Sci-fi, but not at all

This post is about the ideas of science fiction and how they are not only useful for the sequences of plot action (ie, blowing up space stations and fighting with your father under black metal); they can actually be used in a Michael Crichton sort of way to bring the drama to a whole new level!

Imagine the normal drama.  It takes place in a usually ambient setting giving the character's emotions and choices more life.  Sci-fi films are usually much grander in scale, giving them their essence and mystery, what the world would be like someday in the future.

Somehow science got tangled up into technology.  Weapons and ships and crazy creatures came to be synonymous with sci-fi.  I wonder what people think of making a sci-fi film that was parallel in its structure to ER.  What if you saw a film set in a hospital 4000 years from now?  What similarities and differences about mankind's challenges today can we learn about in watching people fight their battles 4000 years from now?

I would lay the foundation as one of human beings evolutionary decay.  Perhaps the battlefield will be the human immune system or our DNA due to our over-consumption of GMO foods and environmental destruction.

Is there universal health care?  What does it look like?  Is it fraudulent?

Are hospitals of the future providing services such as artificial insemination with or without appointment?

Do these hospitals have botanical gardens of rapidly evolving plant life, thus stimulating the DNA and immunity of the patients?

All sorts of interesting thing can be painted from science fiction ideas.  They don't have to be super-galactic!

Instead of allowing the science of sci-fi turn the volume up on the action and the louder pieces of technology in its imagined society...what if science turned up the drama?