My mom remembered when x-rays first came out they were used in …get this……shoe stores. Really! You tried on a pair of shoes and put your foot into the machine and then you could see how the fit was. Especially great for parents to see how much room there was for the kids foot to grow.
Wow!!! That is crazy!!! It’s a good thing that there is nothing nowadays that wasn’t in production very long, or understood very well, before mass-production and distribution so that people couldn’t possibly have any adverse effects from it…
Two doctors invented the chainsaw in 1780 to make the removal of pelvic bone easier and less time-consuming during childbirth. It was powered by a hand crank and looked like a modern-day kitchen knife with little teeth on a chain that wound in an oval.
I always like to point out that our method for diagnosing people with POTS (Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome) is strapping the person to a table and tilting them up until they pass out (aka the tilt table test) so we’re not entirely past the “torture” phase of medicine yet
@@elafimilo8199 people have different tolerance for experiences. For me, the tilt test was the culmination of two years of misdiagnosis and accusations of hypochondria. The relief of knowing was a huge positive despite the test. For a friend of mine, it was very different, and the test was just one more terrible in a long string of them.
Makes u feel so grateful that u did not live through this time, and at the same time makes you think what the future holds and how relatively better it will be compared to today...
please don't! some of these things are just traumatising to imagine. In my school we watched a documentary about the medical experiments the nazis did in concentration camps. because I repeated two classes I had to watch it 3 times. On the third one I just walked of home. Wich lead to some disciplinary consequences at school and therapeutic treatment afterwards. Beware of your students minds. Give hints but the world is gruesome enough!
My mom, to this day, still has a scar on her arm from getting that weird, pressurized vaccination when she was a little kid. I remember she told me once that it absolutely hurt like crazy! This vid was... Disturbingly fascinating..
@@juliet5114 I remember when I was in 1st grade, my sister in 2nd (California, 1969). They lined up the entire school in the cafeteria for small pox vaccinations. There we were, shivering and clutching each other, terrified. They moved down the line, shooting each kid in turn. We'd hear a "bang" from the gun then a kid would cry out, and they would move on to the next in line and BANG with another scream... There it was, moving closer and closer to us with the sound of the compressor roaring in our ears. This was how I learned about the inevitability of fate. Oh, and it hurt bad. Unfortunately. my cool scar has all but disappeared.
That may be from the smallpox vaccine because my mother has the same scar from it. The scar has multiple spots all formed into a small circle around the size of an American penny.
Dr mike and dr. Alok’s accent when impersonating dentists from their respect countries had me literally laughing out loud😂😂 highlight of the video for me
Someday, people will (hopefully!) look back in horror with some (most) of the "treatments" of autism - ABA, shocking us, etc. I hope we continue to move toward acceptance of differences and someday look at that with the horror it deserves.
My mother has told me stories about when my older brother was in ABA (for autism), how she'd hear him screaming and crying about whatever it was they were making him do. He was like 5-6 years old. It's allegedly gotten better recently though, and my mom's been sending my adopted younger brother to ABA (for FAS). It seems to be going much better for him, thankfully.
@@emerythegremlin5727 Yeah... what were they doing back then that made kids react that way? I helped out with an ABA clinic and it was "here, let's practice counting, good job, now you can play with the blocks for a minute! Then we can go outside and have a goldfish snack! And then we'll practice sorting pictures to learn object categories, and finally we'll sing some songs and say goodbye!" ABA has a really good reputation among psychologists these days, but I don't know much about the history. Of course, there are always *really* *dumb* *bad* *people* who make up their own pseudoscience-y ways of doing things, so it's possible some "ABA" clinics were Not Good.
The fact that we do a huge number of gynecological procedures without any anesthesia because “the cervix has not nerve endings” is probably something we will be looking back at with some side eye in the future. At least I hope so.
Pretty much everything to do with women's health checkups/procedures is already barbaric and stuck in the Dark Ages. It's shameful how little empathy and innovation there is, especially given there are so many women in the field.
@@trexmaniac4 I think that they cannot safely remove the device out of his body any more. Besides, maybe all his limbs cannot function normally at all, so there no point changing the state of him being attached to that device
I am SOOOOO glad my OB doctor does local anesthesia for: IUDs and implants!!!!!! Hopefully we will see more doctors utilizing something, because I hear placing IUD's are actually painful.
I had a cervical block when I got my IUD inserted. Frankly it took 76% of the pain away but it was still rather noticeable. Tbh it’s a cervix and it is nerve covered so I wasn’t looking for 100% pain free so I guess hell ye
@@theedmee on the the pain threshold, I unfortunately have a very low pain threshold and it weirdly takes a lot to numb me up. I also have fibromyalgia, which makes ANY procedure that much more difficult to navigate. 9/10 I must be either put completely out or have someone on stand by to catch my randomly thrashing limbs (especially my legs). Pain may help people discover their limits but goddamn.
I went through two cervical biopsies without anything, and they were excruciating. When I had to have a third colposcopy, I told him no, I wouldn't do it without being sedated or something to block pain. But thankfully, they reassured me that there wasn't going to be a biopsy with that one. I just know I _refuse_ to get another cervical biopsy without some sort of numbing, a local, a block, sedation, something. They're traumatizing.
It sounds really morbid, but I think it'd be pretty cool for you to react to full on torture devices and talk about how much damage they would have done.
I hope we look back at doing the iud insertion procedure without sedation, or pain killers to women, and realize how awful that is. Specially women that haven’t had children or have endometriosis like myself. It’s wildly talked about from women that it is excruciating and hurt for many days.
but cant you take the pain medication yourself on the other hand it sounds like an absolute pain especialy since its in an area women dont have control over
You are so right. I was 17 when I had my IUD and the doctor invited students into the room without my consent. One of the most humiliating and painful experiences of my life, I hurt for days.
"Tonsil Guillotine ..... 'the bleeding!" One of my uncles (who I never met) died when he was 5 (before my mom was born) due to a hemmorhage after a tonsilectomy. This was around 1940. Apparently the doctors of the era didn't believe in using cauterization when doing this ill-advised procedure.
Not sure if you meant circa 1940, but in today's world a tonsillectomy is an EXTREMELY routine and very helpful surgery. I got sick at least a few times a year and constantly got ear infections until I I my tonsils and adenoids removed.
@@xOrionNebula2708 got mine removed before I was 3yo It was routine to get an infection every 2 weeks or so.... Glad it's a much safer and simpler procedure now days
@@xOrionNebula2708 oh yea, it definitely sucks real bad for a few days. I think I was laid up in bed for a week and a half or so, but my parents were overly cautious, I was fine after about a week. My cousin got hers done 10years after me though and they burned hers off, she was fine 3 days later, and even THAT was over 10yeads ago. So I'm sure these days it probably takes an hour for the surgery and only the rest of the day to recover lol
My brother was one of those physicists in the room, and wrote the computer code for the machines that take an MRI and then treat with radiation shortly after. He left a pretty cool legacy.
My father started his medical training before they used stainless steel instruments and he kept several of the old chrome instruments. He was a Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, so they are mostly from that speciality, but there are 2-3 obstetric forceps, a female catheter (that is the same diameter as the male bladder probe in this video!!), I have 2-3 ether anaesthetic cages and a couple of other things! I wish I could post pictures here! They're fascinating!
Fun Fact: my mother went to the doctor one time, before I was born, she was asked if she would go into an experimental machine. She said yes, she was the first one to be tested with this machine. Today we call this a C.A.T. scan.
I remember getting shots in school using the injector rather than a needle. Later when I went back to college I had to get all my shots again (ie MREs) because the doctor said "Yeah, that didnt work at all". Great.
I think the smallpox vaccine was actually injected with this gun, at least in Italy. Every person born before the 80s has a round-ish scar on their arm due to this. It worked, as we all know.
@@CrystalTrevi The smallpox one is the one that left a scar but isnt the one that they used the gun on. I was actually allergic to the smallpox one and almost died. I still get every vaccination though
him talking about the dentist office treasure box sparked a core memory for me. When I had my braces at 15-16, after every visit, they had a teenage treasure box that I'd get something from. When I got my braces off, the Dentist got me a nails polish and design set. She always tried to match my braces rubber bands with the nails that I had on that week. She always complimented them so it made me happy to get that as a gift.
I joined the Army in 1991. When it was time to get vaccinations while at Basic Training, there were four doctors / medical personnel in the gymnasium, all with those intramuscular injectors. We stood in line with two doctors on each side shooting us in the arms with those things. The instructions were to not move and do not tense up. Unfortunately, the kid in front of me sneezed at the exact moment the doctor pulled the trigger on the injector. This caused the high PSI stream to tear an 8-inch laceration down his arm all the way to the bone. Through muscle and all like a hot knife cutting through butter. The pain level of an injector wasn't too bad. It burned for a minute at the injection site as a welt formed. We weren't allowed to touch the area at all for some reason. Needless to say, I much prefer regular needles over this any day.
There were probably more injection points besides where the main stream went through. With that being the case, it'd be similar to a tattoo where there are multiple needles. Though microscopic, the injury would be larger than a normal injection, and more likely to be infected. Hands harbor tons of bacterial. Avoiding touching the injection site makes perfect sense. But...yeesh... the kid in front of you. And thanks for your service!!
It had not really changed in 2005. I do not remember how many doctors or nurses but I remember going into a large gymnasium like room and us all just walking in a single filed line thru different "stations" getting different vaccines. I don't know what they were although we did get that Lil yellow vaccination card with the names of the vaccines, it just seemed we got more shots then what was on there. Even the shots on the card were only documented on that card so most ppl ( me included) had to get again at our duty station because we lost the card sometime after basic in AIT.
I feel that in the future, people will look at chemotherapy the way we look at old-school medical devices. Pumping various substances into the body with the hope that it kills cancer faster than it kills you strikes me as barely a step up from letting out "bad humours" so "good" ones can rebalance the body.
"Be thankful we live in today's time" We still removed appendixes unnecessarily until like 2007. We are still correcting and improving our knowledge and medicine. That's what awesome about science.
