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Why can doctors be so incompetent?
- h2odragon 4y ago> Nowadays you'd have to be declared dead from the neck up to consider "Heroin Cough Syrup for Kids" a good idea, but a mere century ago, that was the shit 9 out of 10 doctors were recommending. I got prescribed "Hydrocodone cough syrup" for cystic fibrosis cough from age 13 until I wised up and stopped talking to doctors about it. This was ~30 years ago; I have little doubt they'd do the same today. For clarity, my choice is cough stuff up or drown on it. Doctors seem to prefer "drown quietly".
- amalgamated_inc 4y agoFriend of mine got told by doctors as a young girl to "toughen up" and "not make such a fuss about food." Turned out she had Celiac disease.
- cafard 4y agoUntil 50 years ago, one could purchase paregoric (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page) without a prescription. I got a spoonful or two many winters of my childhood.
- amalgamated_inc 4y agoDid you mean to link to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paregoric https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paregoric instead?