Side Effects
- Autores: Joan Baranow
- Localización: JAMA: the journal of the American Medical Association, ISSN 0098-7484, Vol. 311, Nº. 20, 2014, págs. 2130-2130
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
You wake up one morning and find you’re encased in someone else’s skin.
So this is what the much-touted alien invasion was all about.
They should have at least given you a certificate, or your favorite hyacinth.
Instead, they crawled in through every tight orifice to play badminton across your chest.
They’ve fashioned ingenious boats from bone chips and are now angling through your aortic valve, crowding the rail to get a glimpse of your pulsing bloody heart, your vast, mitochondrial operations.
But soon after the bon voyage, the hulls scrape bottom, breach capillary walls, and it’s the Titanic all over again, blue, horror-struck, gasping—who knew aliens need to breathe like we do? By now you’re writhing in bed, reading up on anastrozole and its many unpleasant effects.
You wonder if your affairs are in order, if those tiny scientists will get back to their flagship in time.
