The good old days

[zayichik]

When I was little, I defined diseases by "what hurts", also known as "clinical symptoms". When I first heard of AIDS, a word more scary than any swear word (and spoken in a whisper), I asked my grandmother (the doctor) what hurts when you have AIDS. Her answer-everything hurts, a description so simplistic and yet so amazingly accurate. This lead me

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[anonymous]

syphilis

[tiradora]

it is scary to think that doctors really have no idea what's wrong with you. they just make the most typical guess at your symptoms and send you on your way (usually with penecillin or amoxicillin-IUP loooooves to pass that shit out). it makes me wonder that we don't all just die.

[zayichik]

Well, we DO all just die.