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.
Life pro tip for friends of pharmacists
Submitted 1 day ago by ickplant@lemmy.world to science_memes@mander.xyz
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JuliaSuraez@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Bubs12@lemmy.cafe 18 hours ago
Looks like we found the pharmacist.
RiceMunk@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
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.
peppy@lemmy.ml 22 hours ago
ah yes. Murphy’s law.
Ethanol@pawb.social 21 hours ago
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.
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 20 hours ago
ಠ_ಠ
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
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.
slazer2au@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
In telecoma version is take a fibre optic cable with you and burry it. A backhoe will promptly arrive to dig it up.
Anarch157a@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 hours ago
If you’re in the desert, start mixing a Dry Martini, an Englishman will appear to tell your recipe is wrong and his is the correct one.
acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 day ago
Or of they are a nurse, ask them which home remedy is best for burns: toothpaste or powder coffee?
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 1 day ago
Vaseline
PaintedSnail@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Get fancy and use Vicks
jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Yellow Mustard.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Habanero juice mixed with vicks.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 day ago
tell them to put a whole onion in their sock and call it a day
Canonical_Warlock@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 hours ago
Tiger balm.
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Butter
ODuffer@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Just tell them the joke was weak, and move on with your life.
deacon@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Grapefruit poultice
TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
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.
Bronstein_Tardigrade@lemmygrad.ml 6 hours ago
Better yet, tell them you were taking antibiotics for a “viral” infection, like a cold.
joe_archer@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
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”
humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
“I used to do programming when you could put code on your MySpace page”
bearboiblake@pawb.social 22 hours ago
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?
Sniatch@feddit.org 16 hours ago
Just another good reason to not eat animals
titanicx@lemmy.zip 14 hours ago
Don’t look at what being used to fertilize your fruits and vegetables. Don’t look at what being sprayed on any of those fruits and vegetables. Don’t look at any of the other pieces of the food chain.
TheBlackLounge@lemmy.zip 21 hours ago
We still give them shitloads yeah, but it’s complicated. Changes have been made globally. There’s basically no risk to us. The antibiotics don’t get into our food, and the superbugs that might breed aren’t viable in humans. Wild animals still pose more risk.
Ephera@lemmy.ml 17 hours ago
and the superbugs that might breed aren’t viable in humans.
But diseases jump from non-humans to humans all the time?
At least, Wikipedia chooses to spell out the sentence “Most human diseases originated in non-humans” and lists a who’s who of pandemics as such: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZoonosisOr do you mean something different?
Ephera@lemmy.ml 17 hours ago
Yeah, from what I understand, countries try to regulate the use of antibiotics, so that we don’t blow the most potent ones, a.k.a. new ones, right away. But on some level, we’re reliant on regularly discovering new antibiotics, which isn’t great.
tetris11@feddit.uk 18 hours ago
oh my man/lass, next time you buy a tangerine have a look at the label on what they put on the skin
titanicx@lemmy.zip 14 hours ago
They also have to remember that doesn’t count what gets put in the ground to fertilize that plant to make it grow.
AlboTheGuy@feddit.nl 13 hours ago
Works great with your local autistic friend too, or anyone with any semblance of common sense
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 1 day ago
We need one of these for every field.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 1 day ago
I bet optometrists have opinions about people who have less-than-ideal vision 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.
janja@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Saving for
learning to put in contacts was kinda similar to learning to deepthroat
ickplant@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
learning to put in contacts was kinda similar to learning to deepthroat.
I’m 💀.
I think contacts are harder though cause I still can’t put them in.
Furbag@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Got any deepthroating tips? Asking for a friend…
Draegur@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
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”.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 1 day ago
talk about radiation as though it’s an infection that can spread from person to person
It does if you practice cannibalism!
pivot_root@lemmy.world 1 day ago
“OK, I unplugged the computer. … No, I still hear the fans. … What? You mean the footrest? Why would I unplug that?”
