Barney & Clyde by Gene Weingarten; Dan Weingarten & David Clark for May 12, 2023

Or “Big Pharma”?

The patron saints of pharmacists: Cosmas, Damian, Gemma Galgani, James (son of Alphaeus), James (son of Zebedee), Mary Magdalene, and Raphael the Archangel

Doctors: Cosmas, Damian, Luke the Evangelist, Pantaleon, Raphael the Archangel, and Gianna Beretta Molla

Druggists: Cosmas and Damian

“You should be proud.”

With her general attitude, I don’t think she’d like being called a “Proud Girl”.

He also rejected ICD-9.

I was very popular when I was in college back in the ’60s because I owned a PDR.

Pharmacopia…goddess of the emergency room.

Naming her after his job shows what his priorities are.

It could have been worse, it could have been Placebo.

At least he didn’t name her mexaclaflubamub. They have such strange names for drugs nowadays.

Asclepius is the Greek god of medicine. And Romans worshipped Minerva as goddess of medicine, too.