You prescribe your roommate Tranquilix and she starts to do better. She has less and less delusions surrounding her desire for her father or to resurrect her dead hamster through a paradoxical decomposition. About a week and a half into her taking Tranquilix, she starts developing night terrors and shortness of breath. She goes to the hospital to get checked out by a real doctor.
That next day you come into work at the hospital to find human resources waiting for you in your office.
Some cold man, in a cheap suit, hands you a formal letter saying you’re fired and another saying that your medical license has been suspended pending an ongoing investigation.
“I’m sorry but it turns out you prescribed Tranquilix to your roommate who turned out was playing you this whole time to fund her underground drug empire.”
“Wait, what drug empire?” you panicked.
“Ever hear of Requiem, I’m sure you had no idea she was making the stuff in your own half bath.”
“I don’t even use that bathroom,”
“Yeah, sure you don’t save it for the medical review board!”
You are escorted out of the hospital with all of your stuff, fired because you prescribed a drug to your roommate. You should have known you shouldn’t prescribe experimental new anti-depressants when you’re just a dermatologist and didn’t have a complete medical history, but you just didn’t listen to yourself and went for the quick fix.
Congratulations, you stopped Sarah from resurrecting her hamster, but you lost your medical license. Apparently Tranquilix has been used as the key ingredient to a dangerous party drug easily synthesized with ingredients from Pepto Bismol, and Tylenol the kids are calling Requiem in the streets. Some laws went into place and now you’re caught in a new set of laws to get this street drug under control.
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