I like how physics chucks in quantum mechanics into chemistry and tells it who is the boss. Then chemistry tries to explain it but stutters , so now we have to refer to physics for further information.
Random person: well this medication you’re taking is just treating the SYMPTOMS of your disease, it’s not actually helping you
Me, internally screaming: I have a CHRONIC illness. THERE IS NO CURE. I will take what I can get.
How is treating symptoms NOT helpful?!?
Seriously. Because pain pills aren’t going to heal your broken bone, but they sure as heck make it easier to deal with it. Half of medicine is treating symptoms. Which is obviously not the only goal of medicine, but when there is no way to treat the underlying cause, it is becomes the goal. And even if there is a way to treat the cause (as in the broken bone above mentioned), symptom management is still important. And helpful. And in chronic illness, it makes the difference between being unable to live and being able to function.
Until we find cures for chronic illness, and they become free and accessible, people who bash symptomatic treatment can catch these (chronic pain ridden) hands.
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