He was a bit more surprised to find that he was in the company of a fellow doctor than he was to know that Sam was older than he looked. Maybe the fact that they were both doctors--and even more specifically, surgeons, had something to do with why they were brought here, or why their pods had been so close to each other.

"I'm...also a trauma surgeon, if you want to believe that, though I've most recently been doing work on a spaceship."