Struck Off

Genre: Medical Drama / Political Thriller  

Setting: Global medical institutions, hospitals, research centers, courtrooms
Time: Present day, following the events of 2002

Scene 1 – Moffitt Cancer Center, Florida (2002)

INT. RESEARCH LAB – DAY

Three professors in white coats—DR. SANDERS, DR. LEE, and DR. JENKINS—stand over a prostate cancer specimen.

DR. LEE
Eight watts. One megahertz. Just a minute of exposure... Look at this. The cancer’s structure—it’s rupturing.

DR. SANDERS
Not just rupturing. It’s being targeted as foreign by the immune system. This could work for all cancers.

DR. JENKINS
Let’s publish. Immediately. The world needs to know.

They exchange urgent, excited glances.

Scene 2 – Hospital in Manchester, UK (2003)

INT. GP CONFERENCE ROOM – EVENING

DR. ELLIOT, a passionate General Practitioner, addresses a group of colleagues holding the published Moffitt paper.

DR. ELLIOT
The ultrasound method isn’t just theory—it’s verified. Every cancer cell type. One minute of exposure. No chemo. No radiation.

DR. PATEL
Then why haven’t we heard more? If it’s true, prescribing chemo after this discovery... is malpractice.

Tension builds in the room. Murmurs spread. The reality is setting in.

Scene 3 – Global News Broadcast (2005)

INT. TV STUDIO – NIGHT

NEWS ANCHOR
Reports flood in from across the globe: Doctors allegedly withholding knowledge of a universal cancer cure have been deregistered. Legal systems worldwide are striking off practitioners who prescribe known-defective treatments.

Scene 4 – Medical Tribunal Courtroom (2010)

INT. COURTROOM – DAY

A DEFENSE ATTORNEY stands beside a trembling GP.

DEFENSE ATTORNEY
Your Honour, my client followed institutional guidelines. The fault lies in the systemic suppression of this groundbreaking ultrasound discovery.

JUDGE
Nevertheless, the law is clear. The prescription of knowingly defective medicine is a lifetime ban from medical practice.

The GP lowers their head. The courtroom gasps.

Scene 5 – Underground Medical Research Facility (2025)

INT. HIDDEN LAB – DIMLY LIT

A new generation of renegade doctors work tirelessly, reviving the ultrasound protocols.

YOUNG SCIENTIST
They silenced the cure, but we won’t be quiet. We owe it to the truth. And to every life unnecessarily lost.

FADE OUT

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