The sickbay on USS Highlander NCC - 11895 is extremely compact and stands ready to handle all kinds of medical problems among the ship's multi - species crew. Located on Deck 2, it is also equipped to detect, contain and aid, forms of life and bio hazards not yet imagined. The sickbay walls flicker with diagnostic and sensor displays. The small medical lab attached to sickbay contains advanced bioassay and lifeform analysis hardware, as well as genetic sequence, nanotherapy and virotherapeutic equipment

Every Hospital needs beds, and Highlander is equipped with the latest state of the art diagnostic bio beds. While the patient rest comfortably in the biobed, unobtrusive biological sensors continually measure their status This ever changing information is reported in a diagnostic display at the head of the bed. Patient status information can also be fed to tricorders, remote stations in the ship and the sickbays's main diagnostic display

The USS Highlander is also equipped with a Emergency Medical Hologram Mark 2. The EMH 2 is programmed with the knowledge of 100's of organic doctors from across the Federation, including biological and sociological features of many races. It is intended to be a short term replacement for, or supplement to, a "real" medical officer.

Among the instruments in use are the medical tricorder, the hypospray, the dermal regenerator, the osteroregenerator, the cortical probe, the pulmonary scanner, the cytoplasmic stimulator, and the neural headpad. For more serious injuries and illnesses, a surgical support frame is used to monitor the patient's condition. This creates a sterile field in which the surgeon can work. Sickbay keeps a medical record of crew members down to the DNA level