Fogginess

Therapeutics is foggy -- I get it. Some people treat disease X with drug Y, and then there's always a squirrelly bastard with a vial full of St. John's Wort. But given that therapeutics is so goddamn foggy, we're now going to encounter a dilemma on our final: we're going to need to know who wrote the question in order to be able to answer it. Why? Because some folks use evidence-based medicine (don't we have a class on this taught by someone who looks like 3 of the 4 members of a certain 80's band) in making decisions, and some other people (who make a living shooting drugs up booger-holes) justify therapy based on if the therapy looks like it could have appeared on the set of Star Trek.

But fine, whatever. Not only do we have disagreements within our course between the professors, but we also have disagreements with our profs and one of the most accepted pharmacotherapy text in the world (see: running and osteoarthritis risk). Imagine that. Guess I should go back to memorizing how things work in every prof's parallel universe rather than how to treat things in mine. When I get my PharmD I'll be able to justify any goddamn treatment for any goddamn disease -- all my patients are just going to be little Rorschach tests.


I'm thinking "Milk Thistle" or "Echinacea"
But to make matters worse, if it isn't some class that actually matters and Mommy and Daddy can't agree, it's a class so far outside of the practice of pharmacy it doesn't belong the building. Case-in-point: I'm sitting in a lecture explaining where the electron goes in drug metabolism. Model A and B both have the same start and end points, but they each have different caveats to which electron goes where. Our COP can thumb their noses up at all of the other COPs that award the same degree in one year's less time, but it isn't hard to see how they do it. Cut an undergraduate psyche class masquerading as "Communications" over here, make the ridiculous three different chemistry classes into one single class over there, and cram the 4-week part of immuno that actually matters (read as: not the ones taught by Dr. Jipper) into one of the two semesters of physiology, and we're really cooking with gas.

A parting random thought: remember the half dozen empty rows between us and Dr. Richter at the "Bar Graphs and Dishonesty Seminar 2010"? Yeah, that's kind of like those fifteen feet at the zoo that separates you from the animals for your protection.

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