Friday, October 23, 2015

[rhtwzhpz] Learning medicine

With so many Americans on some daily pill regimen, consider using each person's pharmaceuticals as an education hook to teach him or her chemistry, biology, biochemistry.

However, I suspect the mechanism of a great many drugs are not fully understood: "we don't know exactly why this drug works; we tried combinatorial chemistry and this one worked the best."

Active learning is possible but potentially very dangerous: drug interactions, overdosing, underdosing.

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