Dr. William Halsted, a GIANT of a surgeon...

[SneakyBooger]

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was a cocaine addict.

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A Century of Brutal Call Schedules. The Libby Zion Case. And Cocaine. 3 Converging Stories.

Many things in medicine are the way they are because “that’s they way they have always been.” Customs propagate from generation to generation without deep analysis.

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[scarbrtj]

So was Freud. It's how he coped with getting slowly disfigured and thrown in pain's dungeon with multiple recurrences of, and surgeries and brachytherapies and X-ray therapies for, oral cavity carcinoma. Quite the story itself too.

 

[thecarbonionangle]

Cocaine is a hell of a drug