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“I am a doctor, but I did not prescribe this one — I had plantar warts and was prescribed a chemical compound called ‘Cantharidin,’ which is quite literally blister beetle juice. It melted off layers of tissue to kill the wart at the root. I oftentimes enjoy envisioning blister beetle farmers raising fields of blister beetles and then squishing them with rubber boots like you would grapes for wine. Anyways, in my free time, I prescribe and perform ECT procedures.”
“Some interesting (maybe not too rare) drugs I’ve used in my practice are Marinol for nausea (synthetic THC), Nudexta (which is essentially DXM and Quinidine for pseudobulbar affect, which can be seen as uncontrollable laughing and/or crying), and old-school typical antipsychotics such as droperidol and perphenazine.”