planning a service

My rabbi has given me a Friday-night service to plan and lead this summer, and he'll actually be there to see me so I can get feedback and advice from him. Nifty! I'm going to doodle about some of my preliminary thoughts in this entry.

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not quite what they meant

I know that medication instructions are intentionally terse. There's limited space on the label and they have to assume that the person reading them is dumb, or confused, or too doped up to think straight. And I know that "we all know what they mean" trumps accuracy in that case. Ok, fine.

But even so, I cannot shake the two immediate reactions that "take one pill twice a day" always provokes in me: (1) recovery and reuse sounds icky, and (2) then why did you give me more than one?