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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You know, it's always funny when sci-fi shows have doctors that refer to current year medical practices as "barbaric" or "Savage", but honestly looking back just 50 years? Same feeling.

200 years ago, the local "doctor" will probably tell you to take a swig of the bottle he just dumped on your wound, because he's gotta saw it off. Hopefully they at least washed it since it's last use.

200 years from now? Eh. Doc will wave a light over it, you'll be fine.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

We still have jokes and common knowledge about being sent to the psych ward if you reveal anything weird about your mind. I've heard stories only a few years old of doctors refusing to refer trans patients to gender clinics, which quite often means either needing to circumvent the system or death. Only last year I had the revelation that doctors are supposed to help me, not just tell me what I must do.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

Gays and Lesbians were institutionalized until the late 1960s.