A mouthful of a word. My brother-the-doctor (in fact both brothers are doctors) offered me the Greek word incorporated into the medical lexicon. In response to my complaint that perhaps a medication I was taking was no longer as effective after a long and happy coexistence with my body. Pills, pills.
Tachyphylaxis - that medicine you loved has stopped loving you.
Certain words are just too delicious.
Like a hand-made dark truffle from Auer Chocolatier, rolled repeatedly over and under the tongue.
So what do you do? Reduce dose, take a drug 'holiday' (a dreadful American term that makes it sound like you're on spring break in Miami), ignore it, get over it, shop around for another med ?
But this is nothing compared to what's happening to the overseas drug industry Americans have relied on for decades which Trump has tariffed mercilessly. European Pharma may not be saintly, but it still should be allowed to serve the public, export medicines and their components to the US without costly impediments.
Now prices in the US are soaring......unless the Supreme Court rules that Trump's arbitrary and vengeful tariffs are illegal.
The Supreme Court is busy mulling it over.
'Tachy' means lightly, quickly
'Taxis' in Greek means order, regular disposition, arrangement....:
We beg the Supreme Court: Tachytaxis (pseudo Greek).