Nobody is denying that there is still lots of ways to improve, but we already went a huge way compared to 50-100 years ago :) i am really haüpy, that i didnt live there
@@arzuriakuroi5323 Yeah, even 30 years ago. "Back then" we didn't know corticosteriods could have truly devasting effects our basics metabolic functions at even a "medium" dose. I'm glad globalization has brought such a fast growth in our knowledge!
There is actualy still one pacient alive in the world that still needs to spend at least 20h/day in the Iron Lungs device. It was really hard for him to find someone who could actualy make maintenance on it since it's so antique and nobody knew anymore how it specificaly worked.
I know the guy u r talking about, he is a lawyer. When it came to the maintenance of the machine, some tech had to basically reverse engineer the machine and rebuild it.
I joined the Air Force in 1992. When I was in basic training they were still using the auto injector for vaccines. The nurse stood there and we all stepped up and got our injections. We were told don't move and it won't draw blood. Those that moved got a small dot of blood. Not moving it felt like a bee sting. You still massaged it to help with swelling.
It makes sense when you need to give a lot of people some injections. Changing needles takes time, you have to do something with used needles,... So I can see why this machine was made.
What are people in the future going to look back on and say “wow, people really did that?” Imagine how sad Dr. Mike would be if the answer was “chest compressions”. You risked breaking someone’s bones in order to get the heart going? I’m so glad we have AHS, automatic heart start.
@@alegomanYTPsWell, you probably won't find one randomly in a forest (maybe they have them on tourist paths or at the forester's in some place?), probably not in every village as well, so yeah. Unless you have one yourself. Don't they require that someone does CPR between shocks so the person breathes though (or whatever it is for)? So if at some point we'd figure out how to automate that and build it in... Anyway, did I really get what you meant hah.
Chest compressions save lives, if done correctly. My grandfather died due to excessively hard compressions which ended up bursting the heart, but there is no evidence to get him justice, my father and grandmother were sent out of the room, and the camera footage was conveniently ‘lost’. So let the compressions be powerful, but controlled, not reckless.
@@alegomanYTPs Defibrillators don't restart the heart. They just shock an abnormally beating heart back into a normal rhythm. Chest compressions are the best thing we have to keep blood pumping in emergency situations until meds like epinephrine can be given.
Back in the late 1700s, however, doctors literally blew smoke up people’s rectums. Believe it or not, it was a general mainstream medical procedure used to, among many other things, resuscitate people who were otherwise presumed dead. In fact, it was such a commonly used resuscitation method for drowning victims particularly, that the equipment used in this procedure was hung alongside certain major waterways, such as along the River Thames (equipment courtesy of the Royal Humane Society). People frequenting waterways were expected to know the location of this equipment similar to modern times concerning the location of defibrillators.
The smoke enema was literally the precursor to the defibrillator. It was believed that the tobacco would stimulate the heart and get it to pump again. They didn't know about CHEST COMPRESSIONS back then.
As a patient who was intubated and in a coma for nearly 2 months, had a trache and woke up with polyneuropathy I can guarantee that that will be looked back on as barbaric. I knew I was paralyzed but couldn't figure out why. As they moved me up and down off of ecmo my mind incorporated nightmare into reality. I have been working in the medical industry for 10 yrs. I plan the Anaesthetic surgical bookings in 29 hospitals in my city. All this time I've been arranging intubations and traches and CVP's and A-Line. I had no idea what those patients were going through. Very few people in the hospitals do (Doctors, nurses, managers) It's completely insane because on the coma support groups it's entirely common. I'd die before I allowed to be ventilated again. More people should really know.
Did nobody talk to you? Like, doctors or nurses? Idk. I feel like medical professionals should talk to comatose patients about the procedures they're doing on them just in case they can hear them. Maybe that's just me.
@@TrueRival I'm sure they did. My anaesthetist was my boss of 10 yrs and a very kind human being. Unfortunately people don't realize how deeply your surroundings are incorporated.
Being intubated is honestly one of my greatest fears. Imagine being so helpless as to not being able to breath on your own... To me being on life support is just something to prolong dying, you don't even live, you just exist, so it what is the point of it anyway?
@@almogazoulay4454 I mean, to be fair, I did survive. But what they can do is put you on life support while you are conscious. You can literally walk around while on life support. All this time they thought it was better to put a person under but the horrors that you dream up in your mind will always be worse than reality. I was in multiple organ failure, septic, my baby had just died in my arms and had covid and Klebsiella (died and was resuscitated 4 times) And I still would ask to remain conscious on life support if I ever had to do it again.
Is this the same type of intubation than what's performed for COVID patients? If so, we're going to have a crapload of traumatized people everywhere now...
I think that someday, long after cancer is cured, people are gonna look back at chemotherapy and be absolutely horrified and think it's so primitive and barbaric.
I read Roald Dahl's autobiography when I was in the second grade. He described having an adenoidectomy at a young age (I think it was the 1920s). Even 25+ years later that description still haunts me. That they would just cut into a kids mouth and throat without any warning was terrifying to me. It's no wonder kids were afraid of doctors. I'm sure the storys were shared in the school yard.
I saw some sort of documentary about Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union. Supplies were very hard to come by, and this hospital barely had anything, but did its best to still treat patients. Little boy, maybe 8 years old, kept having severe, frequent throat infections. I don't recall if there were antibiotics that he failed, or if there just weren't any antibiotics to try. Poor kid had a tonsillectomy, maybe with that guillotine thing...and he was awake for it (no anesthesia available). It was heartbreaking; poor little guy was pleading to not have the surgery, then blood chilling screams as some strong men held him still and the doctor did the surgery. The surgeon was really skilled; maybe took one minute to get both tonsils, but I'm sure was the worst minute of that kid's life to that point 🥺
Honestly, I'm a surgical instrument reprocessing tech, and I think the reactions you're having now will be had in a couple hundred years over how we do orthopedic surgeries. The surgeon has to be both an artist and a surgeon - especially when doing joint replacements. Looking at the instruments and all the tissue/blood still on them when they come down can make one cringe. Still, I love watching the surgeries on YT, since they improve patient's lives so much. Fun vid. It's always nice to look back and see how far we've come.
In the future, the Cervical Biopsy Punch will definitely be on the list, especially when you consider it's usually performed without anethstesia. Also, mammography machines. Really, probably most current tools and procedures involved in female health.
I had a leep procedure done, they hadn't properly grounded the machine and I performed the exorcist on the table as my body involuntarily convulsed. They stopped for a minute to reconfigure everything than finished the procedure... it was not a fun experience. Do not recommend.
@@dawnjensen6560 My (male) doc with that "just a little pinch" BS!!! I wonder how he'd feel about me kicking him in the b&lls and me telling him "you'll just feel a little pressure".
Dr. Mike pronounced it "brittle" but it's a bridle (sounds like Bridal) like the part of the horse's reins that goes in the mouth and is used to control the direction and speed of the horse. The "Scold's bridle" was used almost exclusively on women. It is in fact a torture device, not a medical device. Although arguably there was a fine line between the two a few hundred years ago.
As an equestrian, I must correct your correction. A headstall is the part that goes around the horses head. It has various straps, like the cheek pieces, the throat latch and the nose band. The bit goes in the mouth. The reins attach to the bit and the rider's hands are used to communicate with the horse through the reins. The whole complex, together, is the bridle. Also, you actually control speed and direction with your body- mostly your legs, seat and core.
😬😬😬😬😬 That tooth puller would be horrifying because you’re awake and it just looks terrifying. I don’t like the dentist but I’m glad they don’t use that
Dentists actually use something similar today. It’s just smaller. Instead of having a long handle, they look like a pair of pliers with the same end that the device in the video has. The biggest difference is that we have anesthesia nowadays lol
I'm assuming that most of these devices would be used on someone who was intoxicated since, before anesthesia, alcohol was frequently used to treat pain.
@@chrisdugas1226 With that type of tooth extraction tool the patient would be positioned with their head between the dentist's legs, looking up, so the dentist could get a good grip on the tooth.
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I love medical history so thank you for this! At 8:54 I recognized that one from vaccinations in the Air Force in 1990's when they herded us through the vaccine line like cattle and didn't clean their instrument- it was just shot after shot. This was back in the early days of the AIDS epidemic. They didn't stop using these until 1997.
Hey, Mike, My grandfather has this idea that modern medicine hasn't cured anything in the last 50 years cause "research companies" don't allow cures cause treatments cost people more money then a cure would. I'd love to see you talk about, things that have been cured in the last 50 years, I've struggled to find things, searching just talks about vaccines. I'd also love to see you talk about why things like, heart disease can't just be cured. Happy for input but keep it nice guys!
Fun fact: Penicillin (the first known antibiotic) was only discovered in 1928 -- less than 100 years ago. Since then it's been a wild time of discovering all sorts of medical cures, and not just for antibiotics. It'd be really cool to see a video about that, good suggestion. As far as finding research / reliable sources - be as specific as possible in search engines. Try searching for a specific disease (chronic or infectious) that has a cure, instead of searching for diseases that have been cured. :)
Apart from vaccines, prosthesis (like artificial heart valves) and antibiotics? There is an endless refinement in treating diseases that goes on all the time. But vaccines curing disease and antiobiotics treating it is still pretty good. Sure,. 50 years now means the 1970s, when most of the infectious childhood diseases were eradicated using vaccines and only survived in pockets of population either too poor or too stupid to use them. But there are a few diseases that have come up since then, vaccinations against the common flu is an ongonig battle that saves thousands of lives every year.
I think you also have to keep in mind that as technology advances, it becomes more difficult to advance further, if that makes sense. The diseases that we have yet to cure are significantly more complicated than the diseases we have previously cured. For example, Cancer. Cancer is super complex because it acts differently for every type of cancer, so there can never be a singular cure for all cancers. However, that doesn't mean there hasn't been advancements in cancer treatment. Nowadays, you have the highest chance of recovering from cancer than ever before. Also, as our diet and lifestyle becomes increasingly more unhealthy, we see more incidence of disease. When we get sick, we want a quick fix from a pill, but that's not necessarily the best option. The diseases that are our top killers (heart disease, cancer, stroke) can be prevented, postponed, or reversed (if caught early enough) by making healthier choices for our bodies.
