If modern medicine didn't exist, would you be dead by now?
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I had my ear ripped in half and need glasses so i think i would be slightly fucked at least.
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Are we classing optometry as medicine? I hadn't thought of that. Although, there is a theory that if you don't use glasses consistently from an early age your eyes correct by themselves over time, but I'm not sure how valid that hypothesis is.
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This is a situation where I don't know what I don't know, with regards to not even knowing if modern medicine helped keep me alive today.
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Would have died during childbirth almost definitely. Wrapped the umbilical cord around my neck and dwas ~6 weeks early.
C section isn't exactly modern but keeping me alive and getting me out of the womb quick enough ... Doubtful
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Yep. Had some sort of liver infection a few years ago that almost killed me. No way I would have survived without antibiotics, a constant saline drip, a biopsy, and the care of nurses.
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I have spina bifida. I was born in an Eastern Bloc country and I barely survived my first few days of life despite the hospital I was in having some vestiges of modern medicine. I probably would've died within days were it not for modern medicine.
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I have congenital heart disease. I am almost 65, happily married, productive, with kids and grandkids.
Without modern medicine?
Dead at 2, in 1958. And 1983, and 2002. I am very grateful for modern medicine.
I understand why my life needs to have value and purpose.
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