Writing for The New England Journal of Medicine, Atul Gawande reviews the history of surgery. The utility and efficacy of surgical procedures increased sharply with the use of anesthesia and antiseptic practices.
Before anesthesia, the sounds of patients thrashing and screaming filled…
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Western medicine as we know it isn’t very old… compared to several thousand years of Chinese Medicine (some say 5000...
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Emphasis MINE. Because WHOA.
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