Would you be alive today without modern medicine?

[UnklSnappy]

I'd be dead.
Either from a ruptured appendix when I was a teen or a Staph infection about 5 years ago.

 

[Viper GTS]

Doubtful. At best I'd be alive but close to legally blind. I was born quite premature but if I survived that I'd have functionally worthless vision right now. Instead with two donor corneas I can drive & function basically normally.

Viper GTS

 

[techs]

Where are the votes from the dead people?

 

[sourceninja]

Appendix exploded, Kidney stone that was blocking my kidney from draining, hospitalized for pneumonia. Nope, I'd be dead.

 

[JamesV]

I'd probably be dead, but from suicide.

My bout with Lyme disease was the most agony I've ever suffered in my lifetime. Two weeks of excrutiating pain, that moved; one day in shoulder, next in knee, then in my neck and back. Add to that extreme headaches, and the muscular dystrophy-like state of those who were misdiagnosed and went untreated for years(from documentary on the subject).

 

[Blueoak]

The thing about removing modern medicine is that modern amenities should be considered as well. They certainly come with their drawbacks including overeating due to availability of sugary foods, a more sedentary technological lifestyle, and negative environmental factors contributing to cancer and such. I'm sure some people would have done better if they weren't or hadn't been living during modern times.

As for me, I'd probably survive healthwise, but I'd be deaf and not so great eyesight. I probably would have been blindsided by a runaway horse pulling a carriage.

 

[mikeymikec]

For the purposes of this poll, answer 'yes' for any 'maybe' situation. Also assume that you made it through childbirth with no complications from the childbirth itself. Assume medieval European medicine.

I assume you mean 'assume more modern than medieval medicine'?

If so, I voted 'No'.

I have a chronic condition that if I hadn't died about 9-10 years ago, I probably would have wished I was dead As it is, I have medication that I will very likely have to take for the rest of my life, unless they cure it, which is unlikely because it doesn't get a lot of press attention.

 

[sourn]

I put know, as I'm guessing gall stones could kill you? I had two, and had to have my gall bladder remove. I'm guessing if I waited to long it could have eventually killed me.


I also had kidney stone that would not pass and had to have it removed, I would also assume it could've eventually killed me.

Other then those two things I don't think so. Like I'm said I'm not sure those two could've just guessing they could've lead to something that eventually would've.

 

[Jeff7]

No.

I had some kind of stomach and/or intestinal infection when I was only a few years old. Everything could have made me throw up, sometimes even just water. And whatever stayed down didn't stay in me for very long. Without an IV, it would probably have been death by dehydration, or else starvation later on.

 

[Baked]

I was ran over by a car when I was ten. Without modern medicine, I would've been dead.

 

[UglyCasanova]

Probably, but I'd probably also have 1 leg.

 

[Mixolydian]

Interesting how many people here have had such serious medical issues. I must be genetically superior. :awe:

 

[jupiter57]

Where are the votes from the dead people?

Ima vote just as soon as that other foot starts slipping into the grave!

 

[Agent11]

Maybe 50/50. Ripped a big hole in my leg at one point, maybe two inches in diameter, you could see the muscle. Got it cleaned and sewed up by a pro using sterile instruments, took antibiotics as a precaution.

Maybe I would've been okay just stitching it up with mom's sewing kit, or maybe I die or lose the leg from an infection.

Eh, if you where unlucky they would have packed it with some sort of dubious poultice and bled you. . If you where lucky they would wash it with vinegar and cauterize it.

It all depended on who was helping you.

 

[OverVolt]

I would be dead. Born with hernias.

As an adult, I would be fine actually. I've never been deathly ill.

So maybe, depends how bad the hernias were. I was a baby so I don't know.

 

[BUTCH1]

No, I had Scarlet fever at age 11, without the sulfur drugs I was taking I doubt it, as it was I was in quarantine for 6 weeks..

 

[MrColin]

Appendicitis would have taken me out last September, assuming I could have survived the severe gastroenteritis I had in the 90's without treatment.

 

[OverVolt]

I just had norovirus and couldn't drink for 2.5 days and could eat for 5 days and I was more or less fine the whole time. I didn't panic about the dehydration On day 2 I was able to keep some water down, and then some gatorade, and felt infinitely better. I had to let myself get very dehydrated first though. before water would take.