top 50 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] 133 points 8 months ago (8 children)

I worked at a hospital for 20 years... in IT, I wanna start scolding just reading this!

this gets more then just pharmacists excited!

  • source
  • hideshow 8 child comments
  • load more comments (1 reply)
    [–] 97 points 8 months ago (9 children)

    One of the best ways to get information out of people who are hoarding knowledge is to say something so blatantly false to them that they can't help but lecture you on why you're wrong.

  • source
  • hideshow 9 child comments
  • [–] 77 points 8 months ago (8 children)
  • [–] 54 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    Uhm actually, that is Cunningham's law after Howard Cunningham, developer of the first wiki!

    Murphy's law states that "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong" smhmh.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 6 child comments
  • load more comments (1 reply)
  • [–] 79 points 8 months ago (16 children)

    Or of they are a nurse, ask them which home remedy is best for burns: toothpaste or powder coffee?

  • source
  • hideshow 16 child comments
  • load more comments (3 replies)
    [–] 58 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    As a joke it’s perfect 😂 but also: please don’t actually do this—finishing antibiotics as prescribed (or calling your doc if you’re having side effects) is the real pro tip.

  • source
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • [–] 16 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Recent research has found that the recommended length of a course of antibiotics is basically just a guess and doesn't have any hard science backing it.

    I've even seen research that suggests that not finishing the full course if you feel better helps prevent resistant bacteria from taking over (because the antibiotics are killing the bacteria that are outcompeting them).

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 47 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    If you're ever lost in a forest, and you want to be rescued, just start building a house. Someone will magically appear to ask if you have a building permit.

  • source
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • load more comments (2 replies)
    [–] 27 points 8 months ago (35 children)

    We need one of these for every field.

  • source
  • hideshow 35 child comments
  • [–] 20 points 8 months ago* (11 children)

    I bet optometrists have opinions about people who have bad enough vision that it causes them daily problems that they complain about regularly, but don't want to wear glasses for vanity reasons.

    contacts exist, but y'know ...understandably many people don't want to use them either - as someone who wore contacts daily for a couple of years, learning to put in contacts was kinda similar to learning to deepthroat.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 11 child comments
  • [–] 19 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Saving for

    learning to put in contacts was kinda similar to learning to deepthroat

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • load more comments (8 replies)
  • [–] 18 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    i wonder if hearing people talk about radiation as though it's an infection that can spread from person to person makes other nuclear enthusiasts twitch as much as it makes me...

    or hearing someone imply that any nuclear reactor can explode in exactly the same manner that an atomic bomb does "by accident".

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 5 child comments
  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago* (4 children)

    talk about radiation as though it’s an infection that can spread from person to person

    It kind of does if you practice cannibalism!

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • load more comments (4 replies)
    [–] 25 points 8 months ago (28 children)

    I just had a thought, do they still put a shitload of antibiotics into animal feeds on factory farms? Doesn't that contribute to antibiotic resistance?

  • source
  • hideshow 28 child comments
  • load more comments (10 replies)
    [–] 20 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Course lengths for antibiotics isn't well studied. From this article:

    In fact, the optimal length of treatment in many common infections is not well studied and may be more than a little arbitrary. One infectious diseases doctor has suggested, somewhat satirically, that most of our current rules for antibiotic administration have more to do with the number of days in the week than they do with robust scientific evidence.

    We have a growing and, frankly, terrifying issue of antibiotic resistant bacteria from over prescribing and longer than necessary courses.

  • source
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • load more comments (3 replies)
    [–] 12 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    This is exactly the same as saying to a software developer: "I was going to ask you to write me some software to do this, but I'll just get AI to do it instead"

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • load more comments (1 reply)
    [–] 12 points 8 months ago (8 children)
  • load more comments (2 replies)
    [–] 11 points 8 months ago* (18 children)

    So why do you have to take the full thing of antibiotics? It has never been explained to me

  • source
  • hideshow 18 child comments
  • [–] 33 points 8 months ago

    As I understand it, just cause you feel better it doesn't mean the bacteria is fully gone. If you stop taking them before that point the surviving bacteria (which were more resistant) will start multiplying again and you'll need more/stronger antibiotics at that point

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 27 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Its because there might be a few bacteria left if you dont eat all the antibiotics

    And those survivors might evolve and get resistant to antibiotics

    Better to kill them all, leaving no survivors

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 21 points 8 months ago

    Let's not forget to mention that these resistant bacteria start to spread, making antibiotics less and less useful over time, for everyone.

    We're already at a place where antimicrobial resistance has become a huge issue, rendering treatments with antibiotics useless in many cases.

    https://www.who.int/news/item/13-10-2025-who-warns-of-widespread-resistance-to-common-antibiotics-worldwide

    If you ever suffered through a bacterial infection and remember how you felt once the antibiotics finally kicked in, and the prolonged suffering resistances would cause, or ever watched a loved one in a hospital die from a bacterial infection just because the were in a weakened state and the stem they caught was already resistant, you'll understand why that sucks so much as it does.

  • source
  • parent
  • load more comments (1 reply)
  • [–] 14 points 8 months ago* (9 children)

    "feeling better" is our physiological response to the medication working, not an indication of whatever you're sick with being out of your system. you could feel better but have bacteria remaining in small amounts not making you experience symptoms but then they begin proliferating. eventually, you'll feel sick again. take the entire regimen as recommended. it's only "recommended" because they can't make you do it, but really, you have to do it. that's how it's effective.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 9 child comments
  • load more comments (9 replies)
  • load more comments (4 replies)
    [–] 10 points 8 months ago

    Works great with your local autistic friend too, or anyone with any semblance of common sense

  • source
  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago

    "👍"

    "Oof. I wonder what I did to piss them off?"

  • source
  • load more comments
    view more: next ›