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4000 years of medicine.

2000 BC: Here. Eat of this root. Cure it will you.

999 AD: The root is of the Devil. Stay away! Say this prayer instead. The gods cure you will receive.

1866 AD: Prayer is dungeon dung/superstition. Drink this fowl tasting potion. It will cure you.

1935 AD: Potion is snake oil! Swallow this pill instead. It will cure you. It it doesn’t we have 8 billion more pills that we haven’t made yet but will… eventually.

1975 AD: The pills are not working like we first thought they would in the mice, rats, cats, and dogs we tested them on. We’re sorry. :( Here; take this antibiotic that the salesman said to push down your collective throats. It will boast the lining in my pants pockets and has less side effects than our competitors. It will cure you.

2000 AD: The antibiotic has been found by the FDA to kill FDA agents in the field. We will be doubling your dosage.

2012 AD: The antibiotic is no longer available as it seems to work really well masking mad-cow disease in European and Chinese beef.
Here, eat this root instead.

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verge offline Verified User (1 year, 2 months) Long Term User Shouts: 134 #
An Unknown Location | 9 months, 2 weeks ago (19 minutes after post)

This is funny, but I think medicine has come a very long way. People rely on it to fix far too many of their problems, which ends up causing a lot more problems, but it can really help people if it’s used properly.

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President Awesome:3 offline Verified User (4 years, 4 months) Long Term User Shouts: 2 #
An Undisclosed Location | 9 months, 2 weeks ago (2 hours, 23 minutes after post)

this made me lol. xD

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♥ Fairytale ♥ offline Verified User (1 year, 8 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Undisclosed Location | 9 months, 2 weeks ago (4 hours, 46 minutes after post)

funny…everything is similar to medicine history!!!

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An Unknown Location | 9 months, 2 weeks ago (9 hours, 7 minutes after post)

The only thing that has been consistent in medical history is that medicines are derived from plants and the Hippocratic oath. America has one of the worst healthcare standards in the developed world. They do not even rank in the top 10 healthiest countries list (a list which includes the likes of Japan, Sweden, France, Denmark and Australia etc).

Medicine is incredibly effective and this is demonstrated in the massive increase in the average human lifespan. 2000 BC it was about 18 years. Now it is 66 years (on average worldwide).

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Spokane, WA, US | 9 months, 2 weeks ago (12 hours, 1 minute after post)

Too true to be funny, unfortunately.

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An Unknown Location | 9 months, 2 weeks ago (13 hours, 9 minutes after post)

If one has money one can buy Pills and Potions, however they probably won’t work and have some bad side affects!
The worst of all the side effects is they will make one poorer and the drug companies BILLIONS.

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An Unknown Location | 9 months, 2 weeks ago (1 day, 5 hours after post)

Thanks for the monday mornin g laugh :)

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An Unknown Location | 9 months, 2 weeks ago (1 day, 10 hours after post)

the pharmaceutical industry *is* messed up, but its not the same thing as the science or medical science industry.

in regards to your antibiotic… was there something recent that happened?

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An Unknown Location | 9 months, 2 weeks ago (3 days, 7 hours after post)

U said if im not gunna help u then ta take u off?…

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An Unknown Location | 9 months, 1 week ago (1 week, 4 days after post)

Likes!

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