I actually had one used on me to remove my tonsils some 10 years ago in local anaesthesia. Injection didn't go all the way in so as the doctor was half way through the first tonsil I started to feel everything. I had to be held to the chair as that must have been the worst pain I had ever felt and I started shaking uncontrollably. Couldn't really breathe either, since the blood just filled my throat in a moment. I got an extra shot of anaesthetic in the second tonsil and that one wasn't so bad... frankly nothing is really so bad after that experience :D That's what you get when a hospital is trying to cut the costs on the full anaesthesia I suppose.
Please react to some medical documentaries. It would be fascinating to hear your expert opinion on real life scenarios. A British show called 24 Hours in A&E would be a good choice. Somebody in the comments also suggested a show called Mystery Diagnosis.
Is it just called Surgery where they film surgeries of people and I remember one time the two surgeons where comparing how small they managed to cut their hole😂
As a veterinarian the bordizzo has so many various looks that every time you see a big set of pliers you like is this for castration. Also wires are a debate of can i cut with it or will it snap. Every hardware shop near a large animal vet has had a day when the vet came to ask ehst is th toughest metal wire they have and hot horrified of what we use it for.
Fun fact. My father had a jet injector used on him when he served in the army. He was born in 1939 and served in 1958. He has told me many stories about how much he hated the jet injector.
I honestly do think that at some point, intubation can be a thing of the past. When I had to be intubated, the hospital staff underestimated panic-strength. I look like a twig, but the first night, I snapped the restraints (strips of terry cloth) which were to prevent me from yanking out my IVs and breathing tube. Fortunately, I was unable to yank out the femoral IV and the breathing tube. But it did take four nurses to get me to stop flailing. When I woke up a week later, one nurse said it was hard to get blood glucose readings, since I’d clench my fists super-tight. Just a reaction if getting middle of the night fingersticks my whole life. Super grateful to all doctors and nurses. Especially nurses! They’re the ones who remember you. Saw one of those nurses later at the game shop I work at. “You look great!” “I’m healthy this time.” “I don’t want to see you in the ICU again, okay?” “I plan on staying healthy.”
@@flandrescarlet506 breathing tube and multiple IVs. I was completely sedated for a full week, and that was due to the catastrophic survival mode my body entered when I was unable to afford insulin and decent food. It was just a whole pile of things that went wrong all at once
My dad was subjected to the jet injector when he was in the Army in the 1960s. He told me that sometimes the people administering the injections got the wrong angle and blew off chunks of flesh from people's arms.
What they’re going to look back on 200 years from now is the lack of pain mitigation in women’s healthcare. I have had uterine biopsies with NO numbing agents. IUDs are inserted and removed with NO pain medications. And as a bonus, the fact that many women have to get permission from their husband to get a tubal ligation or hysterectomy. Edited to add: the existence of conversion therapy will probably horrify them, but there aren’t any tools involved, so I wonder if it’ll just get swept under the rug.
Can confirm, IUD insertion was the worst pain I've experienced and women are expected to go through this with no pain management beyond OTC stuff beforehand which is not even commonly recommended or mentioned before the procedure.
And many other countries wouldn’t even consider inserting an IUD without sedation! In the states, “take some advil beforehand.” So helpful. 😑 I’ve had four (third one expelled when I got home and had to have it removed and replaced) and each one was hell to get inserted. Better than natural childbirth, though (I imagine), so I’ll keep getting them until my body no longer requires contraception.
In 50 years we are going to look back at the entire field of gynecology and call it barbaric … seriously I have biopsy’s done every few months with no sedation or pain meds and am told to go back to work… literally end up a week in bed unable to move… worse if it gets infected.
I worked at an 18th-century physician office and apothecary shop, giving presentations about medicine from that time. The only rule was that if you made a visitor throw up, you had to clean it up.
Chemotherapy: yes it works but i get the feeling they will look back and be horrified that we used to flood the body with toxins. Also as someone who had a tooth pulled earlier this year: the tool hasn't changed that much apart from the materials its made from.
These guys are one of the most intelligent people when it comes to medical devices and I'm sitting here as an eighth grader, like: *"HOW DO YOU NOT KNOW GUTENBERG"*
I'm out of school, never went to college but i graduated form highscool and I never learned gutenberg or whatever, and i don't know much about medical devices other than what doctors use nowadays.
My grandad told me that when he was young, people thought his seizures meant that he was possessed by a demon... I mean epilepsy sucks but I’m glad I have it now rather than back then lmao
Yup, my uncle had schizophrenia back in the 50s and it was said he probably sinned and was possessed by the devil. He never received any treatment and unfortunately took his own life
I have epilepsy and the history of the condition is crazy! Most Christian countries believed that epliepsy was a sign of demonic possession and some people with seizure disorders were even sent to asylums. Ancient Rome and Greece believed that you were either possessed by evil spirits or could converse with the gods during seizures. Ancient Islamic physicians were the first to correctly figure out that seizures start in the brain and are not caused by possession at all.
My ex stepfather (aka my abuser's lapdog) once had a seizure in the stairwell to our apartment. Our neighbour (our landlord's wife) tried a makeshift exorcism
I have a surgery scheduled to have my tonsils out. All I keep hearing is how much more painful it is the older you are, and I'm now in my 30s. That last thing gave me a visceral reaction.
This had me dying of laughter! Especially Dr Mike.. "Do... Do they know that the butt is not connected to the lungs?" It was actually one of the earliest forms of CPR in the 18th century. Intra-rectal tobacco insufflation. The heat from the smoke was thought to promote rescuscitation; when used on drowning victims, primarily. Don't ask me how I know this...
I feel like one of the medical practices we do now that will seem barbaric in the future is chemo. You are basically ingesting poison in hopes that it kills the cancer but it also kills good cells too.
Doctors and scientists have been trying (and still do) for YEARS to find a cure for cancer. This is the best option we have rn, so yes, we are ingesting a very powerful drug into the system BUT this drug have saved millions of people around the world. My friend who had cancer said that they would repeat this process if it means they can have their life back. Today thay live happy and healthy
4:08 Fun fact- in the game Legend of Zelda: Majora’s mask, there is a mask similar to this devise Link can obtain called the “All Night” mask. It held the users eyes open to keep them awake and was based off an old torture devise that prevents the user from sleeping. The device the mask as based on (and the mask itself) has a resemblance to the device shown here.
Yeah! The Scold's Bridle was for stopping the wearer of it from talking, not from closing their eyes and sleeping! But yeah, it does kind of look like the All Night Mask in Termina from 'Majora's Mask'! :D
@@anotherenclosedlivingbeing1989 lol! Yeah! I think that 'Majora's Mask' is a scary and spooky 'Legend of Zelda' game, but I don't think that it's the scariest so far! 'Twilight Princess' is also scary and spooky too sometimes! XD
@@megalisa830bright6 I wasn’t saying that the Scold’s Bridle was keeping people’s eyes open, I just wanted to mention it was similar to other torture divides that did keep eyes open. Also, did you know Majora’s Mask is coming to the Nintendo Switch soon?
@@shenanigans256 Ah, I see! XD And yeah, I did know that 'Majora's Mask' is going to be on Nintendo Switch Online! I'm a very big fan of Nintendo, and the 'Super Mario' and 'Legend of Zelda' games! :D
Looking at the iron lungs made me think of Sister Kenny, who developed a very effective treatment for polio victims, using hot cloths and stretching exercises. Alan Alda had polio as a child and his parents took him to one of her clinics. Really interesting story.
We will look back at how we treat women in medicine and be absolutely disgusted with ourselves for never giving women any numbing or pain relief during extremely invasive procedures
Yes! I think being heavily sedated or knocked out for a cervical biopsy should be routine. I can't tell you how glad I am that I ended up having a hysterectomy and will never have to go thru that again.
@@neveragain2421 what on earth do you mean by "not paying for drinks"?? We have to pay for everything buddy, we are people, we don't have it easy. You have never met a woman, have you? Such a mysogynist
there is actually 1 person left on an iron lung. I believe he's still alive, but he's the last. There's an interview with the gentleman on RUclips! Id love to see you do a video on him Edit; his name is Paul Alexander
He could switch to a modern alternative (ie respirator) but chooses not to. Basically, yes, we still have and use iron lungs for lung paralysis, they just look very different and we call them something else.
@@Terahnee I watched a video on this basically the new stuff won’t work for his case the iron lung is the only thing that works apparently if u want u can search it up I forgot everything in the video lol
@@elinbird00 i think the newer ones are designed for earlier stages of polio. He can use the mobile ones but only for very short periods of time. His muscles have decayed too much which is why he has to stay in the iron lung. Its so sad but also inspiring because he lived a full life, becoming a lawyer and helping others
Please bring back Dr. Alok more. Really enjoyed his videos specially that reacting to bollywood stuff too. this is the type of entertainment i LOVE to see
A fairly recent advancement that I personally am very grateful for is ablation therapy. A couple years ago I was diagnosed with Wolf-Parkinson-White, which you can only get by being born with. At first I was resentful that it went undiagnosed until my late 30's, until I realized that if it was diagnosed when I was a kid it would have meant open heart surgery.
There’s a certain small taboo device that was used for treating “hysteria” in women. The device itself is harmless, and wouldn’t be seen as crazy by todays standards, but it’s use back then is certainly… unusual by todays standards. Not sure how the algorithm works so I won’t name the device but I’m sure you can find it online.
ya, I found it interesting that "that device" was not included in the video.. lol. but as you said by today's standards not a big deal anymore. Except that Doctors back in the day, were treating the Hysteria as a medical treatment.
@@Cattrix999 Yeah, and it usually wasn't even hysteria, either. Women came in with legit problems and were brushed off as being hysterical. Not a lot has changed since then, sadly.
I watch several veterinarian shows and I've definitely seen clamp-like tools still used in large animal veterinary work to heal hernias and stuff without stitching. Generally on cattle and horses, since they aren't always easy to keep confined and handle to treat open wounds frequently to reduce infection while a suture site heals. So it's to clamp off excess tissues, which then dies/falls off due to lack of blood supply and the remaining skin heals together leaving no more hole.
