how to raise money for an expensive surgery

why not broadcast it online? viewers can pay a small fee and hospital and medical equipment suppliers will pay larger fees to advertise directly. if you don't have insurance and can't afford to pay for the surgery, there's nothing wrong letting the public watch. some viewers will be medical students and learn not to repeat mistakes when something goes wrong and you die. at least you won't die in vain or leave your family in debt.

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Reuse of illegal drugs

I think it's a good idea to re-use illegal drugs that are seized by the police and supply hospitals and marijuana dispensaries for medical treatment use. Why burn or destroy what gets confiscated when we can use it and save our health system some money.

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That's sooo wrong!!!

I don't want to advertise them here but there are websites where people report the names of people with sexually transmitted diseases like hiv, herpes, etc...Problem is anyone can put anyone's name on the site and in order to delete your name if it's not true you must provide medical reports to the website owner that you are std-free!!

Some people think this is the right thing to do but I personally think they should ban such websites. You don't right a wrong with a wrong. What's your view on this sensitive matter?

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Should a doctor treat a masochist patient with pain?

Medicine and technology have improved so much that it's possible to go to the dentist and if the dentist is good not feel a drop of pain, something that was not possible years ago. That kind of medical treatment, however, assumes that all patients like to avoid pain. What if a patient is a masochist? What if the patient actually prefers treatment with pain over one without? Asking this question to a patient would be the politically correct thing to do and for patients who are masochists it would mean respect and more satisfaction. If we establish the right of the masochist for a treatment with pain, does the doctor have the right to refuse such treatment to a patient who asks for it? On what grounds? The treatment will heal the patient.

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Movie scenario

2011. The US economy is going through its Greatest Depression. People everywhere are gloomy, depressed, unhappy. The government is too embarrassed and stops reporting suicide rates. Government-provided universal health coverage in the US has been implemented and all medical records are digital. All patient-doctor communication is electronic, therapy is delivered online and patients rarely visit the doctor at his office. The government wants to do something drastic to end the Depression and decides to write a software that will inform every citizen that they have been diagnosed with a terminal illness. You get informed that you have 1-2 years of healthy life in front of you before the illness takes over.

Will the government's action, however drastic, energize people to ostracize misery and gloom from their lives and turn a whole nation away from depression?

Do you think it is an interesting scenario for a movie? I imagine that the end will be that the whole nation will recover fast from the economic slump and misery but when the people realize that their diagnosis was fake they will be shocked not knowing whether to forgive or not forgive their government for lying to them.

How would you develop the story?

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