Thomas freaks out.

As I continued reading Godplayer, new developments both in the relationship of Thomas and Cassi, and in the medical scandal occurred:

After an evening of drama and worry, Cassi decides to confirm her suspicions of Thomas’ drug abuse. So, the next morning, after Thomas leaves for work, Cassi enters his study and takes a look around. The medicine cabinet is clean, but she finds an orange pill on the floor, one Thomas had dropped that very morning. Cassi found the pill to be Dexedrine, potentially harmless but easily abused. Though she tries to convince herself that its nothing to worry about, Cassi then goes to Patricia, Thomas’ mother, to talk about an intervention.
At the hospital, Thomas and George give their grand rounds. Much to Thomas’ distaste, George presents a cardiac case in which the patient has AIDS. This is an outrage to Thomas because it is another OR bed being taken by a patient who will most likely die, while Thomas has a line of people who are perfectly healthy aside from their cardiac condition requiring surgery.

Thomas freaks out.

After grand rounds, Thomas confronts George about this, and almost beats him up he’s so angry. Leftover from the drinking an pills the night before, Thomas’ headache gets worse and has to leave…after he leaves, however, George and Ballantine have a secret conversation…something about George noticing Thomas’ strange behavior lately…they then wonder if Thomas suspects anything…

hmm…