rushed over to him.

"It's Captain Pierce he's been bitten by a snake." McIntyre, friends called him Trapper John, who was standing in the food line, dropped his tray and came rushing up to Klinger.

"What kind of snake?" he ordered. He was standing right beside Khezia and she could feel the fear radiating off of him. The two captains had become great friends in the past week.

"I'm not sure but he's got a fever." McIntyre and Khezia rushed out of the tent and over to the officer's quarters, which was called the Swamp.

Trapper threw the door open and knelt beside Pierce's cot.

"Hawkeye?"

"Trapper." Pierce smiled grimly.

"Hawk, tell me. Did you see what kind of snake it was?"

"No."

"Where's the bite?"

"My right leg." Hawkeye Pierce nodded to his leg. Khezia pulled a knife out of her back pocket and cut the materiel away from his calf. Two small puncture marks could be found on the side of his leg. The skin around the bite was turning a dark green. "

That looks bad." Trapper mused from beside Khezia. "Go ask Henry if we have any anti-venom." Khezia nodded and ran back out of the door.

She ran through the office doors and into a conversation between Henry (Col. Blake) and Major Houlihan. "Henry." She gasped.

"Not now, Khezia. I am busy talking with Margaret." Khezia grabbed Margaret's arm and shoved her out the door.

"Now you aren't. Look Hawkeye's been bitten by a snake. We don't know what kind. Do we have any anti-venom in the supply tent?"

"No."

"Darn." She, Henry, and Radar raced out of the office and over to the officer's tent, frequently called The Swamp.