Stupidity? Or Sadism?

[xela]

Does it just not occur to people to think about their customers? To imagine themselves in their customers' shoes?

I am well into the top percentile of general health and motor function for recovering stroke patients. Indeed, my motor control is essentially normal. And every single time I fill my pillboxes, I drop at least one dipyridamole on the floor. A drug the vast majority of whose recipients are recovering stroke patients, most of whom have serious motor control challenges &mdash which is delivered in the form of a pill less than half the size of a childrens' aspirin. What the fuck were they thinking? Is this some cruel joke?

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[Edit 2008-10-12: changed from public to friendslocked.]

Comments

[yakshaver.livejournal.com]

That's fascinating. And a good question. I suspect in part because the box would have to go through FDA medical device approval. (A pill bottle is a pill bottle, but if you're going to claim to deliver a measured dose at the push of a button, your mechanism better reliably deliver one measured dose.) Hopefully they're trying.

[awfief.livejournal.com]

perhaps....could also be that they cost more....and then of course there's the childproofing issue.

but I do feel smart that I came up with that. :)