The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
Cocaine is the best local anesthetic that's ever been discovered. Uh, it was the template for all the local anesthetics that we use now like lidocaine or bivocaine. um it was the template and it is still the best one that we have and it's used almost exclusively for nasal and eye surgeries now where you have to stay awake and you have to be functioning and we can't intubate you and we can't do these things. So this is the ideal uh drug.
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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