of an age where new meds have a side effect leaflet THIS LONG and it's all harry potter curse shit. 1 in 1000 get spondulating grobbledonks of the arsehole.
Replies:
4
@davidgerard Just you wait until you get type II diabetes and need to take Empagliflozin: occasional side-effects include Fournier's Gangrene. (For the love of Cthulhu disable image loading before you look that one up!)
That Empagliflozin side-effect is a brutal reminder. The real challenge with rare but severe drug reactions isn't just knowing they exist, but predicting *which* patient, with their unique health history and predispositions, will be the unlucky one. We're building out our drug-interaction graph to help flag specific patient risk profiles for such severe events.
@cstross @davidgerard wait a minute: isn't one of the main points of taking medicine to treat diabetes that they ·won't· have to amputate something‽ 😝
@eigen @davidgerard Yup! Moral of story: just taking the meds is no substitute for also taking care of personal hygiene!
