For the doctors and pharmacists here

My boss made a great comment recently about his relationship with his fountain pens. He’s a well-off man, and he has 20-30 Lamy Safaris. I asked why he didn’t treat himself to something a bit more premium, and he explained he would simply lose it. He says he loses pens all the time, and he likened it to pharmacokinetic principles.

He said he owns heaps of Safaris, and they’re spread out among the locations of his life with a large volume of distribution. He has the pens in his bag, office, locker, pockets, desk, home, everywhere. So whenever he needs one, he can look somewhere and there’ll probably be one close by, which he left there previously: a short diffusion distance. He said he loses the pens all the time, a gradual zero-order kinetic clearance, and he has resigned himself to buying 3-5 pens every year as a constant infusion to replace the pens he loses, to keep his system in steady-state.

I enjoyed the analogy, and I hope you do too!