"The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it." Orwell
"“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
Plato
"The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant" Robespierre
Friday, December 19, 2014
Best Idea Ever, And It's Mine
As I was watching a commercial for some drug or other (don't get me smarted), as the list of possible adverse occurrences was run off at hyperspeed while images of happiness flowed by happily, I thought of the perfect drug. It's for hypochondriacs. It only has side effects.
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I've been a science fiction fan for decades. Not long before his death, I got to meet one of my favorite writers -- Ted Sturgeon. When he discovered I was a physician, he told me that he had had a revelation. "Drugs," he told me, "don't have side effects." "Umm" I replied. "Drugs, " he went on, "have effects. Sometimes you like the effects; sometimes you DON'T like the effects."
ReplyDeleteAnd sometimes, I later learned, one patient's "side effect" is another's *primary* effect…
By golly, I think he was right. (He was a favorite of mine, too.)
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