Lol Avram, but I believe it was another yiddish speaking patient who gave the drug its name. Writhing in pain that patient yelled out "Oy Vi! Codeine!" The doctor complied and we had the birth of vicodin, literally oxycodone for pain.
Here's the answer (which nobody came up with, I might add...)
When Vicodin was first introduced, it was determined that it was SIX times stronger than Codeine (so you were on the right track with that part...). The roman numeral six is VI. Hence VIcodin.
Because some nice old yiddish paitient asked the doctoor when he prescribed codein "Vy codiene?"
ReplyDeleteLol Avram, but I believe it was another yiddish speaking patient who gave the drug its name. Writhing in pain that patient yelled out "Oy Vi! Codeine!" The doctor complied and we had the birth of vicodin, literally oxycodone for pain.
ReplyDeleteOK - Time's Up!
ReplyDeleteHere's the answer (which nobody came up with, I might add...)
When Vicodin was first introduced, it was determined that it was SIX times stronger than Codeine (so you were on the right track with that part...).
The roman numeral six is VI.
Hence VIcodin.
Cool, no?
what's really sad is that none of us readers thought to just google the answer and then seem real smart
ReplyDeleteCuzzin' -
ReplyDeleteIf it were that easy, I wouldn't have posted it ;)
i was thinking of googling it but thought that would be cheating :)
ReplyDeletecool answer!
i COULDN'T FIND IT ON gOOGLE!
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