Two things are often very true of the modern world. No one wants to get sick, and no one wants to see the doctor. Getting sick makes you feel bad, so that’s a given. But there is ample evidence that people in need of doctors avoid care for a variety of reasons ranging from nervousness […]
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Everyone wants to be healthy to some degree or another. Even if you want to eat nothing but pizza and beer every day, you’d still probably like to maintain your weight and an overall sense of good health when you do it. But the world doesn’t work that way. In fact, the world works against […]
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Modern medicine is a term we use to describe what is generally considered the best and most advanced kind of health care we have available. This is in contrast to things like ancient Chinese medicine or old school quackery and ill-informed procedures like lobotomies and trepanning and such. But there are a number of treatments […]
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While Covid has received global attention due to its high death count and infection rates, it’s still only one of the many epidemics of infectious diseases currently ongoing around the world. Many of them fly under the radar due to being limited to small populations or certain regions of the world, even if some – […]
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Medicine is an absolute marvel of science. To think we’ve gone from at one point using poisons like mercury to try to treat diseases to being able to grow a patient a new ear using their own cells. There are new and seemingly miraculous treatments being put into use all the time. Sometimes they’re extremely […]
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You’d think that anyone who puts the time, effort and money into becoming a doctor would really be committed to helping people. Years of medical school, huge tuition fees and, arguably, a lot of intelligence need to be involved. And yet, despite that, you keep hearing stories of doctors doing things so remarkably dumb or […]
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