The Greatest Medical Breakthrough
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The Greatest Medical Breakthrough
There's a bit a of debate going on as to which is the greatest medical breakthrough since the mid 1800s at the BMJ. From a non-medical viewpoint what would you vote for?
Try and answer BEFORE you visit the link below or you might be influenced....
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When the BMJ was first published, in 1840, average life expectancy in the Western world was only about half as long as it is today. Some of the reasons for this are social and political: increasing prosperity and increasing longevity have, for the most part, come hand in hand. But many of the reasons are medical, in the broadest sense of the term. The meticulously recorded observations of epidemiologists; the chance discoveries of pharmacologists; the sheer bloody mindedness of surgeons; and the curiosity of physicians, not to mention the innovations of a mixed bag of engineers, physicists, and even politicians, have all helped to increase the length and quality of our lives......http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/conte.../7567/0-g?ehom
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12-09-2006, 10:58
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Re: The Greatest Medical Breakthrough
Effective and appropriate anaesthetics (local and general).
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12-09-2006, 11:00
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Re: The Greatest Medical Breakthrough
Instead of Hammers? 
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12-09-2006, 11:02
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Re: The Greatest Medical Breakthrough
Contraceptives
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12-09-2006, 11:05
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Re: The Greatest Medical Breakthrough
I'd say (in my limited knowledge) penicillin.
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12-09-2006, 11:06
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Re: The Greatest Medical Breakthrough
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I'd say (in my limited knowledge) penicillin.
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I'd go along with that
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12-09-2006, 11:09
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Re: The Greatest Medical Breakthrough
Minoxidil 
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12-09-2006, 11:12
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Re: The Greatest Medical Breakthrough
Prozac?
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12-09-2006, 11:12
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Re: The Greatest Medical Breakthrough
Infection control - simple washing and sterliisation of hands etc. Just a shame our NHS seems to have forrgoten that concept 
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12-09-2006, 11:14
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Re: The Greatest Medical Breakthrough
Seems to me there are 3 different ways to look at this from Chemical to Medical to Surgical all equally valid to the person affected.
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12-09-2006, 11:15
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Re: The Greatest Medical Breakthrough
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Originally Posted by foreverwar
Effective and appropriate anaesthetics (local and general).
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My grandfather was a surgeon. He said that a common way of anaesthetising patients was to put a mask on, turn on the nitrous oxide and wait till the patient went blue, then turn on the oxygen. 
Makes you glad to be alive in the 21st Century...
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12-09-2006, 11:17
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Re: The Greatest Medical Breakthrough
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That's a bit unfair - there are no proven cases of people falling asleep watching West Ham! 
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12-09-2006, 11:24
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Re: The Greatest Medical Breakthrough
X-Rays & all the subsequent medical imaging techniques, such as MRI.
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12-09-2006, 12:00
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Re: The Greatest Medical Breakthrough
Chemotherapy, and screenings for cancer.
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12-09-2006, 12:07
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Re: The Greatest Medical Breakthrough
Transplant surgery/organ donors
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