• Question: what is the best medican?

    Asked by year490tar on 1 Jul 2023.
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      Blair Johnston answered on 1 Jul 2023:

      Laughter (I don’t think there is a best medicine really)

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      Bruno Silvester Lopes answered on 1 Jul 2023: last edited 2 Jul 2023 8:30 pm

      Carbapenem group of drugs are the best medicines to treat bacterial infections as they are relatively non toxic. This is the one we also call as last resort medicine as we don’t have a lot of drugs left to fight infections. Thank you

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      Cheryl Williams answered on 2 Jul 2023:

      The best medicine is the one that is most suited to the condition you are treating.
      If you have a bacterial infection, antibiotics would be the best medicine to cure it.
      If you have a cold, paracetamol won’t cure it but it would be the best medicine to help you feel better.
      Chemotherapy is the best medicine to treat cancer.

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      Fran Biggin answered on 2 Jul 2023:

      The best medicine depends on what you are trying to treat. There are many different illnesses which respond to different medicines.

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      Simon Anderson answered on 2 Jul 2023:

      In a lot of ways, linking to previous answers, the best medicine is having well trained professionals, of having all the brilliant scientists such as those you are talking to that;

      -help discover and develop the medicines described (antibiotics, chemo, etc)
      -provide the information to make sure the right treatments are used
      -select the correct medicine for the disease found
      -help to look after, and monitor, whilst the medicine is used.

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      Caroline Addey answered on 3 Jul 2023:

      The best medicine – this will depend on what is wrong with a patient, and your Doctor will decide this based on their experience, knowledge and guidance provided by experts.

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      Sophie Shaw answered on 3 Jul 2023:

      As everyone has said, the best medicine will be dependent on the illness or condition! Even then, people all respond differently to medicine, and this can be due to the person’s DNA. Where I work, we sequence the DNA of patients to make sure that certain types of chemotherapy will work effectively and safely for them.

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      Kip Heath answered on 4 Jul 2023:

      Along with others – it changes dependent on the condition.

      But across all conditions I would say communication. Good communication between healthcare staff and patients is the most important part of healthcare.

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      Hannah Scholes answered on 5 Jul 2023:

      It really depends on what you need the medicine for. Different medicines work best for different things.

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      Chigozie Onuba answered on 9 Jul 2023:

      It depends on the condition or illness you are trying to treat.

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      Dan Brunsdon answered on 10 Jul 2023:

      If there’s one thing that was drilled into me from a young age it was that regardless of the medicine a spoonful of sugar will always help it go down

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      Clare Morrow answered on 11 Jul 2023:

      I would say laughter, however the best medicine is probably the one that helps a patient get better without any side effects.

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