pharmacist
A pharmacist is a specialist who deciphers prescriptions—cryptic codes that bundle people’s anxieties into doseable packets. They artfully concoct a paradox of relief and expense using pills and capsules as raw materials. Answering patients’ questions with bottle-label-level explanations while guarding their own profit margins with fortress-like secrecy. Maintaining a smile at the intersection of health and economy until the final beep of the register. A master who can make even the bitterest medicine palatable with a seasoning called “hope” printed on a prescription.