Star Trek: 10 Weirdest Medical Cases
9. Patient: 40-Year-Old Human Male
Case: Accidental Cordrazine Overdose with Associated Delirium
Emergency medicine is a complex discipline that requires a wide range of clinical skills to be deployed in often perilous situations. Given the sheer number of potentially catastrophic scenarios a starship may face, it is not unsurprising that even the most highly experienced professionals are subject to a medical mishap from time to time.
Time was precisely the problem for one Doctor-turned-patient in 2267. Whilst administering cordrazine via hypospray to an injured crewmember on the bridge of the USS Enterprise as it passed through temporal distortions, the Doctor-patient was jolted and fell on the hypospray. The remaining contents of cordrazine were then accidentally injected into the patient's bloodstream at one hundred times the standard dose of 'two drops,' according to the Captain's log.
The Starfleet Medical Reference Manual, familiar to all medical students, gives the side/toxic effects of cordrazine overdose as including increased blood pressure, tachycardia, anxiety, paranoia, death, and dry mouth. Indeed, the patient rapidly entered a delirious state, with paranoid delusions of "assassins" and "murderers". He managed to abscond from the ship and travel to the 1930s, from where/when he had to be rescued.