Yes all these old devices seem so crazy to us now but we wouldn't have the medical technology that we have today without the trial and error of the past so be grateful to everyone from those times for coming up with some wild ideas!
Pretty sure Chemotherapy will be the thing we will look at and be like: "But this ruined the body too, how could they do that?!" I mean I know it saves lives and stuff. But we will probably have super precise therapy then, so this will look horrible 😅
Back in the fifties they used radiation to cure leukemia. It often worked, but usually killed the patient by destroying the good bone marrow with the cancerous bone marrow. When they do bone marrow transplants today, they do the same thing, but then infuse with donated marrow.
Really good point, when we have gene therapy or better drugs or whatever will reduce the need for such harsh drug and radiation treatments, I'm sure it will looked on as shocking
There's a difference between looking back at cures that literally have no relevance to treating something and sometimes happened to help which is more the fact something else probably helped the person vs something that DOES work but is harsh. They'll look back at how the medicine developed, not think we're crazy for doing such a ridiculous thing
I think people will look back at how we have this conception that periods and childbirth are naturally painful and so nothing should be done for it. I've heard so many stories where women were discouraged from using anti inflammatory medicines for periods and women getting treated like cattle stalk during childbirth even though we have the technology to significantly reduce the pain.
@@foty8679 It will never fail to amaze me that people *elect* to have a c-section. No... just no. Don't come near me with a scalpel unless I'm gonna die.
I recognized that old-school dialysis machine because I saw one in exhibition at an hospital a few years ago. Just imagine being connected to it and watching the rotating drum surface covered in your blood. I probably would faint every time tbh...
I just finished 3 weeks of having two surgical drains in my abdomen to clear the infection caused by my appendix bursting and every single second of it was horrible. That seems like something we'll have a much quicker and less painful and invasive way of treating a few decades from now. At least I sure hope so.
I and all of my classmates were subjected to that mass vaccination device in the late 1960s. It was as scary as it looked, and was traumatizing to boot.
The level of pain I felt while just looking and listening to those instruments is out of the world 😃 I have no idea how you two survived that 😭 hats off to you 😭🧢
Some day, people in the future will see our current medical technology with the same horror that we see technology from centuries ago
It pretty cool to think about it.
Maybe
"They stuck tubes in people's mouths and people's VEINS? Thank god now tubes use bluetooth*
They sliced people open?!
They thought the butt wasn't attached to the lungs?
My mom remembered when x-rays first came out they were used in …get this……shoe stores. Really! You tried on a pair of shoes and put your foot into the machine and then you could see how the fit was. Especially great for parents to see how much room there was for the kids foot to grow.
One of my friends had a relative who became an amputee because of those... too much radiation from constant use of the shoe store x-rays.
Yes. Floroscopes.
I'm 75, when I got new school shoes my feet were put in the x-ray machine. That was a real device.
Wow!!! That is crazy!!! It’s a good thing that there is nothing nowadays that wasn’t in production very long, or understood very well, before mass-production and distribution so that people couldn’t possibly have any adverse effects from it…
I can guarantee, do it a few times and the foot will grow more than the parents expect
i have NEVER felt so grateful about living in today's world. Thanks
putting a blade in a urethra one was just....
Two doctors invented the chainsaw in 1780 to make the removal of pelvic bone easier and less time-consuming during childbirth. It was powered by a hand crank and looked like a modern-day kitchen knife with little teeth on a chain that wound in an oval.
noooooooooooooooooooooooo
i edited my comment and now i lost the like from mike 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
im scared
@@feat.shanika OH MY
aw hell nah ppl are like "I wanna go back to the 1700's when life was so simple." That's a nono, so uh ye no thanks💀💀
My grandmother was dr. Kolff's secretary, she was so proud to have been so close to the development of the first artificial kidney.
that’s really cool
if this is real that is so cool. i hope you ask her to tell you so many surgeries
Dope!
@@mekenna6214 She passed away in 2017. She wrote memoirs that my father (her son) still has.
@@ilya.petersen I’m sorry to hear she passed. That must be amazing though, I’d totally nerd out
I always like to point out that our method for diagnosing people with POTS (Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome) is strapping the person to a table and tilting them up until they pass out (aka the tilt table test) so we’re not entirely past the “torture” phase of medicine yet
😰😰😰
Oh......
@@elafimilo8199 people have different tolerance for experiences. For me, the tilt test was the culmination of two years of misdiagnosis and accusations of hypochondria. The relief of knowing was a huge positive despite the test.
For a friend of mine, it was very different, and the test was just one more terrible in a long string of them.
It mad me so sick I couldn't feel the right half of my body 😓 for hours and was just expect to go home
Yeah... I have one next week. Not gonna be fun
Makes u feel so grateful that u did not live through this time, and at the same time makes you think what the future holds and how relatively better it will be compared to today...
You*
@@Next_World_Order it’s not that important
@@Next_World_Order FYI unnecessary corrections make you the one who looks like an idiot. I mean why? 😬😬
I feel dumber just by responding😂😂
Brajan makes you wonder what stuff from now will be in an episode like this in 100 years. "Back then they just gave kids speed to stop the crazies"
You don’t want to live in old times where you can die from crabs?
I'm considering showing this to my students in my Physics and Human Health elective class.. I think they'll definitely enjoy it!
i wish my teachers would show videos like this! they’re educational and entertaining
Do that it’ll make for a good class
Be prepared for the dr mike fangirls lol
please don't! some of these things are just traumatising to imagine.
In my school we watched a documentary about the medical experiments the nazis did in concentration camps.
because I repeated two classes I had to watch it 3 times. On the third one I just walked of home. Wich lead to some disciplinary consequences at school
and therapeutic treatment afterwards. Beware of your students minds. Give hints but the world is gruesome enough!
Do ittt
My mom, to this day, still has a scar on her arm from getting that weird, pressurized vaccination when she was a little kid. I remember she told me once that it absolutely hurt like crazy! This vid was... Disturbingly fascinating..
My dad told me about when he was in the military and they used it. He said the biggest problem was if somebody moved during it. Oof.
Didn't hurt me at all. However in Japan, these are very common and a kind of dice 🎲 looking scar can form. Almost like braille.
62 yrs old here🙋. Yes I have a cool scar also. Cool as in when I was in grade school we would compare our scars to see who's was the coolest shape
@@juliet5114 I remember when I was in 1st grade, my sister in 2nd (California, 1969). They lined up the entire school in the cafeteria for small pox vaccinations. There we were, shivering and clutching each other, terrified. They moved down the line, shooting each kid in turn. We'd hear a "bang" from the gun then a kid would cry out, and they would move on to the next in line and BANG with another scream... There it was, moving closer and closer to us with the sound of the compressor roaring in our ears. This was how I learned about the inevitability of fate. Oh, and it hurt bad. Unfortunately. my cool scar has all but disappeared.
That may be from the smallpox vaccine because my mother has the same scar from it. The scar has multiple spots all formed into a small circle around the size of an American penny.
*Thing that obviously causes insane amounts of pain*
Dr. Patel: "COOL"
😂🤣
Please stop giving me mean comments. My mother reads the comments I get and she cries a lot because of it. Please be nice, dear l
@@AxxLAfriku yo wtf
@@AxxLAfriku kid who the f are you
Also what time was this at
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I wonder what people will think about today's medical devices in the next 200 years.
I wonder about that too, though I wish the world would still exist in the next 200 years.
@@WeAllDieAnyway maybe it will!
Needles, scalpels, saws? Archaic!
*holds out electronic gizmo*
Surgery would be like a torture method by then
@@the2geniuses214 it probably will
Dr mike and dr. Alok’s accent when impersonating dentists from their respect countries had me literally laughing out loud😂😂 highlight of the video for me
Indians after seeing Dr Alok's name - Hah Mike apna hi aadmi hai.
You want toy
@@potato4439 You want?
time stamp?
Same loll
Someday, people will (hopefully!) look back in horror with some (most) of the "treatments" of autism - ABA, shocking us, etc. I hope we continue to move toward acceptance of differences and someday look at that with the horror it deserves.
My mother has told me stories about when my older brother was in ABA (for autism), how she'd hear him screaming and crying about whatever it was they were making him do. He was like 5-6 years old. It's allegedly gotten better recently though, and my mom's been sending my adopted younger brother to ABA (for FAS). It seems to be going much better for him, thankfully.
I pray that day comes soon
@@emerythegremlin5727 Yeah... what were they doing back then that made kids react that way? I helped out with an ABA clinic and it was "here, let's practice counting, good job, now you can play with the blocks for a minute! Then we can go outside and have a goldfish snack! And then we'll practice sorting pictures to learn object categories, and finally we'll sing some songs and say goodbye!"
ABA has a really good reputation among psychologists these days, but I don't know much about the history. Of course, there are always *really* *dumb* *bad* *people* who make up their own pseudoscience-y ways of doing things, so it's possible some "ABA" clinics were Not Good.
Yeah, they might look back at a defibrillator and think we would torture people
Nobody's conscious when they're being defibrillated. Pacing on the other hand that's a different story
The fact that we do a huge number of gynecological procedures without any anesthesia because “the cervix has not nerve endings” is probably something we will be looking back at with some side eye in the future. At least I hope so.
Naturally someone would pipe up with this.
Pretty much everything to do with women's health checkups/procedures is already barbaric and stuck in the Dark Ages. It's shameful how little empathy and innovation there is, especially given there are so many women in the field.
This this this. my last IUD insertion was rough!
TRUTH !! Women’s health in general. 🙏🙏
Given my last experienc with my EX, ya no it has nerve endings....
There is one man still living in an iron lung. He has a documentary and book. He is really amazing.
I don’t remember the name of the guy who has it but the disease if I remember correctly is called polio
Do you mean Paul?
And he wrote the book while being in an iron lung with his mouth
Which this video has made me realize, why is he still in that when they have portable ones?
