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I went into a house recently where the medicine cabinet looked like a storage unit for unwanted medical rubbish. There were at least half a dozen bottles of pills inside, some of them nearly empty. All of them were out of date and in two of the bottles the pills had turned brown and were crumbling away.
This may sound slightly familiar to you. If not, then some of the other contents might: there was an old tube of pile cream that looked nearly empty and a burst tube of steroid cream which had a funny-looking fungus growing over part of it. There were also several large bottles of medicine. One was nearly full of a red liquid and had a thick streak of dried, sugary fluid obscuring the label. Another bottle had settled out into two distinct layers - which stayed as two distinct layers even after a good shaking. Finally, there was a pair of rather rusty nail scissors and an old tin half full of slightly grubby sticking plasters.Teacher: Michael
Many articles taken from 'A word with the doctor', by Dr. John Windsor.
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