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Where trust in strangers in white coats gets literally bottled and handed to you.
means A place where trained professionals prepare and dispense medicines according to a prescription or for general health needs.
from From Greek 'pharmakon,' a wonderfully double-edged word meaning both 'remedy' and 'poison' (also 'spell' or 'charm'). That root gave Greek 'pharmakeia,' the practice of drug-use, which passed through Latin and French before settling into English as 'pharmacy.' The ambiguity baked into 'pharmakon' isn't a bug — ancient healers knew that the difference between cure and toxin was often just the dose.
- origin
- from greek pharmakon, meaning both cure and poison
- oldest job
- apothecaries existed before modern medicine itself
- hidden math
- most of the work is insurance paperwork, not pills
- placebo truth
- color and price change how well drugs seem to work