Lincoln Internal Medicine
Bitter pill: candy-coated and sometimes painfully graphic, images related to medicine and anatomy have gone viral.(MONOLOGUE)Busch, Akiko A friend of mine used to keep her cigarettes in a Band-Aid box. She lived by the ocean, and the little tin box prevented her Merits from getting damp and stale in the sea air. Of course, there was more to it than that. Certainly she appreciated the irony of storing these little agents of toxicity in a box meant to provide aid. And she suspected, I suppose, that there were times cigarettes conferred their own brand of help and comfort. Although there was nothing saccharine or sweet about it, the little white tin was feel-good packaging at its best; with its clinical, ...
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