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 To indulge what may be just a bad [[metaphor]], it overlooks important medical functions such as, you know, ''diagnosing'' patients and then ''curing'' them.
 =====Painkillers=====
-Paracetamol has the appeal of being quick, generic needing no great expertise to prescribe or administer, and being at first pass, effective. This it shares with [[legaltech]], as long as by “first pass ” you mean “elevator pitch to the GC".
+Paracetamol has the appeal of being quick, generic, asking no great talent of those who prescribe or administer them, and being, at first blush, effective. This they share with [[legaltech]], if by “first blush” you mean “powerpoint pitch to GC".
-Painkillers work where what your patient suffers from is superficial, mysterious or terminal. If you  haven't looked, it is lazy, and liable only to compound the injury.
+Painkillers work best where what your patient suffers from is superficial, baffling or terminal. If you  haven't looked, it is lazy, and liable only to compound the injury.
 Of course, diagnosing is hard and — when your client is a sclerotic institution, forged over the ages through countless regretted mergers, siloed, recombined, spun out, reverse-merged and now sputtering asking with a consumptive wheeze, riven by turf wars, haunted by all this past catastrophe and silted up with poor practice, bad process and superfluous policy — treatment is harder. You too may be tempted to say “take two of these and call me in the morning”.