On medication names
typed for your pleasure on 13 May 2025, at 1.00 amSdtrk: ‘Title theme from Bombay talkie’ by Shankar Jaikishan
Pretty much all the medications out there have some unhinged super-chemical name, right? So why are the brand names just as alien? ‘The average person won’t remember the name Guanfacine, so let’s call it something normal like Intuniv’. Wait, what?
I know, I know, it’s brand names, it’s marketing, it’s annoying. Someone should make an online quiz, though: Medication Brand Name or Random Cluster of Syllables?
‘Ask your doctor about Rolopropophal® (quivexonine) today.’
STREET NAME: Hard carpet. Sure, why not.
Great, now Rolopropophal is in my phone’s autosuggestions
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