Grayscale: A Short Story

The scientists discover that the disease kills through coagulation or clotting of the blood, but it could also cause insanity due to the blood in the brain clotting. The newborn and the old man survived because their blood was more acidic than the rest of the town. When one of the scientists on the team is exposed to the disease they realize that at that point the disease had mutated and became harmless.

we have to use. In the 1500’s people did not have specialized doctors and medicine to cure their

he AIDS hospice reeked from disease and neglect. On my first day there, after an hour of "training," I met Paul, a tall, emaciated, forty-year-old AIDS victim who was recovering from a stroke that had severely affected his speech. I took him to General Hospital for a long-overdue appointment. It had been weeks since he had been outside. After waiting for two and a half hours, he was called in and then needed to wait another two hours for his prescription. Hungry, I suggested we go and get some lunch. At first Paul resisted; he didn’t want to accept the lunch offer. Estranged from his family and seemingly ignored by his friends, he wasn’t used to anyone being kind to him — even though I was only talking about a Big Mac. When it arrived, Paul took his first bite. Suddenly, his face lit up with the biggest, most radiant smile. He was on top of the world because somebody bought him a hamburger. Amazing. So little bought so much. While elated that I had literally made Paul’s day, the neglect and emotional isolation from which he suffered disgusted me. This was a harsh side of medicine I had not seen before. Right then and there, I wondered, "Do I really want to go into medicine?"

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Imagine suffering for many years before being diagnosed with a chronic illness, and told that there is no cure for the disease that has already burdened you for all this time. Yes, there are treatments and medications for most illnesses, yet these medications are extremely costly and the costs can add up quickly.

The pandemic struck the world and infected 1/3 of earth’s human population, killing over 50 million humans. The world’s top doctors have never witnessed anything of this killing magnitude besides the bubonic plague of 1348 but the transmissibility is of nothing they’ve ever seen in their lifetime or of recorded history. People abruptly became aware of the importance of health, and need of medicine and cleanliness.

Lina Vilkas is an average 15 year old girl with a prestigious art school to look forward too, typical

The concrete stairs ascended at a harsh angle, a glistening bronze handrail aside them. At the foot of the stairs was a large, clear landing, void of all but two cracked pots of dying hydrangea and a ratty vending machine that only sold generic ginger ale. There weren't any lights in the landing, nor were there any windows. It was dark and very damp; some green and purple mosses grew in tatters from the ceiling and occasionally stretched across the dusty floor.

Finally. Years of ceaseless efforts. Countless trials and complications. The completion of the cure for humanity. Out of fear of revolt and turmoil, the necessity for a drug that could subdue the subliminal and divert attention to servitude was created. Although the tests on genetically similar animals had been proven positive, it was instrumental to be tested on humans. The apprehension in the lab was omniscient. The next few moments would define the inconceivable effort invested in the project. Would it work? Would we finally overcome the insurmountable odds? I breathed in anticipation. “Bring in the test subject!” I hollered.

When a soldier got an infection from an amputation, the over crowdedness of the camps made it so the disease traveled very quickly to the rest of the soldiers causing even more than one casualty. When the soldiers were traveling, they met extremes of cold or of heat. The different climates that the soldiers were exposed to made it so the soldiers more vulnerable to different diseases. The doctor’s sanitary situation while performing procedures was appalling. The unclean water used in procedures made the soldiers even more susceptible to diseases and infections.

I vividly remember when my whole life shattered into pieces when my perfect life was no longer perfect. It all started when my mom had started having mental problems, it was like a pitch-black cloud rolled in without warning. I thought my life would never be the same, always thinking that my mom would never get better, but I was wrong.

It is sad to think that people live in the now, forgetting or ignoring the heavy price financially, socially and emotionally that they will pay from illnesses created by

In the present day the medicine that has been created has the power to cure almost every disease, but new diseases are always being presented so people are always working to create medicine. During the time of the Black Death this was not the case. After a while, people were

disease exists with a magical drug that can cure it attached to it of course they’ll

As we busily bustle around our lives, a prevalent problem surfaces, disease. The mournful realization when assessing our situation, is that sick people are polluting the world. Diseases spread like wildfire, leaving a wake of destruction in their path. Our inability to defeat disease highlights the problem, and I have the solution...