In what decade do you think that residency, in general, was most grueling?
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The Toughest Era
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The 1640s
That's crap. The 1650s were much tougher due to PBL (Problem-based Blood Letting) coming into vogue.
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deleted87716
Yeah, you pretty much diagnosed things back then by tasting them.
I'd say any era prior to the invention of the urine test strip (ca. 1850) would've sucked. Talk about scut work... 😉
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The last 20 years of the 20th century.
Until one day in the fall of 1985, we routinely used to aspirate meconium by putting a tube in the trachea and sucking with our mouths. Now, a failed intubation or sometimes even a successful one led to a mouthful of meconium. Frequently.
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deleted87716
Yuck. I imagine that was one of those "see one, do one, teach every one you possibly can after that" kinda procedures. 😉
My parents still believe blood letting works. They swore by it for their chickens. Chickens would be droopy and down, let out a little blood, which was dark and coagulated, then Chickens would be happy and full of energy again.
Yeah, you pretty much diagnosed things back then by tasting them.
I'd say any era prior to the invention of the urine test strip (ca. 1850) would've sucked. Talk about scut work... 😉
Better scut work than scat work.
