Next month, your morning pills come in exactly the same bottle as your evening pills did last month. Good luck if you're elderly, sleep-deprived, or simply distracted.
Why aren't most prescriptions packaged by the manufacturer? A clearly labeled box and blister packs would make it obvious whether you're taking the right medication and whether you've already taken today's dose.
We pay premium prices for the drugs but apparently discount prices for the packaging.
And then there's the pharmacy symbol. Is it the Rod of Asclepius, the single serpent of healing? Or the Caduceus, the twin serpents of Hermes, the god of merchants?
American medicine seems unable to decide.
Moses and the bronze serpent, Numbers 21:8-9
