You Know You Are Old When

[scootr]

Smoking doctors. WTH were they thinking

 

[Oaktree]

When we kids got sick my mother would always say "It's the grip" you could have a took ache and it was the grip.
when we really, really got sick she would call the DR and he would come to the house.

I remember my mother using the term "grip", usually had to do with throwing up. Even as a kid in the 50s I don't remember my doctor making house calls, though he might have. I do doctors' offices being a lot more flexible with scheduling...usually could get right in if it was urgent. Dunno if our small-town hospital had an ER or not.

 

[LouNY]

Our family Doc when I was growing was an Army Surgeon from WW II, his bed side manor could have been better or so I recall hearing, don't recall it ever bothering me. His office was in the downstairs of his house and he lived in the upstairs. He made a lot of house calls, if he got an emergency call to go out at times he would leave a note on his front door, sometimes were he was going and the phone number for other "emergency's"

 

[bigtiller]

It wasn't until January 11, 1964 that the Surgeon General's Report on Smoking found that smoking causes lung cancer.

 

[scootr]

It wasn't until January 11, 1964 that the Surgeon General's Report on Smoking found that smoking causes lung cancer.

Up until that time nobody thought purposely inhaling smoke had any harmful effects, regardless of the fact that everybody coughs their head off on the first puff.

 

[Runner]

Up until that time nobody thought purposely inhaling smoke had any harmful effects, regardless of the fact that everybody coughs their head off on the first puff.

But marijuana use is OK because that smoke won't hurt you? That's what "they" claim, but I don't believe it.

 

[Oaktree]

It wasn't until January 11, 1964 that the Surgeon General's Report on Smoking found that smoking causes lung cancer.

My grandfather was a medic in the Russian army pre-revolution. Conventional wisdom back then was that smoking would make your heart turn black. He figured it was BS since no bodies he came across had black hearts.

 

[MossRoad]

Our family doctor made house calls in the 1960s. One of my sisters had rheumatic fever and he'd come by every day to check on her. Did the same for my dad after he got in a car accident. Folks rented a hospital bed and he spent several weeks in it in our family room. Doc would stop by once in a while to check on him. Doc retired and our next DR did not make house calls.

Interesting tidbit... our Doctor got beaten by the Chicago police by during the 1968 riot at the Democratic National Convention. He was a delegate and just happened to step out of his hotel lobby onto the sidewalk and got caught up in the riot. Gotta say, the cops didn't discriminate... they beat everyone. They arrested the Doc and it made local news.

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

I was with my grandfather passed at home in 1986. He was dressed for work, he was a doctor when he had a massive heart attack. It took rescue squad forever arriving and he said "don't let them lay me down". When they came in I was helping this volunteer get oxygen equipment together as another guy quickly laid him over...too late...he regurgitated and asphyxiated.
Born in late 1800s, he was still charging $5 for an office visit and sharpened his hypodermic needle on a stone before giving a shot.
In the 1960s he delivered a baby for a family who lived on a mountain close to use by driving his Farmall tractor there.

 

[BackRoad]

The Doctor discussion reminded me...

YKYO when you've had a mustard plaster on your chest for a severe cold or pneumonia...