"I was in hospital once and about to be put under sedation. I casually asked how anesthesia works, to which the anesthetist replied, 'We don't actually know.'"

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"It's so frustrating, my second kid went off like an air raid siren at 9:30 at night and wailed until 3 or 4 a.m. From six weeks until just after her first birthday. It was HELL. Every doctor we talked to gave us the professional equivalent of a shrug. Then one day, silence...happy, sunny kid. Slept through the night, barely even fussed about anything. We walked around like she was an unstable land mine for months, and it just never came back...creepy."

"Maybe you have lupus, maybe you have arthritis? Can't be sure, so take this malaria drug about it and let me know if you get mouth sores, your liver swells up, or it does nothing for no reason. Could be the meds, could be a flair. Either way, it's going to affect parts of your body you never knew interacted. How is your relationship with gluten and dairy, because it's about to get weird. Which came first, the depression or the inflammation? No idea, but here's another four pills about it. You're hypermobile, ever heard of Ehlers-Danlos or POTS? Similar but different, but who knows...why did you come in again? Fatigue."

"This one has always intrigued me. Perhaps one of the most commonly used medications, and we don't know how it does what it does."

"Endometriosis? Take that shit out. Oh, that didn't solve the problem? Shrug, it's a mystery. Autoimmune diseases? Shrug, it's a mystery. Here's some pills for the rest of your life. Debilitating period pain? Mystery. IUD insertion? Weird, there are no nerve endings there. Whatever, we'll just clamp this motherfucker down while we insert this thing."

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