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
"I would try Linux, but I’m not some command-line hacker type. I like a nice GUI and Linux just can’t compete with the big guys on that front with all the “packages” or whatever bloating up your knock-off OS.
djmikeale@feddit.dk 1 day ago
Here’s my 50 CSV files for you to create a powerbi report on top of.
As well as
How do I export the data from my report to CSV?
slappyfuck@lemmy.ca 21 hours ago
Don’t you dare!
josephc@lemmy.ml 17 hours ago
I know you asked for CSV but it wasn’t showing up right so I saved it as PDF. Can I send that to you?
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Sends it by taking a photo of the screen, which displays part of the PDF and some questional browser tabs are clearly visible in the photo.
Sludgeyy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Plumber “hot water heater”
Accountant “.02 cents”
Atomic@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
Just apply some casual emotional manipulation by suggesting self harm and watch the other person trying to ensure you don’t harm yourself.
Is exactly what “Jessica Fletcher” is suggesting. Please don’t…
Zamboni_Driver@lemmy.ca 16 hours ago
That not self harm… Stopping anti biotics early can inrease the chance of creating antibiotic resistant bacteria which affect everyone on earth.
You completely missed the point of why a pharmacist would care about this and attributed malice where there is none.
Atomic@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
What you just said, is that stopping the treatment early is detrimental to the human race. Did you perhaps mean the opposite?
Otherwise I’m not sure why you’re trying to argue with me that one should fulfill their treatment plan. I already agree.
I’m not attributing malice. I’m calling it for what it is. Emotional manipulation, intentional or not is beyond the point.
shrugs@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Let me ruffle all your feathers: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6736742/
Dekkia@this.doesnotcut.it 1 day ago
Where in that document does it say that patients should decide on their own to stop taking antibiotics because they “feel better now”?
This is something one can bring up with the doctor who prescribed it, but not a decision to make on feelings.
shrugs@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Where in my post did I say that patients should decide on their own to stop taking medication?
I tried to share some information, that show nothing is black and white and only because someone believes to know something, that can still be wrong.
Heavybell@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
That is interesting. But a consideration for the doctor, not the layperson. Everyday people should still take the full course prescribed and hope their physician has prescribed the right dose.
shrugs@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
You are absolutely right. People should trust their doctors, but doctors should also update their knowledge.
LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Well that was unexpectedly interesting.
Thank you for sharing.
philpo@feddit.org 11 hours ago
And the infectiologist and the microbiologist will then scold the pharmacist and here you go, you started a bar fight.
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
So why do you have to take rhe full thing of antibiotics? It has never been explained to me
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 23 hours ago
If you have any friend who is ignoring you, you don’t have a friend.
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 1 day ago
“👍”
“Oof. I wonder what I did to piss them off?”
5oap10116@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If you have a friend who’s
a pharmacistnot a dipshitvictorz@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Jessica Fletcher eh. 🕵️♂️
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 1 day ago
My blood is boiling
thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 1 day ago
I worked at a hospital for 20 years… in IT, I wanna start scolding just reading this!
this gets more then just pharmacists excited!
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Fr! Not even pharmacist, just anyone with a passive knowledge of germ theory!
Landless2029@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
My elderly parents showing me clearly AI videos of a $30 robot puppy…
I couldn’t convince them it was AI. I tried to explain CGI with shit like Pixar and Disney movies but it didn’t work. NICOO puppy
That shit should be illegal.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
They must have known that CGI in Pixar and Disney movies is very different from an AI-generated video and concluded that you had no idea what you were talking about based on that inaccuracy.
tetris11@feddit.uk 18 hours ago
Hi there, I work in a small lab just upstairs and was wondering if it’s okay if I spoof a few MAC addresses to get wired internet and then use my personal VPN to torrent a few GB’s of films and games? I’m sure you understand
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
I mean, a few GB would probably be done in a few seconds, so no big deal, just don’t seed past 1.5. The VPN actually makes it easier on the routers if there’s any NAT going on because the VPN handles managing the individual connection forwarding table.
Now if you said a few TB, that might be an issue.
fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
Haha! Yeah, I’m just a GP’s son and even I wouldn’t resist the urge on that one!