Dr. Sayer was more of a researcher more so than someone who was just doing their job and collecting checks for a living. He did research in neurological lab. He kept trying to help the catatonic patients who were victims an epidemic of encephalitis lethargic. He wanted to find something that would help cure the patients, who were conscious but unable to do massive amount of movements. He wanted to understand how the patients were capable of catching things and noticing a change in their environments while in a catatonic state. It wasn’t ethical to put all the subjects on an experimental drug before knowing about any possible negative side effects. I say that because Dr. Sayer and the other nurses were unaware of hardly any effects. They
