The Art of Taking Medication

Simple strategies for effective ingestion

Bradley Jamison
Human Parts
Published in
9 min readJul 16, 2019

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AsAs a toddler I was prone to strep throat, which meant I needed to take antibiotics. At that stage of life, this meant drinking pink “bubble-gum” flavored liquid, which many of you might also recall if you were ever even slightly sick as a child. I hated the taste so much that I learned to swallow pills at the age of two. Unfortunately, this…

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Bradley Jamison
Human Parts

Freelance writer and personal essayist. She considers herself a cat wrangler, chronic illness advocate, makeup addict, and a total geek.