@@trexmaniac4 I think that they cannot safely remove the device out of his body any more. Besides, maybe all his limbs cannot function normally at all, so there no point changing the state of him being attached to that device
“Dude do you see what I’m saying”
“No no I dont and I don’t really want too”
Has me dead 😭😂😂
I am SOOOOO glad my OB doctor does local anesthesia for: IUDs and implants!!!!!! Hopefully we will see more doctors utilizing something, because I hear placing IUD's are actually painful.
Lol, mine wouldn't even give me local for a biopsy. I have an absurdly high pain tolerance, though, and IUDs still freak me out.
I had a cervical block when I got my IUD inserted. Frankly it took 76% of the pain away but it was still rather noticeable. Tbh it’s a cervix and it is nerve covered so I wasn’t looking for 100% pain free so I guess hell ye
@@theedmee on the the pain threshold, I unfortunately have a very low pain threshold and it weirdly takes a lot to numb me up. I also have fibromyalgia, which makes ANY procedure that much more difficult to navigate. 9/10 I must be either put completely out or have someone on stand by to catch my randomly thrashing limbs (especially my legs). Pain may help people discover their limits but goddamn.
I went through two cervical biopsies without anything, and they were excruciating. When I had to have a third colposcopy, I told him no, I wouldn't do it without being sedated or something to block pain. But thankfully, they reassured me that there wasn't going to be a biopsy with that one. I just know I _refuse_ to get another cervical biopsy without some sort of numbing, a local, a block, sedation, something. They're traumatizing.
It is literal *torture* without anesthesia!
If anybody does it to you without pakn management...I would do a complaint and sue.
It sounds really morbid, but I think it'd be pretty cool for you to react to full on torture devices and talk about how much damage they would have done.
yes
Ik im a few months late but I agree
Same
@@JamesBond-wb4ic Hello mr 007
@@foodofthegodsincense to kill
I hope we look back at doing the iud insertion procedure without sedation, or pain killers to women, and realize how awful that is. Specially women that haven’t had children or have endometriosis like myself. It’s wildly talked about from women that it is excruciating and hurt for many days.
but cant you take the pain medication yourself on the other hand it sounds like an absolute pain especialy since its in an area women dont have control over
I've thought that so many times! How can we not sedate locally I don't get it
@@kratosorokai1546 You can, but it's like the worst cramps of all time and your over the counter advil doesn't do much for it
@@estelle573 because a lot of doctors still don't believe when women say they are in pain 😭
You are so right. I was 17 when I had my IUD and the doctor invited students into the room without my consent. One of the most humiliating and painful experiences of my life, I hurt for days.
"Tonsil Guillotine ..... 'the bleeding!"
One of my uncles (who I never met) died when he was 5 (before my mom was born) due to a hemmorhage after a tonsilectomy. This was around 1940.
Apparently the doctors of the era didn't believe in using cauterization when doing this ill-advised procedure.
Not sure if you meant circa 1940, but in today's world a tonsillectomy is an EXTREMELY routine and very helpful surgery. I got sick at least a few times a year and constantly got ear infections until I I my tonsils and adenoids removed.
@@jobieheiser443 i got them removed as well when i was a kid worst sore throat in a thousand years
@@xOrionNebula2708 got mine removed before I was 3yo
It was routine to get an infection every 2 weeks or so....
Glad it's a much safer and simpler procedure now days
@@xOrionNebula2708 oh yea, it definitely sucks real bad for a few days. I think I was laid up in bed for a week and a half or so, but my parents were overly cautious, I was fine after about a week. My cousin got hers done 10years after me though and they burned hers off, she was fine 3 days later, and even THAT was over 10yeads ago. So I'm sure these days it probably takes an hour for the surgery and only the rest of the day to recover lol
Tonsillectomy in adults still carries the risk of hemorrhage just because there are so many blood vessels close to he throat
My brother was one of those physicists in the room, and wrote the computer code for the machines that take an MRI and then treat with radiation shortly after. He left a pretty cool legacy.
My father started his medical training before they used stainless steel instruments and he kept several of the old chrome instruments. He was a Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, so they are mostly from that speciality, but there are 2-3 obstetric forceps, a female catheter (that is the same diameter as the male bladder probe in this video!!), I have 2-3 ether anaesthetic cages and a couple of other things! I wish I could post pictures here! They're fascinating!
Wow
Woah
U could post em on any image hosting site and send us a link, it would be amazing to look at those instruments!!
Post them on Reddit and share a link pls
Via Instagram?
Fun Fact: my mother went to the doctor one time, before I was born, she was asked if she would go into an experimental machine. She said yes, she was the first one to be tested with this machine. Today we call this a C.A.T. scan.
That's purrfect
do you have purrf?
Wow, your mother is a part of history! It counts- right?
@@standingjacky2965 I can't believe it took me three seconds to get the joke. I'm so slow! 😄
:O
I remember getting shots in school using the injector rather than a needle. Later when I went back to college I had to get all my shots again (ie MREs) because the doctor said "Yeah, that didnt work at all". Great.
I think the smallpox vaccine was actually injected with this gun, at least in Italy. Every person born before the 80s has a round-ish scar on their arm due to this. It worked, as we all know.
Is that the one that left a scar?
@@CrystalTrevi The smallpox one is the one that left a scar but isnt the one that they used the gun on. I was actually allergic to the smallpox one and almost died. I still get every vaccination though
him talking about the dentist office treasure box sparked a core memory for me. When I had my braces at 15-16, after every visit, they had a teenage treasure box that I'd get something from. When I got my braces off, the Dentist got me a nails polish and design set. She always tried to match my braces rubber bands with the nails that I had on that week. She always complimented them so it made me happy to get that as a gift.
I joined the Army in 1991. When it was time to get vaccinations while at Basic Training, there were four doctors / medical personnel in the gymnasium, all with those intramuscular injectors. We stood in line with two doctors on each side shooting us in the arms with those things. The instructions were to not move and do not tense up. Unfortunately, the kid in front of me sneezed at the exact moment the doctor pulled the trigger on the injector. This caused the high PSI stream to tear an 8-inch laceration down his arm all the way to the bone. Through muscle and all like a hot knife cutting through butter. The pain level of an injector wasn't too bad. It burned for a minute at the injection site as a welt formed. We weren't allowed to touch the area at all for some reason. Needless to say, I much prefer regular needles over this any day.
There were probably more injection points besides where the main stream went through. With that being the case, it'd be similar to a tattoo where there are multiple needles. Though microscopic, the injury would be larger than a normal injection, and more likely to be infected. Hands harbor tons of bacterial. Avoiding touching the injection site makes perfect sense.
But...yeesh... the kid in front of you. And thanks for your service!!
It had not really changed in 2005. I do not remember how many doctors or nurses but I remember going into a large gymnasium like room and us all just walking in a single filed line thru different "stations" getting different vaccines. I don't know what they were although we did get that Lil yellow vaccination card with the names of the vaccines, it just seemed we got more shots then what was on there. Even the shots on the card were only documented on that card so most ppl ( me included) had to get again at our duty station because we lost the card sometime after basic in AIT.
My husband had his shots in the army in 1966 this way. If they bled from the shot, they had to do pushups. They would bleed if they jerked.
Went through the vaccine assembly line for basic in 2015. They just take your card and jab you as you go. The peanut butter shot is now a pill though.
THATS TERRIFYING.
The Synergy between them is amazing
I feel that in the future, people will look at chemotherapy the way we look at old-school medical devices. Pumping various substances into the body with the hope that it kills cancer faster than it kills you strikes me as barely a step up from letting out "bad humours" so "good" ones can rebalance the body.
Agree!
FACTS we need some development in that area
I totally agree
For sure
that was my first thought
Dang, I wish I had had Dr Patel as my pediatrician! He's also a wonderful addition to the channel!❤😂
"Be thankful we live in today's time"
We still removed appendixes unnecessarily until like 2007. We are still correcting and improving our knowledge and medicine. That's what awesome about science.
Nobody is denying that there is still lots of ways to improve, but we already went a huge way compared to 50-100 years ago :) i am really haüpy, that i didnt live there
@@arzuriakuroi5323 Yeah, even 30 years ago. "Back then" we didn't know corticosteriods could have truly devasting effects our basics metabolic functions at even a "medium" dose. I'm glad globalization has brought such a fast growth in our knowledge!
The Rinne and Weber tests looks like an actual medieval torture device ngl
Yea
You are here again....im early
How are you just omnipresent?
Hello there
IM HERE >:D
There is actualy still one pacient alive in the world that still needs to spend at least 20h/day in the Iron Lungs device.
It was really hard for him to find someone who could actualy make maintenance on it since it's so antique and nobody knew anymore how it specificaly worked.
I remember watching a video of this, and he finally found someone who did research on the machine for him and was able to fix it. I was so relieved.
I know the guy u r talking about, he is a lawyer. When it came to the maintenance of the machine, some tech had to basically reverse engineer the machine and rebuild it.
but why did he have to use the iron lungs device in this age??
@@N12S10S but what else could modern medicine offer him?
@@jskratnyarlathotep8411 intubation is the only thing i can think of that could help him. Between the two, i know which one i’d pick
I joined the Air Force in 1992. When I was in basic training they were still using the auto injector for vaccines. The nurse stood there and we all stepped up and got our injections. We were told don't move and it won't draw blood. Those that moved got a small dot of blood. Not moving it felt like a bee sting. You still massaged it to help with swelling.
The same for the Army National Guard in 1996.
Yep same for Active Army 1992 😂
It makes sense when you need to give a lot of people some injections. Changing needles takes time, you have to do something with used needles,... So I can see why this machine was made.
What's even worse is that there weren't any anaesthetics... Didn't they also originally make chainsaws to help women give birth??
What 😮😰
Yep! I watched that episode of QI!
Yeah they would like use the chainsaws to make more room for the baby to come out I think……..
If thats true I'm at a loss for words...maybe I need to bring on a medical historian
@@TheHomerowKeys Same. QI is also how I knew what those bellows were for, lol. Truly an educational program xD
What are people in the future going to look back on and say “wow, people really did that?” Imagine how sad Dr. Mike would be if the answer was “chest compressions”.
