- Quincy revisits old friends and travels to Washington DC in an effort to get the Orphan Drug act passed, and help a young mother suffering from myoclonus.
- When David Bowman, a 21-year old living in a convalescent home, is found with a gunshot wound in the back of his head, the police suspect murder. But, Quincy finds GSR on David's hands, consistent with suicide. Quincy's old friends, Dr. Ciotti and his son, Tony, (the father and the young man suffering with Tourette's Syndrome from an earlier episode) visit Quincy. Tony was good friends with David and Tony is certain he committed suicide. The reason for David's suicide is he was suddenly deprived of L5-HTP, the orphan experimental drug, which, for the first time since age 15, was allowing David to live a normal life, with a job, a girlfriend and his writing. But, Dr. Styer, his physician, was forced to stop giving his patients L5-HTP because production on the drug stopped. It is not profitable for pharmaceutical companies to test, manufacture and keep statistics on post-production side effects on drugs used by only a small percentage of the population. These companies are, as they claim, run as businesses. Another patient of Dr. Styer, a young mother and wife, Kitty Marinoff, regresses and checks into a nursing home when she cannot take L5-HTP. Quincy joins Ciotti and Styer in the quest to push passage of the Orphan Drug Bill, i.e., more law and regulation and a short-term solution, instead of forming a consortium of physicians to raise funds, produce, test and monitor this and other "orphan" drugs on their own.—LA-Lawyer
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