The Marvel of Modern Medicine.

Chuck Stone · 02-12-2012 03:13PM #1

I'd probably be dead only for the marvel of modern medicine. I'm asthmatic so I need to manage my condition with medicine.

I'd have a horrible limp if I hadn't got my Achilles tendon sewn back together a few years ago after snapping it playing futbol.

I'd have a mouth full of rotten teeth had I not got fillings to repair the holes that appear from enjoying our luscious modern diet.

We are truly living in an amazing world where humans can be fixed with drugs and surgery.

What has modern medicine done for you lately?

donvito99 · 02-12-2012 03:14PM

Chuck Stone = 6 Million Dollar Man?

Haelium · 02-12-2012 03:14PM

Well I can take a pill that stops me from getting the ****s if I eat greasy fast food.

Not exactly a miracle, but it's pretty handy.

aaronjumper · 02-12-2012 03:14PM

Nothing, I can't afford it. Had to pay €100 last time I was in hospital for four stitches and a Tetnis shot.

Shryke · 02-12-2012 03:17PM

Thalidomide. What was the question?

Chuck Stone · 02-12-2012 03:17PM

aaronjumper wrote: »

Had to pay €100 last time I was in hospital for four stitches and a Tetnis shot.

That's cheap. Not so long ago that might have killed you. Thank your lucky stars that you live in this fantastic modern world of marvellous medicines and procedures.

TheFisherKing · 02-12-2012 03:18PM

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/11856.php

NegativeCreep · 02-12-2012 03:20PM

I'd probably have no right arm and my feet would face the wrong way because of clubfoot.

I'm the fine specimen of a man I am today because of the marvel of modern medicine.

Chuck Stone · 02-12-2012 03:20PM

Shryke wrote: »

Thalidomide. What was the question?

TheFisherKing wrote: »

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/11856.php

Oh FFS.

aaronjumper · 02-12-2012 03:22PM

Chuck Stone wrote: »

That's cheap. Not so long ago that might have killed you. Thank your lucky stars that you live in this fantastic modern world of marvellous medicines and procedures.

Damn you and your proving me wrong in public! :pac:

Yeah but I was trying to save money not spend it. It was expensive for me at the time, not to mention the seven hour wait in A&E.

Modern medicine is pretty good but it's not exactly cheap.

darrcow · 02-12-2012 03:24PM

i can stay hard for hours now all i need is 1 little tablet

Tiddlypeeps · 02-12-2012 03:25PM

TheFisherKing wrote: »

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/11856.php

That article is 8 years old!

Either way what would deaths have been if the hospitals didn't exists.

ScumLord · 02-12-2012 03:28PM

I almost died quite recently due to an infection. Thanks modern medicine!

Real Life · 02-12-2012 03:28PM

im with you there OP. im living with half a bowel and if the other half hadnt been removed id be dead. But because of modern medicine i can live like this.

Chuck Stone · 02-12-2012 03:30PM

Real Life wrote: »

im with you there OP. im living with half a bowel and if the other half hadnt been removed id be dead. But because of modern medicine i can live like this.

Good to hear you're okay Sir.

Hippies! · 02-12-2012 03:32PM

Nothing, I'm a marvel of natural selection unlike you

mackg · 02-12-2012 03:33PM

I've epilepsy. It's practically a non issue because of the tablets though.

Lollers · 02-12-2012 03:36PM

Your treatment if you don't have health insurance.

Tbh I would not be here if it weren't for some of the brilliant medical staff we have in this country. Pity about the shysters running the health service though.

TheFisherKing · 02-12-2012 03:36PM

Tiddlypeeps wrote: »

That article is 8 years old!

Fair enough, here's a more up to-date one:

Medical errors kill more than a quarter million people every year in the United States and injure millions. Add them all up and "you have probably the third leading cause of death" in the country, says Dr. Peter Pronovost, an anesthesiologist and critical care physician at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/06/09/health/medical-mistakes/index.html

Either way what would deaths have been if the hospitals didn't exists.

Eh, you think I don't want hospitals to exist because I injected some balance to the sycophantic praising? Well, I don't.

To point out the inadequacies in something, does not make one opposed to it's very existence - just to the inadequacies .

Chuck Stone · 02-12-2012 03:40PM

mackg wrote: »

I've epilepsy. It's practically a non issue because of the tablets though.

Fantastic.

Imagine.. in the olden days they thought epilepsy was caused by demons and it could have resulted in the brutal death of the sufferer.

These days it's just another condition that is managed by taking a few marvellous pills.

Chuck Stone · 02-12-2012 03:46PM

TheFisherKing wrote: »

Eh, you think I don't want hospitals to exist because I injected some balance to the sycophantic praising?

Sycophantic praising my hole. I'm anything but a sycophant believe me.

Btw pointing to the outliers is not 'injecting balance'.

Is modern medicine perfect? No.

Is modern medicine is truly marvellous?

Hell yeah.

barbiegirl · 02-12-2012 03:50PM

I just had an operation performed with the help of robotics. :-). It means that after 2 smaller ones to come my hubbie and I will have a chance to be parents. Even 10 years ago the technology wasn't there to help us.

Yes mistakes are made, my dad was killed by one, but without medical intervention both my parents would not be alive or have lived as long as they do/did. My youngest and eldest brothers would be dead, an other brother would have a gammie arm and leg, my sister would be in constant pain, really only myself and one brother would be relatively OK.

opinion guy · 02-12-2012 04:01PM

TheFisherKing wrote: »

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/11856.php

For the most part prescription errors are failures of the information systems in medicine which are woefully outdated, not of medicine itself. I grant you its a subtle distinction, but its an important one. We need electronic prescribing. Now.

dxhound2005 · 02-12-2012 04:03PM

I have one of the conditions covered by the Long Term Illness Scheme. Without the medications provided by the scheme free of charge with no means test I would only survive a short time. I estimate that the medications would cost me many hundreds of Euro per month. And they were not available at all less than a hundred years ago, before then my condition was a death sentence.

http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/health/health_related_benefits_and_entitlements/long_term_illness_scheme.html#la82be

So I am suitably grateful to modern medicine and the taxpayers of the country for my continued survival. Another phenomenon of modern times is the startling increase in longevity in developed countries.

AnonoBoy · 02-12-2012 04:07PM

I was very uptight and grumpy as a young man. But thanks to a remarkable procedure in which the stick was removed from my ass I am now fun-loving and easy-going.

Thanks Modern Medicine!

Chuck Stone · 02-12-2012 09:43PM

Anyone for a codeine party?

Madam_X · 02-12-2012 09:52PM

Just the usual stuff for me like antibiotics, and steroids/anti-histamines for sinus trouble/allergies. But I know people who had meningitis and penicillin saved them; people who could barely function with depression who now live full and happy lives thanks to just a small daily dose of anti-depressants; people able to manage type 1 diabetes easily - such a serious condition... Even HIV/AIDS, while obviously to be avoided, isn't the death sentence it was.

It's not without its drawbacks... not sure what they are, it would seem to me that they are usually due to misuse if the medicine rather than the medicine itself, but it has to be said in order to appease the "Medicine is all a scam - it's just a big pharma conspiracy" crowd... who'd hoover up the penicillin if they contracted meningitis.