The Doctor and the Chrysanthemum

[Doc Holliday]

He thought a moment. He researched everything just to know why if nothing else but there was a medical reason for the liquid cardamine.

"When sixty percent of my patients are combat injuries, the liquid cardamine is needed. When that sixty percent comes to me unconscious and with chest wounds and some of that are Outcasts or others who are addicted to cardamine, it is needed. They cannot use a breather and will die without cardamine in their system so I go old school on them. An injection directly into the bloodstream is the difference between life and death. If I have to induce a medical coma to allow them to heal, I can use it in an I.V."
He himself grew a little irritated as the use of cardamine in medicine was considered unethical by most, himself included.
"Besides my own staff, you are the only person that knows that I use this treatment for those addicted. I could be arrested and jailed for it but as you said, the benefits greatly outweigh the drawbacks. That is why I need the liquid cardamine but have so little of it..." He sighed and collected himself, "....which is why I came to you. You seem like someone I can work with."

He took a sip of his Scotch, again offering Marika some. "And for what it is worth, I research everything just to know why if nothing else. Call it a weakness."

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