Saturday 2.30 pm: I am cooking my lunch at home in a lovely, short, cold and sunny afternoon. M. says that I have to be inventive in the kitchen, so let's be inventive! I will eat whatever it comes out of the oven.
In the meantime I am having a tasteful and divine appetizer. Between sip and sip of a glass of wine and a just-discovered song of Rebecca Ferguson it comes to my mind -don't know why, probably without reason- a couple of news I read in Metro this week (almost everything I read lately). Both pieces are related to pharmaceutical drugs.
The first one is this drug accepted and authorized now by the FDA -as far as I know- to mitigate the devastating effects on a binge drinking night. The combination, quite simple and homemade, was found by a girl in the morning following a "great" night of alcohol and in the midst of the most terrible hangover. She says that, however, her formula is not intended to encourage heavy drinking... Ok, whatever... . It follows, rather, heavy drinking. Let's just not stop saying that heavy drinking is something good as long as it happens once or twice a year... Otherwise, there is something just wrong about it.
The second piece is related to the lady who sadly and unexpectedly killed herself while taking a bath. Apparently she did not remove the patch of her medicine to palliate chronic neck and shoulder pains in the first place. The heat accelerated the rate of diffusion of the drug in the tissue to fatal levels. It is claimed that the leaflet of the drug contains a clear warning against the use of the patch in certain circumstances, like taking a bath. You always have the doubt whether the lady read that or not; whether knew that or not; whether did that on purpose or not, in a particularly dolorous day. However, my question is: did the doctor who prescribed the medicine sufficiently emphasized the avoidance of the patch during hot baths? Did the doctor say: "Dear Ms, please under no circumstances use this patch while taking a bath. Never, ever do that: it might have terrible consequences. You could die!"
That's what I am taking about.
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