Vitamins and painkillers: Difference between revisions

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(Created page with "{{a|shitmaxim|}}The theory goes, so say any number of thought-pieces, that there are three kinds of business: {{l1}} '''Painkillers''': Those who address acute immediate problems<li> '''Vitamins''': Those prevent future problems in the long term: <li> '''Candy''': Those that distract us from our daily existential horror of what the doctor is about to do to us. This seems to us to miss some important categories of medicinal function. Such as curing pr...")
 
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'''Painkillers''': Those who address acute immediate problems<li>
'''Painkillers''': Those who address acute immediate problems<li>
'''Vitamins''': Those prevent future problems in the long term: <li>
'''Vitamins''': Those prevent future problems in the long term: <li>
'''Candy''': Those that distract us from our daily existential horror of what the doctor is about to do to us.
'''Candy''': Those that distract us from our daily existential horror of what the doctor is about to do to us.</ol>


This seems to us to miss some important categories of medicinal function.  Such as curing problems, or taking steps to live our lives to avoid needing palliatives, quack fixes and misdirections in the first place.
This seems to us to miss some important categories of medicinal function.  Such as curing problems, or taking steps to live our lives to avoid needing palliatives, quack fixes and misdirections in the first place.