mostlyajerk: (pied piper style)
Hartley Rathaway - Pied Piper ([personal profile] mostlyajerk) wrote in [community profile] hogwrites 2023-05-21 05:05 pm (UTC)

Doctor Strange,

I'm wondering whether everyone in the medical community has a template they share to send to me. I appreciate that you at least left out the covert homophobia. Equally dismissive, less hateful.

A successful one-on-one treatment is a lot more than we currently have for anyone in the latter stages of AIDS. You are of course correct about the trial period, but we have one willing human volunteer. I am positive that you have the know-how to realise that AZT, at this stage, would kill my partner. Painfully so. He would rather put his trust in me and my methods. I do not wish to let him down.

I will do this no matter what. If you'd rather gather more pointless accolades at conferences full of other cowards instead of remembering your oath, I hope you enjoy the canapés they serve. For next years keynote speech, when I'm bereaved, I'd love to make the journey. I suggest the title 'Hippocratic or hypocritic: Doctors without spines'.

Have good conferences. I'll go watch my world bleed out.

Hartley Rathaway

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