The Human Guinea Pig
Bill has at once the easiest and hardest job: the easy part is only working three hours a week going to the college medical laboratory to submit to experiments. the hard part is after being given untested shots or medications waiting to see whether he will become violently ill or die. Bill gingerly signs the medical releases absolving the laboratory of any blame should he die or become sick, to sleep, have violent tremors, vomit forcefully, or die. “ I’ m not a nine to five kind of guy,” he tells his ex-girlfriend Cindy after she became angry when he was given a strain of the Aids virus then a new serum to find out if it fights the infection. “ When your numbers up, its up. Who knows I could quit my job then get hit by a bus the next day?” he explains to Cindy, who coldly leaves their apartment after she delouses her clothes and refuses to kiss Bill goodbye. Bill’s relationships are shorter then most men given his profession and a sleep pattern of between twelve to fourteen hours a day. but he accepts this as one of the hazards of the job. “ Who knows, people may think of me as the next Jonas Salk,” a hundred years from now,” he tells skeptics. since Bill became a human guinea pig he also found religion and goes to church again---- when he has the time.
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