評論
打印
Over the course of your lifetime,
在你的一生中
you're likely to be prescribed more than 14,000 pills.
醫(yī)生可能給你開了超過一萬四千顆藥丸
Tiny little spheres of
這種小小的粉末壓片
crushed powder with almost magical effects,
有著魔法般的功效
pills that will possibly save
藥物可以拯救生命
and extend your life by decades.
并將壽命延長數(shù)十年
Any medicine actually is a miracle.
實際上 任何藥物都是一種奇跡
If you really think about what a medicine does,
只要你想想藥物的工作原理
that you can design a small chemical
人居然能研制出一種化學(xué)藥品
to interfere with a biological process to alter disease...
調(diào)控生物進(jìn)程 進(jìn)而治療疾病...
I mean, it is just astonishing that you ever get there.
我們能做到這一點真的令人嗔目結(jié)舌
These miraculous pills
這些神奇藥物得以出現(xiàn)
often owe as much to serendipity as science.
所需的運氣與研究并重
We started with a drug that we hoped would be effective in angina
我們研制這種藥的初衷 是為了治療心絞痛
and we ended up with a medicine
最后卻發(fā)現(xiàn)這種藥物
that was highly effective in erectile dysfunction.
對治療陽痿非常有效
This accidental nature of drug discovery means little is known
這種藥物發(fā)現(xiàn)的偶然性表明
about what they can do until we all take them.
在服用藥物前我們對它知之甚少
In many ways you learn as much about
即便投放市場之后
your medicine after it's launched as you knew before.
你對藥物許多方面的了解也并無增加
