The doctor is stolen by an unscrupulous trader and sold into slavery in a hospital where only those who are deemed to have value to society are given adequate treatment. The doctor has no choice but to treat those around him – his ethical subroutines see to that. He is assigned to a section where the privileged prisoners are treated, and he begins stealing medicine and filtering it down to save those who would die without it. When he is detected, the young boy he was helping is left to die without his knowledge. Exasperated, he forces the calculating hospital administrator to take the place of the boy, with the same life-threatening ailment and the same inability to get the computer to issue the proper medicine. With help from the other high-ranking doctor, the administrator gives in and agrees to supply more medicine.
It’s a nice thought, but the script is weak and the resolution too quick. It fares better when Neelix gets to help out by serving gaseous food to the trader to get information.
Universal Healtcare at its finest!
ReplyDeleteDespite the fact that the hospital ship was actually the opposite of universal healthcare, instead healthcare for the privileged at the expense of the needy. You fail.
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