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Damien O'Donovan | The Wind that Shakes the Barley (irelandunfree) wrote in thedoorway,
@ 2013-03-01 01:38:00

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!network post, amber volakis, damien o'donovan, john watson (bbc), primrose everdeen, regulus black

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I was wondering if one of you might be able to help me catch up on the medical advancements of the last ninety years? I graduated from Trinity College in 1918, and while I graduated with honors and was well respected in my time (I even got a job with a prestigious teaching hospital in England), it's been a long time and there's just a lot I don't know anymore.

I appreciate any help you might give me. I've tried reading some journals online, and they're just well beyond what I learned. But antibiotics are incredible. Absolutely stunning. What I would have done to have something that could stop infection so efficiently...

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If nothing else, at least medicine's advanced a lot since I studied it.

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	irelandunfree 2013-03-01 06:55 am UTC (link)
	I've thought of that. I've also thought of speaking to doctors, and reading journals. But there's just...a lot. You're very young. Are you...a nurse? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	thelittleduck 2013-03-01 07:01 am UTC (link)
	I agree, there's a lot. You could speak with Martha Jones. She's one of the Doctors here and is very nice. I'm thirteen, yes. At home my mother was a healer, and I've been assisting her for a few years. I'd just begun my real training to be a Doctor before I arrived here. My name is Prim Everdeen. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	irelandunfree 2013-03-01 07:06 am UTC (link)
	Well, good for you. Really, that's grand. Let me know if I can help, okay? Although you'd probably be best to ask the other doctors. At least for now - I wouldn't want to tell you something horribly old fashioned. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	thelittleduck 2013-03-01 07:15 am UTC (link)
	I wouldn't mind. I think it would be interesting to hear how things were done in your time. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

irelandunfree
2013-03-01 07:19 am UTC (link)

There were a lot of people we couldn't save, in my time. A lot of people who died of starvation, or of diseases like typhoid and dysentery that didn't have any place in the 20th century. And of course, these were the same people who couldn't afford a doctor. I did what I could, but what can one doctor do in the face of such poverty?

But I'd be glad to tell you what I know. Surely not everything I've learned is useless.

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	thelittleduck 2013-03-01 07:44 am UTC (link)
	I know that very well. The District that I grew up in was very poor too. We couldn't afford the expensive medicines and treatments in the Capitol, so we did what we could. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	irelandunfree 2013-03-01 04:01 pm UTC (link)
	And I hate that - when patients die not because you can't save them, but because you don't have the money to save them. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	thelittleduck 2013-03-02 07:11 am UTC (link)
	Yes, it is terrible. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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