The Medical Complex is in fact just one section of a much larger section of rooms. In its centre is the central biobed which can be seen in the picture below. Scattered around the walls of the main area are numerous work stations which use computer interfaces and equipment. Against the wall are at least four other biobeds. They are best reserved in advance.

There is also, on Deck 18 in the Stardrive section, a secondary sickbay which offers similar facilities.

Separate from the main sickbay is the main patient ward where longer term medical problems are resolved, the intensive care unit, the trauma stasis unit, the isolation ward, and the dedicated surgery suite.

The medical complex stands ready to handle all kinds of medical problems among the ship's multi-species crew by being staffed by medical personnel at all times and shifts. 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 bio-essay and lifeform analysis hardware, as well as genetic sequence, nanotherapy and virotherapeutic equipment.

Every Hospital needs beds, and Galaxy is equipped with a plethora of diagnostic bio beds. While the patient rests 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 medical tricorders, remote stations in the ship and the sickbay's main diagnostic display.

The USS Galaxy is also equipped with a Emergency Medical Hologram, Mark IV. The Mark IV is programmed with 6.5 million possible treatments from the collective information of 2400 medical references and the personal experiences of over 100 individual medical officers, including biological and sociological features of many races. A sample of the reference material includes Henry Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body, Inventarium sive chirurgia magna, Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, Antaak's Guidebook to Comparative Klingon Anatomy, and, suspiciously, the Kama Sutra. The Mark IV is also supplemented with contingency programs and adaptive programs to learn while serving as a supplement of a normal medical staff in cases of emergency. The EMH is intended to be a short-term supplement to a "real" medical officer. When situations arise where the EMH Mark IV is insufficient to fulfill medical needs, a Long-term Emergency Medical Hologram (LMH) is available.

Among the instruments in use are the medical tricorder, the hypospray, the dermal regenerator, the osteogenic stimulator, the cortical probe, the pulmonary scanner, the cytoplasmic stimulator, and the neural headpad. You would find all of these on a standard medical equipment tray.

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.