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@r1qnn @waverleyswife ur dr ackroyd

he's the only competent doctor at this hellish institution full of crime and malpractice. he deserves a little tea break :))

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Edgar: You have always been jealous of me!

Ackroyd: Jealous of what?! Of your lack of responsibility? Your immaturity? Your total disregard for other people’s feelings?

Edgar: Uh, to name a few!

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I know I’m shouting into the void here, but given that I’m probably already best known (if, of course, known at all) as That Ackroyd Stan, I have to put this out there: Ackroyd is not jealous of Jonathan. It’s how I see everyone describe Ackroyd’s hostility and it is completely missing the point.

Given that you play as Jon, you see everyone and everything through his eyes, so it’s natural Jonathan’s judgement would influence our own perceptions of characters. However, Ackroyd is pretty darn overt about why he doesn’t like Jonathan, and it’s a little thing called consent to treatment.

Waverley believes Jon built his reputation on experimenting on patients who weren’t informed about what Jon intended to do to them. He straight-up tells us: "I only want you to admit you used [soldiers on the front] to improve your theories."

And maybe Ackroyd is wrong about this; canon is kind of murky on what Jonathan’s past achievements actually are and whether Jonathan did take advantage of patients. (Though it is interesting that Strickland reads Jonathan’s published work and comes away from it thinking nice, time to start giving my patients dangerous amounts of opium without telling them.)

But Ackroyd is very clear this is why he doesn’t trust Reid! He tells Jon his ethos: "[Patients] who trust us are not volunteering for experimentation, they're here to be healed." Jonathan responds to this by admonishing Ackroyd for not "pushing the boundaries of medical research," and then bam, your internal hint log states Ackroyd “disapproves modern medicine methods.”

This is extremely ironic because... Ackroyd is the forward-thinking one! Jon and those around them are doing exactly what doctors of the era did, which is namely: whatever the heck they want, to patients who don’t understand the potential consequences of treatments. You know what happens without informed medical consent? You get a government infecting you with syphilis against your will, and that’s just one example.

Ackroyd never actually tries to stop his colleagues from trying new things sensibly—the hint log even acknowledges he "will not use regulations" to smack Strickland down. He just doesn’t like it when doctors play God. Ackroyd is the most super cool and radical surgeon in Pembroke Hospital and I’ll die on this hill.

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