These puzzles make me sick! Mystery Cache
These puzzles make me sick!
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The cache is not located at the posted coordinates, but is within two miles.
Please bring your own pen. Feel free to sign the log illegibly, just like your own doctor would. Mini Star Trek communicator pin for FTF.
Congratulations to The North Star for the FTS and FTF (and for doing some quality control on the puzzle as well).
12/17/2016 update: Puzzle is still solvable, but the resource that I used has changed, and it's more tedious than in the past. There has also been an increase in the number of possible resources, and I don't know if they have the same data. If you figured out the encoding method and need help finding the most useful resource, please feel free to contact me.
4/3/2020 update: I was notified of a new ambiguity that has arisen with the last prescription on the page. At this time, it isn't possible for me to completely eliminate the ambiguity. If you think that you've found the right path and aren't getting any love from Homer, please contact me with your coordinates and I'll help you out.
Recently, I contacted several veteran cachers and puzzlologists for permission to use their names in a puzzle that my junior cachers and I had thought of. It was to be a tribute to their inscrutable powers of deduction and their contributions to the geocaching community. As I started constructing the puzzle, I thought to myself, why should I be thanking these people? Working on their puzzles has caused a multitude of symptoms for which I have sought treatment. Take a look at what's in my medicine cabinet.
It would be an understatement to say that The North Star's puzzles have caused a lot of headaches. 
Endless hours at the keyboard trying to find solutions to kablooey's puzzles have resulted in nerve compression at the wrists and the elbows. 
How is it possible that Chrysalides and so many others are able to solve just about every puzzle on the map? Why am I so dense? This really gets me worked up. 
Cats4us's "Pirate's Pairarrdice" was one of the first puzzles that I ever attempted. It took forever to figure it out. The words of the pirates echoed through my head as I fidgeted in bed trying to fall asleep. Ar, arr, arrr! 
Any puzzle that includes KISS and Blue Oyster Cult, such as Galileo the Cat's "Cow Palace Rockin'", has got to be good, but how exactly does one use that math formula? Nope, never going to solve this one. And I still have no idea what to do with kablooey's "Trees". 
I think I'm personally responsible for at least 100 of the wrong answers in cachbefound's "What's New". 
You can validate your puzzle solution with certitude.
***** Congratulations to The North Star for FTS and FTF *****
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
[If you've figured out the encoding but can't find a resource that yields viable data, feel free to contact me.]