I'd be dead if it weren't for modern medicine

[Slyer]

I was just thinking about how lucky we are to have the medicine we have these days. I was born prematurely and had to spend a fair amount of time in an incubator after birth before I could go home.
If I were born a few hundred years ago I would have very likely died in infancy.

How many of you have been through something similar or have had a serious injury that would have been fatal if you lived in an age without modern medicine?

[laserracer]

I can relate to that i had a major heart attack about 4 years ago.. now have 3 stents in my heart and take a shit load of meds to keep me going.. wouldnt be able to ride my bike without all that..but i can so lifes good

[Chrislost]

a classic demonstration of why the human race is doomed.

back in the day, you be dead, and there would be more air for healthy people to breathe...
you would not BE ABLE to spread weak genes into the pool...

[CB ARGH]

So we're all gonna die because we're living?

Weird world.

I've never had anything serious that could have been fatal, but if it weren't for my bee sting tablets (allergic to the small bastards), my toe would have been MASSSSSIVE!

[riffer]

Gee thanks Chrislost.

I hope you never have any children that require medical intervention at birth.

For me - I need insulin to survive (have had for most my life).

[Slyer]

a classic demonstration of why the human race is doomed.

back in the day, you be dead, and there would be more air for healthy people to breathe...
you would not BE ABLE to spread weak genes into the pool...

Yes but that only applies to genetic faults, not ones caused by injury etc.

[James Deuce]

Chrislost is one of those people I really want to meet one day.

[Curious_AJ]

well, i probably wouldn't have died of what I had but I would have probably had a really weak skull on the top of my teeth and probably have lost all my teeth by now. I had a non-cancerous growth in my mouth for a while and eventually it got huge so i had to have surgery to have it taken out, they told us that it was eating away at the bone and the teeth on the top of my jaw. anyway, many weeks later of xrays and testing and surgery it was removed! so many specialists had to be seen for this to happen, sigh! but yes, all good now hehe..

oh, as for being premature, i was that too and was heavily jaundiced... not sure if it would have killed me 100 years ago, but probably... i guess yeah yay for modern medicine!

[Slyer]

oh, as for being premature, i was that too and was heavily jaundiced... not sure if it would have killed me 100 years ago, but probably... i guess yeah yay for modern medicine!

Yeah but you might have grown up messed up.
Oh wait..

[Curious_AJ]

Yeah but you might have grown up messed up.
Oh wait..

yep, I did grow up messed up anyway... so if that was the case, to stop me growing up messed up... major fail... coz I'm like insanity wood ^o^

[Gareth123]

I believe we are breeding the human race to be weaker.

What did the Spatans do to infants that were deformed or sickly?

BRING BACK SPARTA!!!

[Hitcher]

I too was a premature baby. My mum had pregnancy toxaemia. Thanks to the marvels of modern medicine I was induced and spat out about seven weeks ahead of schedule. My mum is still going strong, and my lack of physical development grim testimony to her parenting and culinary skills.

[chester]

yep I should be dead too then

[Nagash]

Would appear alot of people would be dead without modern medicine..

Maybe people were just made of harder stuff back in the day?

[Trumpess]

Would appear alot of people would be dead without modern medicine..

Maybe people were just made of harder stuff back in the day?

I dunno about that - people being made of harder stuff back in the day?

Child birth was a big killer way back in the day.
Modern medicine saved my life!
Even though my kids can be a right pain in the arse, Im pleased to be around for them.