Prescribe and Pray

Here, medical accidents are legion, but fortunately, the dead don't talk. All that matters is profitability, and to achieve this, management is willing to throw you in at the deep end, as long as patients flock in large numbers.

As an amateur doctor with no experience or qualifications, you find yourself in France in 1999, immersed in a job that requires constant mental effort:

Checking, examining, diagnosing, and prescribing are all tasks that you will learn on the job, for better or for worse.

As the Director so aptly puts it: “You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.”

Every patient is a potential fraudster, you have been warned!

False name, expired card, no insurance? It is up to YOU, as a doctor and the last line of defense, to prevent undesirable individuals from accessing healthcare.

Management is watching you...

Put away your rudimentary tools—medicine is serious business!

Fortunately, management isn't leaving you defenseless. As a good 20th-century doctor at the cutting edge of medical technology, you'll have access to real diagnostic weapons made in France. Among others:

• Rechargeable battery flashlight (no less)

• A thermometer that beeps

• A stethoscope with a modular interface (don't ask me what that means)

• A sniffer for suspicious odors

• A portable pustule scanner

The right treatment for every patient.

With a range of illnesses, each more absurd than the last, you will need to identify the correct symptoms and make a diagnosis that will affect your paycheck no matter what happens.

Don't get it wrong, or you may find the unfortunate patient in the obituary section of the next day's newspaper.

Scheming, lies, bribes, and reprisals—who said being a doctor was an easy job?

When you joined the prestigious Last Breath Clinic, you shouldn't have expected an easy life. In addition to impatient patients and the complexity of the task as the days become increasingly challenging, you will have to face real dilemmas that could change your life... or end it, permanently.

It's up to you to make the right choices, juggle your various important contacts, and find the loopholes that will allow you to end your work in the best possible way.