You risked breaking someone’s bones in order to get the heart going? I’m so glad we have AHS, automatic heart start.
uhmmm yeah... defibs.........they're around every corner now lol
@@alegomanYTPsWell, you probably won't find one randomly in a forest (maybe they have them on tourist paths or at the forester's in some place?), probably not in every village as well, so yeah. Unless you have one yourself.
Don't they require that someone does CPR between shocks so the person breathes though (or whatever it is for)? So if at some point we'd figure out how to automate that and build it in...
Anyway, did I really get what you meant hah.
@@siliconsulfide8 perhaps if we made them a lot smaller or portable, like epipens or something.
Chest compressions save lives, if done correctly. My grandfather died due to excessively hard compressions which ended up bursting the heart, but there is no evidence to get him justice, my father and grandmother were sent out of the room, and the camera footage was conveniently ‘lost’. So let the compressions be powerful, but controlled, not reckless.
@@alegomanYTPs Defibrillators don't restart the heart. They just shock an abnormally beating heart back into a normal rhythm. Chest compressions are the best thing we have to keep blood pumping in emergency situations until meds like epinephrine can be given.
Back in the late 1700s, however, doctors literally blew smoke up people’s rectums. Believe it or not, it was a general mainstream medical procedure used to, among many other things, resuscitate people who were otherwise presumed dead. In fact, it was such a commonly used resuscitation method for drowning victims particularly, that the equipment used in this procedure was hung alongside certain major waterways, such as along the River Thames (equipment courtesy of the Royal Humane Society). People frequenting waterways were expected to know the location of this equipment similar to modern times concerning the location of defibrillators.
The smoke enema was literally the precursor to the defibrillator. It was believed that the tobacco would stimulate the heart and get it to pump again. They didn't know about CHEST COMPRESSIONS back then.
Did... Did it actually work??
@@Alyy_Cat Smoke enemas were as successful as trying to resuscitate a drowned person by rubbing sage essential oil on their third chakra.
@@Alyy_Cat Doubtful. Haven't you ever heard the phrase "blowing smoke up his @$$" to refer to someone bs-ing someone else?
I was gonna say the same thing.
2:42 is this where the phrase “don’t blow smoke up my a$$!” came from?! 😂
IIRC It went from this (the video) to being used to revive drowned people to todays saying.
@@thumbsarehandy............🤢 Lol
@@thumbsarehandy. it sure did. the heroic era of medicine was a wild time
I'm so glad I'm not the only who knew this!!
As a patient who was intubated and in a coma for nearly 2 months, had a trache and woke up with polyneuropathy I can guarantee that that will be looked back on as barbaric.
I knew I was paralyzed but couldn't figure out why. As they moved me up and down off of ecmo my mind incorporated nightmare into reality.
I have been working in the medical industry for 10 yrs.
I plan the Anaesthetic surgical bookings in 29 hospitals in my city.
All this time I've been arranging intubations and traches and CVP's and A-Line. I had no idea what those patients were going through.
Very few people in the hospitals do (Doctors, nurses, managers)
It's completely insane because on the coma support groups it's entirely common.
I'd die before I allowed to be ventilated again. More people should really know.
Did nobody talk to you? Like, doctors or nurses? Idk. I feel like medical professionals should talk to comatose patients about the procedures they're doing on them just in case they can hear them. Maybe that's just me.
@@TrueRival
I'm sure they did. My anaesthetist was my boss of 10 yrs and a very kind human being. Unfortunately people don't realize how deeply your surroundings are incorporated.
Being intubated is honestly one of my greatest fears. Imagine being so helpless as to not being able to breath on your own... To me being on life support is just something to prolong dying, you don't even live, you just exist, so it what is the point of it anyway?
@@almogazoulay4454
I mean, to be fair, I did survive.
But what they can do is put you on life support while you are conscious.
You can literally walk around while on life support.
All this time they thought it was better to put a person under but the horrors that you dream up in your mind will always be worse than reality.
I was in multiple organ failure, septic, my baby had just died in my arms and had covid and Klebsiella (died and was resuscitated 4 times)
And I still would ask to remain conscious on life support if I ever had to do it again.
Is this the same type of intubation than what's performed for COVID patients? If so, we're going to have a crapload of traumatized people everywhere now...
I think that someday, long after cancer is cured, people are gonna look back at chemotherapy and be absolutely horrified and think it's so primitive and barbaric.
“We used to irradiate ourselves and hope the cancer died before we did”
Not to mention cutting out huge hunks of our bodies or whole breasts just to get rid of a cancer site.
We should always be grateful if that ever happened.
I think we *already* think it's primitive and barbaric...the problem is we have no better alternatives yet!;-(
We've (ppl in the oncology field) have been saying this for the past 5 years. Biological and immunotherapy are on their way to replace chemo.
I read Roald Dahl's autobiography when I was in the second grade. He described having an adenoidectomy at a young age (I think it was the 1920s). Even 25+ years later that description still haunts me. That they would just cut into a kids mouth and throat without any warning was terrifying to me. It's no wonder kids were afraid of doctors. I'm sure the storys were shared in the school yard.
which one did you read? I read one also but it must have been the kid friendly one
I saw some sort of documentary about Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union. Supplies were very hard to come by, and this hospital barely had anything, but did its best to still treat patients. Little boy, maybe 8 years old, kept having severe, frequent throat infections. I don't recall if there were antibiotics that he failed, or if there just weren't any antibiotics to try. Poor kid had a tonsillectomy, maybe with that guillotine thing...and he was awake for it (no anesthesia available). It was heartbreaking; poor little guy was pleading to not have the surgery, then blood chilling screams as some strong men held him still and the doctor did the surgery. The surgeon was really skilled; maybe took one minute to get both tonsils, but I'm sure was the worst minute of that kid's life to that point 🥺
Oh gosh I think I read something similar but I don't remember from where
It is from his autobiography, Boy
That's exactly where my brain went with the tonsil guillotine! That story was harrowing
Love the effects on part where one says "How many possibilities", it's like straight up scene of some torture scene xD
Honestly, I'm a surgical instrument reprocessing tech, and I think the reactions you're having now will be had in a couple hundred years over how we do orthopedic surgeries. The surgeon has to be both an artist and a surgeon - especially when doing joint replacements. Looking at the instruments and all the tissue/blood still on them when they come down can make one cringe. Still, I love watching the surgeries on YT, since they improve patient's lives so much. Fun vid. It's always nice to look back and see how far we've come.
Artist and Surgeon? More like Carpenter and Surgeon.
Yes! I had an external fixator on my wrist and forearm for two months this summer. I'm grateful to my ortho. seurgeon, but that thing looked medieval!
In the future, the Cervical Biopsy Punch will definitely be on the list, especially when you consider it's usually performed without anethstesia. Also, mammography machines.
Really, probably most current tools and procedures involved in female health.
Yes! The cervical biopsy without anesthesia is cruel. It is soooo painful, and it's cruel for a doc to say it's just a little pinch.
@@gingerwinechester5520 had a male doctor say that it’s just a little pinch. I asked him how the hell did he know.
I had a leep procedure done, they hadn't properly grounded the machine and I performed the exorcist on the table as my body involuntarily convulsed. They stopped for a minute to reconfigure everything than finished the procedure... it was not a fun experience. Do not recommend.
@@weirdral what’s a leep procedure?
@@dawnjensen6560 My (male) doc with that "just a little pinch" BS!!! I wonder how he'd feel about me kicking him in the b&lls and me telling him "you'll just feel a little pressure".
Dr. Mike pronounced it "brittle" but it's a bridle (sounds like Bridal) like the part of the horse's reins that goes in the mouth and is used to control the direction and speed of the horse. The "Scold's bridle" was used almost exclusively on women. It is in fact a torture device, not a medical device. Although arguably there was a fine line between the two a few hundred years ago.
Hi Caren
As an equestrian, I must correct your correction. A headstall is the part that goes around the horses head. It has various straps, like the cheek pieces, the throat latch and the nose band. The bit goes in the mouth. The reins attach to the bit and the rider's hands are used to communicate with the horse through the reins. The whole complex, together, is the bridle. Also, you actually control speed and direction with your body- mostly your legs, seat and core.
it's terrible that they had to use that kind of thing on people back then WHY!?
@@MsCruisein Lol, yes, I forgot all my bridle and riding facts long ago, and failed to check my facts. Cheers, thanks!
@@jocelynecupcake They didn't HAVE to, it was a punishment. Because as horrible and barbaric as people can be, they used to be worse.
the device for papshmires, and honestly just gynological practices are so insane, currently and historically... its insane
Whoa!!! It’s hard to imagine how many people, thoughts, creativity and trial/error we have gone through history to get to this point today. Amazing.
Im confused on why do you need to remove the uvula using the tonsil guillotine back then?
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That tooth puller would be horrifying because you’re awake and it just looks terrifying. I don’t like the dentist but I’m glad they don’t use that
Dentists actually use something similar today. It’s just smaller. Instead of having a long handle, they look like a pair of pliers with the same end that the device in the video has. The biggest difference is that we have anesthesia nowadays lol
I'm assuming that most of these devices would be used on someone who was intoxicated since, before anesthesia, alcohol was frequently used to treat pain.
@@chrisdugas1226 With that type of tooth extraction tool the patient would be positioned with their head between the dentist's legs, looking up, so the dentist could get a good grip on the tooth.
@@sparkysummons4454 hahaha yeah, I’m glad we have anesthesia, otherwise I’d never go to the dentist and end up with George Washington teeth 😂
Anesthesia and pain relief is the best medical discovery ever 🙏
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I love medical history so thank you for this!
At 8:54 I recognized that one from vaccinations in the Air Force in 1990's when they herded us through the vaccine line like cattle and didn't clean their instrument- it was just shot after shot. This was back in the early days of the AIDS epidemic. They didn't stop using these until 1997.
People who say “omg I was born in the wrong generation” tend to forget about our medical advancements 😅😂
I’m usually referring to should’ve been born in the future because I know the past was a dumpster fire 😹
Unrelated, I know but; The future is going to be a massive dumpsterfire in the coming years and so on for American, or what used to be.
I actually would have preferred to be born when regenerative nanobots exist, but I settle with anesthesia.
Because as you know this is the future
By the way we all currently in the present which also the future from a second ago.
