Medical Changes in the Twienty first Century
Medical Changes in the Twentieth Century Medical advancements in American history have gone through many significant changes in the twentieth century. These advancements in surgery, medicine, and technology had a dramatic impact on our society that improved and bettered the quality of life. America’s medical history has had many changes and improvements since the beginning of its first medical practices. Early medical practices in America were very unsafe as well as ineffective. Its first hospitals were filthy and rare, mostly in urban cities, so mainly doctors operated in their own home (Surgery, Galenet). Before anesthetics, surgery was an extremely difficult task for American physicians. They performed quickly because the pain was so unbearable that most patients went into shock (Surgery, Galenet). A patient was lucky if they survived through surgery. Early medical equipment used in America during the 1700’s was hardly ever sterile. Originally, surgeons didn’t clean their surgical clothing to prove that they were experienced (Yount, 10). The more soaked with blood and filth, the more skilled you were considered. If a patient survived through surgery, they usually died soon after; the loss of blood or
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