How pharmacology mnemonics got me through med school

It was almost midnight, and I was staring at the word oxybutynin like it had personally wronged me.

I had seen it maybe twenty times that week. Flashcard, missed. Practice question, missed. I knew it treated something with the bladder, I think, and that it blocked some receptor, and past that, my brain just went quiet. Around me, the library was clearing out. I had two hundred more drugs to learn, …

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How pharmacology mnemonics got me through med school