I'm pretty healthy. Haven't needed any major surgery
Hey, Mike, My grandfather has this idea that modern medicine hasn't cured anything in the last 50 years cause "research companies" don't allow cures cause treatments cost people more money then a cure would. I'd love to see you talk about, things that have been cured in the last 50 years, I've struggled to find things, searching just talks about vaccines. I'd also love to see you talk about why things like, heart disease can't just be cured.
Happy for input but keep it nice guys!
Fun fact: Penicillin (the first known antibiotic) was only discovered in 1928 -- less than 100 years ago. Since then it's been a wild time of discovering all sorts of medical cures, and not just for antibiotics. It'd be really cool to see a video about that, good suggestion.
As far as finding research / reliable sources - be as specific as possible in search engines. Try searching for a specific disease (chronic or infectious) that has a cure, instead of searching for diseases that have been cured. :)
this probably only applies to big pharma (I would put pfizer in that class, but
they may have actually created something useful this last year
Apart from vaccines, prosthesis (like artificial heart valves) and antibiotics?
There is an endless refinement in treating diseases that goes on all the time.
But vaccines curing disease and antiobiotics treating it is still pretty good.
Sure,. 50 years now means the 1970s, when most of the infectious childhood diseases were eradicated using vaccines and only survived in pockets of population either too poor or too stupid to use them. But there are a few diseases that have come up since then, vaccinations against the common flu is an ongonig battle that saves thousands of lives every year.
I think you also have to keep in mind that as technology advances, it becomes more difficult to advance further, if that makes sense. The diseases that we have yet to cure are significantly more complicated than the diseases we have previously cured. For example, Cancer. Cancer is super complex because it acts differently for every type of cancer, so there can never be a singular cure for all cancers. However, that doesn't mean there hasn't been advancements in cancer treatment. Nowadays, you have the highest chance of recovering from cancer than ever before.
Also, as our diet and lifestyle becomes increasingly more unhealthy, we see more incidence of disease. When we get sick, we want a quick fix from a pill, but that's not necessarily the best option. The diseases that are our top killers (heart disease, cancer, stroke) can be prevented, postponed, or reversed (if caught early enough) by making healthier choices for our bodies.
Maybe look for how many things were cured over 50 years ago for a standard to compare to.
So grateful for plastic. All the iron things look so terrifying
I can’t get over the fact that a tonsil guillotine was a real thing….😨
Same, that one kept me up at night!
No it didn't
Jk
But can we make it better now.
I actually had one used on me to remove my tonsils some 10 years ago in local anaesthesia. Injection didn't go all the way in so as the doctor was half way through the first tonsil I started to feel everything. I had to be held to the chair as that must have been the worst pain I had ever felt and I started shaking uncontrollably. Couldn't really breathe either, since the blood just filled my throat in a moment. I got an extra shot of anaesthetic in the second tonsil and that one wasn't so bad... frankly nothing is really so bad after that experience :D That's what you get when a hospital is trying to cut the costs on the full anaesthesia I suppose.
I loved homie just going “cool…” after the power dropped. Haha
Lol agree
Just perfect
He wasn't even like judging or anything because it's so common in south Asian countries 😂😂💔
@@ifrat9742 seems more like his personality than his culture. I grew up in a 3rd world but I get pissed when the lights go out
Ok are we just gonna ignore the cute pillow that literally has Dr. Mike's photo on. Its so cute, tbh I want one with Bear's face on it!
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I’m the one who sent the pillow in earlier this year! The other side of the pillow has Bear on it. So glad the pillow is actually being used☺️
That's really wholesome.
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1:37 THATS SOME ATTACK ON TITAN BLADE ODM GEAR
Please react to some medical documentaries. It would be fascinating to hear your expert opinion on real life scenarios. A British show called 24 Hours in A&E would be a good choice. Somebody in the comments also suggested a show called Mystery Diagnosis.
yeessss!
It might be happening lmao
Is it just called Surgery where they film surgeries of people and I remember one time the two surgeons where comparing how small they managed to cut their hole😂
I fully support this comment. That and " ambulance" which follows paramedics in the UK.
I want him to watch Mystery Diagnosis some time :(
“Is that a castrator” is the most terrifying question you could possibly ask
As a veterinarian the bordizzo has so many various looks that every time you see a big set of pliers you like is this for castration. Also wires are a debate of can i cut with it or will it snap. Every hardware shop near a large animal vet has had a day when the vet came to ask ehst is th toughest metal wire they have and hot horrified of what we use it for.
Fun fact. My father had a jet injector used on him when he served in the army. He was born in 1939 and served in 1958. He has told me many stories about how much he hated the jet injector.
Just rewatched this. You definitely need Dr.Alok back at some point :)
"Doctor, I feel hot and dizzy, and my side hurts."
"You have ghosts in your blood, take some cocaine."
Lmfao
BAHAHA WHAT
WHEEEZE
😶😑😶
*SNORT*
This was hard to watch 😩 just could imagine the horrible pain these patients had gone through 🤯😬.
I honestly do think that at some point, intubation can be a thing of the past. When I had to be intubated, the hospital staff underestimated panic-strength. I look like a twig, but the first night, I snapped the restraints (strips of terry cloth) which were to prevent me from yanking out my IVs and breathing tube. Fortunately, I was unable to yank out the femoral IV and the breathing tube. But it did take four nurses to get me to stop flailing. When I woke up a week later, one nurse said it was hard to get blood glucose readings, since I’d clench my fists super-tight. Just a reaction if getting middle of the night fingersticks my whole life.
Super grateful to all doctors and nurses. Especially nurses! They’re the ones who remember you. Saw one of those nurses later at the game shop I work at. “You look great!” “I’m healthy this time.” “I don’t want to see you in the ICU again, okay?” “I plan on staying healthy.”
Why were you restrained? Did they not tell you what was going on before you were intubated?
@@flandrescarlet506 breathing tube and multiple IVs. I was completely sedated for a full week, and that was due to the catastrophic survival mode my body entered when I was unable to afford insulin and decent food. It was just a whole pile of things that went wrong all at once
@@icarusbinns3156 Oh goodness, I'm sorry to hear that
@@icarusbinns3156 😬
@@NotNochos at least I’m alive to share the tale
bro i just found this video i know its made like a year ago but i just wanna say you guys give the exact same vibe and i love it
Dr. Mike and Dr. Alok should do more collaborations. This was kinda funny, but mostly terrifying. Bravo!
I loved this guy, please have him as a guest again. His reactions were literally how I would act: “so many possibilities” “cool” 😂
My dad was subjected to the jet injector when he was in the Army in the 1960s. He told me that sometimes the people administering the injections got the wrong angle and blew off chunks of flesh from people's arms.
"Did they know the butt is not connected to the lungs?"
I'm dying over here 🤣😂🤣😂
😂🤣🤣
Then you would breath farts
What they’re going to look back on 200 years from now is the lack of pain mitigation in women’s healthcare. I have had uterine biopsies with NO numbing agents. IUDs are inserted and removed with NO pain medications.
And as a bonus, the fact that many women have to get permission from their husband to get a tubal ligation or hysterectomy.
Edited to add: the existence of conversion therapy will probably horrify them, but there aren’t any tools involved, so I wonder if it’ll just get swept under the rug.
That's bad
Can confirm, IUD insertion was the worst pain I've experienced and women are expected to go through this with no pain management beyond OTC stuff beforehand which is not even commonly recommended or mentioned before the procedure.
They better use at least SOME lube for the insertion, RIGHT!?
And many other countries wouldn’t even consider inserting an IUD without sedation! In the states, “take some advil beforehand.” So helpful. 😑 I’ve had four (third one expelled when I got home and had to have it removed and replaced) and each one was hell to get inserted. Better than natural childbirth, though (I imagine), so I’ll keep getting them until my body no longer requires contraception.
Oh so true. Everything in a woman's life supposedly gotta hurt for some reason. Periods, sex, pregnancy, childbirth, life in general ughhh
In 50 years we are going to look back at the entire field of gynecology and call it barbaric … seriously I have biopsy’s done every few months with no sedation or pain meds and am told to go back to work… literally end up a week in bed unable to move… worse if it gets infected.
I'm not convinced. I hope I'm wrong but I wouldn't be surprised if women's pain is still dismissed in the future 🙄
@@AirQuotesIt will improve over time I am sure
ok i have a trick for doctors that dismiss you being in pain. make a huuuuuuuuge fuss about it like youre dying from pain and they will help😔
I really want to agree with you but I’m dangerously low on hope right now.
@@annipsy2185 nope won't work. You'd just get told you're overreacting and that women are hysterical most likely 💀
I worked at an 18th-century physician office and apothecary shop, giving presentations about medicine from that time. The only rule was that if you made a visitor throw up, you had to clean it up.
Love to see collabs. The energy is always good.
Chemotherapy: yes it works but i get the feeling they will look back and be horrified that we used to flood the body with toxins.
Also as someone who had a tooth pulled earlier this year: the tool hasn't changed that much apart from the materials its made from.
Please do more videos with Dr. Patel! 🙏 Favorite guest so far! You both had the same energy. It was a lot of fun to watch!
Omg I love Dr. Alok and you, u guys make such a nice charismatic duo ;D
These guys are one of the most intelligent people when it comes to medical devices and I'm sitting here as an eighth grader, like:
*"HOW DO YOU NOT KNOW GUTENBERG"*
It's been longer since they've heard his name. Lol.
You will not remember anything from 8th grade by the time you're 30, trust.
@@devent10n Facts
I'm out of school, never went to college but i graduated form highscool and I never learned gutenberg or whatever, and i don't know much about medical devices other than what doctors use nowadays.
@@devent10n you won't remember anything you learn in 8th grade when you go to 9th grade LOL and by 30 what do you even remember learning in school?
“Appreciate that you don’t have the tonsil guillotine now” is something I didn’t expect to hear today but man I do appreciate it
Yeah, my daughter is going to get her tonsils out. I am really glad tonsil guillotine is no longer a thing...
