Bigpharma Stories

Lori and Max may have just met, but in the next few days they will stop an evil company, save Max's vampire brother, and maybe even fall in love...?

Reliving a flashbulb memory

When Dr. James Rogers is asked to consult on a case, he's more than slightly surprised at the patient with symptoms he's never seen before. But anomalies happen. At least, that's what he thinks until the body count starts to rise. With more people dying and powerful people trying to silence him, James' only hope at survival is keeping his head down while he figures out how to save his city. That and a grumpy detective who keeps turning up every time he's in trouble.

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It is painfully obvious that the good and the ugly coexist in the pharmaceutical industry and it is high time that the greedy fraudsters be rooted out and brought to justice.

A doctor shows his true worth in dealing with his patients.

Dr. Miriam Gotlin is intent on building a medical practice in which caring for patients also means caring about them. When a desperately ill AIDS patient is admitted to the hospital and fails to respond to an injection that had always worked, Miriam refuses to give up. She begins to suspect that the injection is counterfeit, but to whom can she turn for help? Her closest colleague recently vanished, a trusted friend appears to be hindering her investigation, and an accusation involving missing narcotics threatens to detonate on her doorstep any day. Miriam's fight to save her reputation, practice and most of all her patients, all while retaining compassion-no matter what-will bring her face to face with those who attach dollar signs to every human life, including her own.

A compilation of stories about mental health and struggles of past regrets

It is 2071, and Yélif works at a hospital where social relationships are controlled, a world dominated by Big Pharma and insurance companies. Yélif is different, he asks a lot of questions and strongly feels the need for social connections, which is not the case for his colleagues who are used to frequenting Love Houses provided for them. Through blood tests, Yélif finally understands what makes him different from his colleagues. During a shift, under special circumstances, he meets an old doctor, Dr. Ali, who is no longer practicing, but whose sharpness of mind and cynicism intrigue Yélif. The two doctors form a friendship and Ali will give his young colleague a journal that he has kept since 1990 and in which he has a pertinent view of the world around him. He understands how doctors were stripped of their free will by a maneuver orchestrated by insurance companies. This journal will also allow him to find the keys to solve a mystery he is facing: intriguing events lead him to discover unusual procedures within this medical world dominated by insurance companies. In his investigation, he discovers that insurance companies use genome analysis to select their members. He will be aided by a young colleague, Azel, who will accompany him throughout his journey and whom he will fall in love with. As part of a medical mission, Yélif takes care of a young athlete, Siwel, whose body has been modified by transhumanist techniques. Yélif discovers the procedures used by pharmaceutical companies to create an improved human, procedures that Yélif firmly denounces. This dialogue between two eras is a kind of fairy tale of the future whose ultimate goal is to enlighten us on the anomalies of the present.

This is the short story I wrote for my Communications 341 New Media class. It's the story result of taking a Communications 341 class at the same time as a Sociology 261 class. So fair warning, this gets a bit political. I hope you enjoy!