Tuesday, November 3, 2015

November 3: Writing Prompt #307-Placebo Effect

If you could create a painless, inexpensive cure for a single ailment, what would you cure and why?

I’m going to be a little selfish on this one and say the single ailment I would cure would be arthritis.  Now if you are talking about major disease, I would choose to cure all forms of cancer, but ailment (according to my online dictionary) means an illness, typically a minor one, so I’ll choose a cure for the various forms of arthritis.  Funny thing is, since I have myself been struggling with the beginnings of arthritis in my knees, I have discovered it’s a fairly common ailment of men and women, and not just elderly men and women. According to the CDC (Centers for Disease Control), 1 in 5 adults have doctor-diagnosed arthritis.  A cure for arthritis would help a lot of us feel physically as young as our hearts and minds still feel.    

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