My grandad told me that when he was young, people thought his seizures meant that he was possessed by a demon... I mean epilepsy sucks but I’m glad I have it now rather than back then lmao
Hi Freya
I know ppl who still think that
Yup, my uncle had schizophrenia back in the 50s and it was said he probably sinned and was possessed by the devil. He never received any treatment and unfortunately took his own life
I have epilepsy and the history of the condition is crazy! Most Christian countries believed that epliepsy was a sign of demonic possession and some people with seizure disorders were even sent to asylums. Ancient Rome and Greece believed that you were either possessed by evil spirits or could converse with the gods during seizures. Ancient Islamic physicians were the first to correctly figure out that seizures start in the brain and are not caused by possession at all.
My ex stepfather (aka my abuser's lapdog) once had a seizure in the stairwell to our apartment. Our neighbour (our landlord's wife) tried a makeshift exorcism
I have a surgery scheduled to have my tonsils out. All I keep hearing is how much more painful it is the older you are, and I'm now in my 30s. That last thing gave me a visceral reaction.
This had me dying of laughter! Especially Dr Mike.. "Do... Do they know that the butt is not connected to the lungs?"
It was actually one of the earliest forms of CPR in the 18th century. Intra-rectal tobacco insufflation. The heat from the smoke was thought to promote rescuscitation; when used on drowning victims, primarily.
Don't ask me how I know this...
QI brought this up once, at least this is how I know it
I read about this in a book called Quackery.
How do you know this?
XD
I feel like one of the medical practices we do now that will seem barbaric in the future is chemo. You are basically ingesting poison in hopes that it kills the cancer but it also kills good cells too.
Doctors and scientists have been trying (and still do) for YEARS to find a cure for cancer.
This is the best option we have rn, so yes, we are ingesting a very powerful drug into the system BUT this drug have saved millions of people around the world.
My friend who had cancer said that they would repeat this process if it means they can have their life back.
Today thay live happy and healthy
@@מורדגן-ד2פ Oh no doubt. I just meant in the future after medical advances it will seem barbaric. My father died of cancer so I understand how it is.
4:08 Fun fact- in the game Legend of Zelda: Majora’s mask, there is a mask similar to this devise Link can obtain called the “All Night” mask. It held the users eyes open to keep them awake and was based off an old torture devise that prevents the user from sleeping. The device the mask as based on (and the mask itself) has a resemblance to the device shown here.
Wow!! I didn’t know about that :0 another reason why majora’s mask is the most dark legend of zelda game
Yeah! The Scold's Bridle was for stopping the wearer of it from talking, not from closing their eyes and sleeping! But yeah, it does kind of look like the All Night Mask in Termina from 'Majora's Mask'! :D
@@anotherenclosedlivingbeing1989 lol! Yeah! I think that 'Majora's Mask' is a scary and spooky 'Legend of Zelda' game, but I don't think that it's the scariest so far! 'Twilight Princess' is also scary and spooky too sometimes! XD
@@megalisa830bright6 I wasn’t saying that the Scold’s Bridle was keeping people’s eyes open, I just wanted to mention it was similar to other torture divides that did keep eyes open. Also, did you know Majora’s Mask is coming to the Nintendo Switch soon?
@@shenanigans256 Ah, I see! XD And yeah, I did know that 'Majora's Mask' is going to be on Nintendo Switch Online! I'm a very big fan of Nintendo, and the 'Super Mario' and 'Legend of Zelda' games! :D
Looking at the iron lungs made me think of Sister Kenny, who developed a very effective treatment for polio victims, using hot cloths and stretching exercises. Alan Alda had polio as a child and his parents took him to one of her clinics. Really interesting story.
IS NOBODY GOING TO TALK ABOUT HOW HIS SCRUB TOP SAYS “PUBLIC HEALTH HYPEMAN” LMAOOOOO
HAGAHAHAHAH
I scoured the internet trying to figure out what public health doctor he was because I couldn’t read the end of hypeman! 🤣
HELP
We will look back at how we treat women in medicine and be absolutely disgusted with ourselves for never giving women any numbing or pain relief during extremely invasive procedures
Yes! I think being heavily sedated or knocked out for a cervical biopsy should be routine. I can't tell you how glad I am that I ended up having a hysterectomy and will never have to go thru that again.
Women have it good. You get to go into clubs for free and never pay for drinks. Stop complaining
@@neveragain2421 what on earth do you mean by "not paying for drinks"?? We have to pay for everything buddy, we are people, we don't have it easy. You have never met a woman, have you? Such a mysogynist
@@neveragain2421 I sincerely hope you have some dark humour right there, cause if that's not the case then you are messed up in the head
It's to prevent the opioid epidemic from getting worse.
there is actually 1 person left on an iron lung. I believe he's still alive, but he's the last. There's an interview with the gentleman on RUclips! Id love to see you do a video on him
Edit; his name is Paul Alexander
He could switch to a modern alternative (ie respirator) but chooses not to. Basically, yes, we still have and use iron lungs for lung paralysis, they just look very different and we call them something else.
@@Terahnee I watched a video on this basically the new stuff won’t work for his case the iron lung is the only thing that works apparently if u want u can search it up I forgot everything in the video lol
@@elinbird00 i think the newer ones are designed for earlier stages of polio. He can use the mobile ones but only for very short periods of time. His muscles have decayed too much which is why he has to stay in the iron lung. Its so sad but also inspiring because he lived a full life, becoming a lawyer and helping others
@@dosidicusgigas1376 ya he’s really inspiring
@@dosidicusgigas1376 what about his sex life?
Please bring back Dr. Alok more. Really enjoyed his videos specially that reacting to bollywood stuff too. this is the type of entertainment i LOVE to see
A fairly recent advancement that I personally am very grateful for is ablation therapy. A couple years ago I was diagnosed with Wolf-Parkinson-White, which you can only get by being born with. At first I was resentful that it went undiagnosed until my late 30's, until I realized that if it was diagnosed when I was a kid it would have meant open heart surgery.
There’s a certain small taboo device that was used for treating “hysteria” in women. The device itself is harmless, and wouldn’t be seen as crazy by todays standards, but it’s use back then is certainly… unusual by todays standards. Not sure how the algorithm works so I won’t name the device but I’m sure you can find it online.
If it's what I think it is, it would probably be safe to just say it went *bzzzzzz* and saved the doctors from sore wrists.
ya, I found it interesting that "that device" was not included in the video.. lol. but as you said by today's standards not a big deal anymore. Except that Doctors back in the day, were treating the Hysteria as a medical treatment.
@@Cattrix999 Yeah, and it usually wasn't even hysteria, either. Women came in with legit problems and were brushed off as being hysterical. Not a lot has changed since then, sadly.
That certain device was actually the first electrical appliance available for the home along with the vacuum
It’s a vibe!
I watch several veterinarian shows and I've definitely seen clamp-like tools still used in large animal veterinary work to heal hernias and stuff without stitching. Generally on cattle and horses, since they aren't always easy to keep confined and handle to treat open wounds frequently to reduce infection while a suture site heals. So it's to clamp off excess tissues, which then dies/falls off due to lack of blood supply and the remaining skin heals together leaving no more hole.
*Light goes out*
Dr Patel : “COOL”
Yes all these old devices seem so crazy to us now but we wouldn't have the medical technology that we have today without the trial and error of the past so be grateful to everyone from those times for coming up with some wild ideas!
Pretty sure Chemotherapy will be the thing we will look at and be like: "But this ruined the body too, how could they do that?!"
I mean I know it saves lives and stuff. But we will probably have super precise therapy then, so this will look horrible 😅
like how we view now people using arsenic and mercury to treat syphilis before antibiotics
Back in the fifties they used radiation to cure leukemia. It often worked, but usually killed the patient by destroying the good bone marrow with the cancerous bone marrow. When they do bone marrow transplants today, they do the same thing, but then infuse with donated marrow.
Really good point, when we have gene therapy or better drugs or whatever will reduce the need for such harsh drug and radiation treatments, I'm sure it will looked on as shocking
My example is how we just realized appendixes aren't useless and shouldn't just be removed within the last two decades.
There's a difference between looking back at cures that literally have no relevance to treating something and sometimes happened to help which is more the fact something else probably helped the person vs something that DOES work but is harsh. They'll look back at how the medicine developed, not think we're crazy for doing such a ridiculous thing
I think people will look back at how we have this conception that periods and childbirth are naturally painful and so nothing should be done for it. I've heard so many stories where women were discouraged from using anti inflammatory medicines for periods and women getting treated like cattle stalk during childbirth even though we have the technology to significantly reduce the pain.
I mean, at least here in Germany you can like always just say that you want a C-Section.
@@foty8679 It will never fail to amaze me that people *elect* to have a c-section. No... just no. Don't come near me with a scalpel unless I'm gonna die.
@@toxicginger9936yeah I’m on the same page as you no thanks I’m not trying to be SLICED OPEN
@@toxicginger9936less painful tho :) (im kidding, just use pain meds)
3:42 i would be terrified to have an MRI scan back then
The fact that someone made a kidney out of what I can only describe as school science project parts it amazing
You should see what was used to make the first flexible contact lenses.
I recognized that old-school dialysis machine because I saw one in exhibition at an hospital a few years ago. Just imagine being connected to it and watching the rotating drum surface covered in your blood. I probably would faint every time tbh...
I just finished 3 weeks of having two surgical drains in my abdomen to clear the infection caused by my appendix bursting and every single second of it was horrible. That seems like something we'll have a much quicker and less painful and invasive way of treating a few decades from now. At least I sure hope so.
My my had an infection like that, except they got it just in time.
I and all of my classmates were subjected to that mass vaccination device in the late 1960s. It was as scary as it looked, and was traumatizing to boot.
Dr. Alok is constantly fascinated and Dr. Mike is constantly horrified
Look up chainsaw, and you will be horrified too
The level of pain I felt while just looking and listening to those instruments is out of the world 😃
I have no idea how you two survived that 😭 hats off to you 😭🧢
you do realize they arent old enough to have experienced it, right?! hahahaha you must be young, i feel OLD now. 💕 God Bless!
@@IDontKnow-pf6en I think they mean the video
im not gonna like cause its 69 liks