Bookofjoe's Favorite Thing: Best Pill Splitter

I've been wondering about an automated way to do this and also wondering why they don't make more half doses for some of these pills people need chopped up

In my country this would get you few side-to-side head shakes followed by quiet whisper: "Americans..."

Every uncoated pill that has a curved surface can be split by placing it on a hard surface and pressing down on opposite sides with your thumbs. The split is more accurate if it is pre-scored -- place the scoring/groove face up during the split. But even without the groove, it is rarely worse than a 55:45 split in my experience. And no, I have no idea why this story is on HN.

I've used the el cheapo for a long time with no issues... Sounds like a life hackers version of "premature optimization is the root of all evil"

$30 for a simple pill splitter ? Must be a affiliate deal or similar, the author does not deny this ...

I don't understand what the use case for this is, would someone care to explain?

The very same prolific HN contributor

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bookofjoe

There could be a version of this where you clamp the pill to make sure the split is right in the middle. Just saying...

EDIT: Yeah, obviously there are dozens at 3 bucks on temu.