If medicine hadn’t advanced from their day, I would be blind from cataracts, my brother would have died in early childhood, a friend of mine would have died over 20 years ago after a major stroke in her 30s, and I would now be suffering from an ulcer. On the other hand, I would not have been given a drug that wound up giving me diabetes, but that honestly would NOT be a reasonable trade-off.
Modern medicine is not perfect, but it is a lot better than it used to be.
Both of you are wrong. Longer lives and more people survive than not these days. They do know what they are doing. Those 2 came from a time with no regulations for anything least of all medicines. Our problem is getting to it. We have some of the best around, and it is hard to get it to save lives. So they would die without coverage. it would be kind of funny to know you could have lived if you could have gotten the meds or surgery you needed because of lack of money.
There is quite a bit of truth to this one. George Washington got sick and the doctors kept “bleeding” him to get out the “bad blood”. They drained half of his blood volume and he died. President Garfield was shot in 1881. The doctors weren’t well versed in sterile procedures and kept probing the wound, one even piercing his liver. He died 79 days later from septicemia. It is likely had they left the bullet in place and used proper cleaning procedures, he would have survived.
MS72 about 6 years ago
nothing has really changed
sew-so about 6 years ago
If medicine hadn’t advanced from their day, I would be blind from cataracts, my brother would have died in early childhood, a friend of mine would have died over 20 years ago after a major stroke in her 30s, and I would now be suffering from an ulcer. On the other hand, I would not have been given a drug that wound up giving me diabetes, but that honestly would NOT be a reasonable trade-off.
Modern medicine is not perfect, but it is a lot better than it used to be.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] about 6 years ago
Both of you are wrong. Longer lives and more people survive than not these days. They do know what they are doing. Those 2 came from a time with no regulations for anything least of all medicines. Our problem is getting to it. We have some of the best around, and it is hard to get it to save lives. So they would die without coverage. it would be kind of funny to know you could have lived if you could have gotten the meds or surgery you needed because of lack of money.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] about 6 years ago
The coloring for those two looks wrong. Should be of a bluish color to transparent.
Airbender about 6 years ago
There is quite a bit of truth to this one. George Washington got sick and the doctors kept “bleeding” him to get out the “bad blood”. They drained half of his blood volume and he died. President Garfield was shot in 1881. The doctors weren’t well versed in sterile procedures and kept probing the wound, one even piercing his liver. He died 79 days later from septicemia. It is likely had they left the bullet in place and used proper cleaning procedures, he would have survived.