would you still be here if it weren't for modern medicine?

Strep throat sometimes can kill people with weak immune systems if not treated would be a lot more accurate.

I'm not sure Insulin counts as modern medicine given it was invented almost 100 years ago, but yeah, I'd be up shit creek.

Also worth adding is that modern sanitation systems and a general understanding of the importance of cleanliness have arguably had a far greater impact than modern medicines have. There is a very strong and direct correlation between life expectancy and the improvement of sanitation as well.

Obviously medicine takes some credit, but sometimes it feels like our plumbers and the guys who run the treatment plants don't get the love they deserve (and, and your parents for teaching you to wash your hands etc).

i do not have any serious complications and the only major thing that possibly could of saved me is when i fractured my skull when i was about 2-3 months old. i bet i could of survived since i didnt have surgery or anything. but other than that i think that most modern medicine is used to keep you alive not to specificly cure you. most of these diseases used to be a population control and since we have been able to fix and control disease there is over population. it is great that some people have a chance at life with the new technology but all the technology and advancements are hurting the earth and people. since we have all these pollutions and what not we are killing the only planet we know is livable. people need to go somewhat back to the olden days. grow your own food/grow food in communities and share. and also use natural herbs and plants to cure illnesses instead of paying for medicine that is made by polluting the earth. if we do not change our ways we will kill the earth and not be able to live like we should.


alot of modern things are because there is so many people. if there wasnt as many people there wouldnt be as many problems and than there wouldnt be the need or modern sanitation and what not. there are many colonies/ tribes living without anything we have today and they are doing pretty well aslong as more developed countries do not try and destroy them

missnu said:

I don't see why we can't just send them some...

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Gee, maybe we should pay more taxes then, huh.

Why dont you send some. Enough people dying here that aren't getting what they need, why send a dollar to africa hoping 5 cents makes it when you can do a whole dollars worth of good in your own neighborhood.


Strep throat would have killed me 20 times by now. Fuck that puto, it seems to always find me.

OGEvilgenius said:

Strep throat sometimes can kill people with weak immune systems if not treated would be a lot more accurate.

I'm not sure Insulin counts as modern medicine given it was invented almost 100 years ago, but yeah, I'd be up shit creek.

Also worth adding is that modern sanitation systems and a general understanding of the importance of cleanliness have arguably had a far greater impact than modern medicines have. There is a very strong and direct correlation between life expectancy and the improvement of sanitation as well.

Obviously medicine takes some credit, but sometimes it feels like our plumbers and the guys who run the treatment plants don't get the love they deserve (and, and your parents for teaching you to wash your hands etc).

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Can i resist?
No!
...They got a shitty deal ...
... but it's for what they signed up.
cn

at age 5 i was hit by a car. without surgery to relieve pressure i would have died.

i was once mauled by a dog and without iv antibiotics i very well could have died. infections from puncture woulds can easily kill a person, particularly the shit that lives in animal mouths. i was on antibiotics for weeks and was still scraping marble sized peices of pus out of my wounds, which were covered in modern antibiotic ointments and modern sterile gauze.

i've had highly concentrated strep a few times, and am quite certain i would have eventually died simply from not being able to eat or drink. the infection itself could kill, also.

i had pretty bad pneumonia once and combined with asthma and the allergies i had it was pretty bad, and while it may not have killed me directly, the congested coughing fits did cause me to puke in my sleep, and i could have easily aspirated. the steroids and nebulizer treatments may well have saved me from choking to death on my own vomit or coughing until i lost consciousness and cracked my head open.

i have no idea whether my vaccinations have had any impact but i've never had polio or any other old timey disease that used to kill people before there was a vaccine. just sayin'.

Obviously things would be way different without medicines lets say the life expectancy would probably be cut in half!

I got sick in Dec 2010. I got Pneumonia just as Cataclysm (For World of Warcraft) came out. I was in the hospital for one week they juiced me up with meds to fight it. After a week they let me out. A week later I was back in cause I got worse. This time they kept me in another week. I spent Christmas in the hospital. I would have died.

missnu said:

People in other parts of the world are still dying just because they need a little penicillin...I don't see why we can't just send them some...
I need an African pen pal...then I can just send them all these things they need without all this charity taking most of the donation thing. I wouldn't mind to just send a round of antibiotics a week overseas to someone that needs them...why can't we do that?

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fuck sending them penacillin just send them our moldy bread thats how they discovered penacillin. I would eat moldy bread to save my life for sure.

If it wasn't for modern medicine not only would I have died but my mother would not have survived long enough to give birth to me,hell, her father would have died when he was only in his teens to and I wouldn't have even had a mother to be gestated in...

i probably wouldve died when i was a kid from bronchitis (sp?)

Modern Medicine, sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeit.

I'd be dead if it weren't for air conditioning.

in summer of 09 when lyme disease caused me heart failure and paralysis, antibiotics (tetracyclines- doxycycline and minocycline) and rocephin made all my symptoms worse... intravenous injections of vitamin C (30 grams through a drip bag twice a week, about a one-hour procedure) cured ALL my symptoms and made me healthy.



modern medicine? yes. commonly practiced/covered by insurance? no

Not as common in the US as in other countries, but a bad tooth infection can and will cause death.

Besides wishing you WERE dead while suffering with a pain source located so close to your brain.

I had an impacted tooth of which I was unaware until one morning my face swoll up so big, it actually closed my eyes.

I have been in four car accidents none of which were my fault the first one I was a passenger in the car it was totaled and they said I should not have even lived the car looked so bad I had my seatbelt on and the airbag deployed, I had a frontal lobe brain injury. Second one I was stopped at a red light and a drunk driver hit me and that caused a brain bleed on the whole left side of my head. Third one I was hit by a big work truck on black ice during the winter and after that one the siezures started and made the migraines worse. The fourth accident an old lady hit me in the rain and I was concussed no wake up in the hospital and had to have 4 staples in the back of my head. I am blessed to be alive after even the first accident and I am sure I would probably not have made it if not for modern medicine.

Ear infection symptoms need to be recognized when you suffer from any Ear related problem. Ear infection can be found in adults, infants or in old people. There is no specific age for ear problems. But mainly it occurs in children.
Ear Infection Symptoms

Day 1: Born
Day 3: Released
Day 178-213: Vaccinations etc
Day 5475: Hand X-rayed after a fight. Not broken.
Day 13140: Dislocated arm for first time. Relocated it. Went to the ER. Waited 30mins and left undiagnosed.

^^^That is pretty much the sum of my medical experience. I dont break, i dont get hurt. I'd still be alive if we were using medicinal practices from 25,000 years ago.

Amaximus said:

Day 178-213: Vaccinations etc

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^^^^On second thought I guess it can be argued that the vaccinations etc are modern medicine.
But I assure you, if i had my say i would've refused them all! MAuAhHA

No dentistry? None at all? It counts ... cn

cannabineer said:

No dentistry? None at all? It counts ... cn

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Yeah. You're right. I overlooked the dentist. wisdom teeth pulled, cavities. root canals, etc etc. teeth are important. I've gone to the dentist a lot.

A root canal is the reason I selected Yes. I've had medicine prevent and reduce the effect of potentially crippling injuries, but the bad tooth could have killed me. It's truly one of the unsung miracles of modern living what dentistry has done for longevity. my opinion. cn