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‘Right to Repair for Your Body’: The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine (www.404media.co)

submitted 2 months ago by ArchRecord@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Sharing because I found this very interesting.

The Four Thieves Vinegar Collective has a DIY design for a home lab you can set up to reproduce expensive medication for dirt cheap, producing medication like that used to cure Hepatitis C, along with software they developed that can be used to create chemical compounds out of common household materials.

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[–] bl_r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 130 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I fucking love pirate medicine. Fuck the US healthcare system, what good is having the “best healthcare in the world” if you can’t even afford mediocre healthcare?

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 62 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

If it was the best healthcare in the world, we’d have the best outcomes and we don’t even have that for rich people. We have a (non-metric) shit ton of world class research universities and highly respected agencies like the FDA and NIH but Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, can’t even get the mental health services he obviously needs.

I’d obviously rather go to an American hospital than a hospital in most of the world but spending a lot to cover up a shitty system isn’t as good as a functioning system.

Edit: I originally had NHS instead of NIH but the NHS, is, obviously, where British people get their brain medicines.

[–] bl_r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 2 months ago

but Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, can’t even get the mental health services he obviously needs

Lmfao

I’d rather get healthcare at all. I’ve been too poor to afford any medical care at points in my life, I’d settle for even some low quality care as opposed to none at all and hoping that this new weird pain either is insignificant and goes away without issue, or it gently takes me out in the night.

I’m excited to see where pirate medicine goes. I’ve met a trans woman who told me that her DIY HRT was life changing in the best possible way, and I can only dream of what would happen if people started making their own Insulin or T or whatever

[–] kspatlas@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The NHS is British, not american

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Yep. Thanks for catching that. I meant NIH, the U.S. National Institutes of Health and accidentally combined it with HHS (the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services that NIH is an agency within) and that was apparently too many acronyms.

[–] 0x0@programming.dev -3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Did you really call the US healthcare system the best in the world?

[–] Wrufieotnak 14 points 2 months ago

No, they specifically put it in quotes, to make the distinction.

[–] bl_r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago

No. Of course not. I put it in quotes since I was being sarcastic.