Tuesday, October 30, 2018

The Best New Drugs


Every year at one conference or another, a presenter will regale us regarding the use of Wonder drug Z, and all the other great stuff in the cue. Some of those drugs disappear, never to be listed, because the side effects began to show up after 300,000 people had been tested against placebo. Maybe their toes began to fall off, or there were too many folks dying from long thumb disease, or whatnot.

The Best New Drugs

Death eliminates all risk
LDL reduction is very brisk,
Approaching zero, as the heart stops beating
After that, no worries about eating.

Sodium reduction has a lot of hype
Not sodium sensitive? you're not the type,
Regarding all that worry, about retaining fluids
No need to join the low sodium Druids.

Sodium-glucose Cotransporter-2 Inhibitors
If you can say that, you're clearly an exhibitor,
But they never talk about
Those incidental amputations,
Or how Fournier's gangrene
Can ruin a reputation.

Beware, dear public
About the newest, latest drugs,
Testing on rabbits, rats and pigs
May not eliminate all the bugs,
Lurking in the background
Glossed over by slick advertising,
If you should get Angioedema
Death may be very surprising.

10/30/18

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