Corpse Run 665: Alola-care
You can watch this strip be doodled (and me tone-deaf singalong to Disney Pandoa) here!
I’m going to go off on a limb here and assume that even in a world were families send their ten year olds out into the woods to trap/dogfight wild animals, leaving random doses of medicine all over the place would be seen as unwise.
With that in mind, I declare the Alola region (in addition to every other region in the Pokemon world) to be practicing unwise medical policy.
All over the place you can find potions, super potions, burn heals, antidotes, etc… Other than the fact that children can, and are, picking up these drugs and self medicating in likely incorrect doses, aren’t there expiration dates for medication?
Surely a syringe of what-have-you likely won’t last as long when it’s sitting out in the middle of the woods, or a field of flowers, or in the mud at a ranch.
…but what do I know? I’m not a doctor.
http://serebii.net/itemdex/superpotion.shtml
“A spray-type medicine for treating wounds. It can be used to restore 60 HP to an injured Pokémon.”
It’s a spray on medicine (and has been since forever), so I’m not sure why you’re talking about syringes…
And obviously they’ve developed very safe, shelf stable medicine in the Pokemon universe. Because otherwise, yea, it would be absurd.
Are you trying to ruin the joke?
I’ve always just assumed that the items you find are things people drop in the heat of battle. Also, it’s hard to say how strong the medicine in Pokemon games is… I mean, there’s probably a strip in the fact that Potion, a man-made medicine designed specifically to heal Pokemon… is less effective than bottled water.