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The late forties and early fifties: A memorable time in medicine
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Do you remember when cardiac pacemakers were bigger than car batteries and sat on the floor next to the patient's bed? Did you ever treat intractable peripheral edema with Southey tubes? Were intravenous fluids made in the hospital where you worked, and were those fluids administered through reusable rubber tubing? Was poliomyelitis rampant in your day, and did you ever have a patient in an "iron lung"?If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, you probably trained in the late 1940s or, as I did, in the early 1950s. Medicine in those days was much different from what it is now, as further illustrated by the following examples: Most medical students and house officers were unmarried, and only about 5% of them were women. On each teaching unit, there was a small "student lab" where medical students, interns, or both, did all of the initial and follow-up blood counts, urinalyses, stool guaiac tests, stains of sputum and various other specimens, and microscopic evaluation of pleural, peritoneal, cerebrospinal, pericardial, and joint fluids. House officers had no formal contracts-just a handshake and a spoken pledge to work diligently.
Fred,H.L.
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