if your doctor tells you to take benadryl then they obviously mean diphenhydramine. if your doctor tells you to take tylenol, they obviously mean acetaminophen.
are you not from the US and then moved here or something? I agree it’s a weird facet of our culture that we refer to drugs with corpo brand names but it isn’t nearly as confusing as you’re making it out to be rn, tho.
people in the US historically are dumb and uneducated. the doctors got into a habit of just telling people “go take some tylenol” bc it’s what you’d see in the store. the box says tylenol in big letters, not acetaminophen… it’s for that simple reason, really.
the big pharma companies here know this cultural practice though and their packages are designed accordingly, for the most part. you’re virtually never going to see a drug that’s not acetaminophen packaged in a container with the tylenol brand strewn across it.
generally disagree with a lot of the assertions you wrote, but also irrelevant. ultimately when it comes to my (or anyone’s) health i want precision and specificity i don’t want corporate names/logos from a lazy idiot doctor.
i haven’t much really asserted anything here it was more just an objective take on how american english and our pharamaceutical culture work. i concur it’s obtuse in many respects but that is how it works here, it wasn’t really an agree/disagree thing… unless you are trying to say american english doesn’t work like this and everyone doesn’t get along knowing what each other means just fine. i don’t think that’s the case bc you start talking about values after, which like. idk what to say man, i agree it’d be better if everyone was more precise in their communication. communication sciences are really complicated and that isn’t really a simple problem to solve in the abstract like that, tho.
i don’t think doctors are idiots moreso they’re profit-motivated and exist in a system that is inherently hostile to the patient. imo that’s worse than being an idiotic bc i’m of the opinion that pretty much every doctor and nurse involved in the american healthcare system is breaking their hippocratic oath by working in the exploitive system they do, in part explicitly bc of shit like this, but that’s another deal entirely.
if your doctor tells you to take benadryl then they obviously mean diphenhydramine. if your doctor tells you to take tylenol, they obviously mean acetaminophen.
are you not from the US and then moved here or something? I agree it’s a weird facet of our culture that we refer to drugs with corpo brand names but it isn’t nearly as confusing as you’re making it out to be rn, tho.
people in the US historically are dumb and uneducated. the doctors got into a habit of just telling people “go take some tylenol” bc it’s what you’d see in the store. the box says tylenol in big letters, not acetaminophen… it’s for that simple reason, really.
the big pharma companies here know this cultural practice though and their packages are designed accordingly, for the most part. you’re virtually never going to see a drug that’s not acetaminophen packaged in a container with the tylenol brand strewn across it.
generally disagree with a lot of the assertions you wrote, but also irrelevant. ultimately when it comes to my (or anyone’s) health i want precision and specificity i don’t want corporate names/logos from a lazy idiot doctor.
i haven’t much really asserted anything here it was more just an objective take on how american english and our pharamaceutical culture work. i concur it’s obtuse in many respects but that is how it works here, it wasn’t really an agree/disagree thing… unless you are trying to say american english doesn’t work like this and everyone doesn’t get along knowing what each other means just fine. i don’t think that’s the case bc you start talking about values after, which like. idk what to say man, i agree it’d be better if everyone was more precise in their communication. communication sciences are really complicated and that isn’t really a simple problem to solve in the abstract like that, tho.
i don’t think doctors are idiots moreso they’re profit-motivated and exist in a system that is inherently hostile to the patient. imo that’s worse than being an idiotic bc i’m of the opinion that pretty much every doctor and nurse involved in the american healthcare system is breaking their hippocratic oath by working in the exploitive system they do, in part explicitly bc of shit like this, but that’s another deal entirely.