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Suppositories: The pills you put in your butt
Paperback
Series: Rejected Children's Books (Funny Books for Adults), Book 42
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 5 2020
Pages: 26
Weight: 0.19
Height: 0.07 Width: 8.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Sometimes you're sick and you can't swallow a pill. Or the pill works faster the other way. Or the pharmacist has prescribed something in a format that requires a conversation nobody in the pharmacy line was prepared for. This book explains suppositories. It explains what they are, how they work, where they go, and the specific emotional journey from prescription to administration that the pharmaceutical industry has never addressed with illustrated cartoon art until now. The suppository is real. The application is real. The cartoon art makes it educational. Arguably.
This adult parody book takes a real medical topic... one that is handled with extreme diplomatic indirection by every other piece of content in the healthcare space... and addresses it with the direct honesty of an illustrated guide that decided the subject deserved proper documentation. The suppository has been undersold. The suppository is effective. The suppository's route of administration has been avoided in polite conversation for decades and this book declines to continue that avoidance. The pill goes in the butt. The book explains why this is sometimes the correct pharmaceutical decision.
This Book IS For:- Anyone who has been handed a suppository prescription and experienced the specific moment of understanding what that means
- Fans of educational content that covers real topics with the directness that the topics deserve and most content avoids
- Healthcare professionals who navigate suppository conversations regularly and would appreciate the illustrated guide for comparison
- Gift-givers who want to give something that is technically educational and practically hilarious
- People who are currently managing a suppository situation and do not find the timing appropriate for a companion book
- Pharmacists who feel the suppository deserves a more clinical explanation than cartoon art provides
- Readers who need their pharmaceutical guides to maintain the tonal dignity of a medication insert
- Anyone who was not aware suppositories were a thing before this description and is now having a full moment
- Gag gifts for healthcare workers who have these conversations regularly and need a visual aid that's actually funny
- White elephant exchanges where handing someone a suppository book produces the most educational reaction of the evening
- Gifts for anyone who recently had a hospital stay and encountered the suppository as a post-operative option
- Medical school gift sets for students who need to understand that some medications arrive via unexpected routes
The pharmaceutical industry spends billions on medication development and approximately zero dollars on illustrated guides to suppository administration that are also funny. This book fills that gap for a fraction of the cost of the medication itself, which admittedly is not a high bar given pharmaceutical pricing, but the content-to-cost ratio here is exceptional. The suppository works. The book explains how it works. The cartoon art makes the explanation memorable in a way that a medication insert does not.
Buy it for someone who has been prescribed one and needs the emotional support of knowing there's a book about it. Buy it for a healthcare worker who deserves something in the break room that acknowledges the full range of pharmaceutical conversations they have daily. Buy it for anyone who has experienced the suppository option and needs to laugh about it at a safe distance. The pill goes in the butt. The book explains this clearly. That clarity has value. Not all of medicine is comfortable. This book makes one uncomfortable part funny.
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