I find one of the most incredible technological experiences is making a trip to Walgreen's. My mom had a neck-ache not to long ago and she asked me to get her some aspirin. So I headed over the pain medication section and looked for aspirin. There was no aspirin. There were about 500 different possible medications. gelcaps, tablets, caplets, liquids... is it a back-ache? There's special pain relievers just for back aches. Are there any other symptoms... maybe cough, cold, fever... allergies? Are there allergies? No just a neck-ache. Okay, so I found the closet thing to pain old aspirin which was buffered version of aspirin.
Then I thought, gizmos and gadgets. I love gizmos and gadgets. What gizmos and gadgets could I get to address this neck ache? So I could have got her a heating pad, but that wouldn't have been interesting. I went to the gizmo and gadget area of Walgreen's because now every drug store has them everywhere. I narrowed down my choices. I could get a disposable heating pad where you rip off a backing and then stick it in place and it provides heat right to the area for a number of hours OR a snake shaped object filled with sand that could be put in the microwave, heated up and then put on the problem. I got the snake.
Anyway the point is that the local drug store that used to just dole out a few over the counter medications and fill prescriptions now offers millions of choices. It's almost impossible to make a decision. Where is this all going? Will we eventually not need to go to the doctor at all? Will we all have portable heart defibrillators in our houses?
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