Without modern medicine, would you have survived this long?

Yes. The only way I'm going to go to a doctor is kicking and screaming.

possibly, i haven't had what we would now call a life threatening illness but that said, i have had a few infections requiring antibiotics. so if any of those lingered without antibiotics, i possibly would have progressed to death over time. and i am now 47, so i will be pushing the boundaries of the upper age limits of the time prior to these technologies soon.

I think I made a survey like this many years ago, but I can't find it. Anyway, I'm pretty sure I'd be dead. I've had 2 bowel-resection surgeries that I think saved my life (though, it wasn't like I was about to die, but I was getting there).

Yes; I've never had any seriously life-threatening ailments. I can't say for sure that innoculations haven't prevented something, though.

I think not. I was a premature baby, with a 50% survival chance in 1958. So what would that chance have been fifty years earlier?
And I'm on medicine for high cholesterol and high blood pressure now; without those, would I have had a heart attack by now?

not a chance i got a crapty immune system

Well, I did have that huge operation when I was about fourteen. At the time the doctor told me if I didn't have it I'd be in a wheelchair by the time I was 30 and dead by age 45. So I guess no, I wouldn't have survived. Unless of course he was wrong. Which somehow I doubt.

Probably not.

I bled a lot and required transfusions when I had my daughter... The placenta separated from the uterine wall.

On the other hand, medical intervention almost killed me when they tried to take out a kidney stone a few years ago.... So I guess it goes both ways.

It's possible. I had croup when I was three and had really bad asthma as a child. Without Ventolin I would have struggled through some attacks.

With all my allergies, I'm sure I would have perished decades ago without modern medicine.

Probably (I'll say yes). I haven't had any life-threatening illnesses that modern medicine cured. However, it's possible I could have contracted one of the things I was vaccinated against and died from that.

No, I think the pneumonia I got when I was 16 could have killed me a 100 years ago. I was very sick.

Yes. If there hadn't been an outbreak of TB/Measles, etc.

Almost certainly not. I had meningitis aged 13, and were it not for the care I received in a Spanish hospital in Zaragoza, may not have survived.

Yes, I would have

I think much of modern medicine is a scam.......when it comes to disease. I think most people would be better off without visits to doctors of modern medicine,...just start using preventative measures. To answer the question would we have survived this long without modern medicine......yes we would....it's actually a miracle we have lived this long WITH modern medicine.

I think so. 42 is not that old and I live a pretty healthy lifestyle. I've had some scans and things done over the years, but nothing that my life depended upon.

Possibly... most likely. I've only been severely sick once. My hubby wouldn't be around, though.

No, I would have shot myself in the head to escape the pain of trigeminal neuralgia. Those abnormal cells on my cervix were pre cancerous so I may have died of cervical cancer if I hadn't had that taken care of.

No, I probably would have died when I was five. I mentioned this incident in the recent survey about x-rays.

No, I probably would have died...at the age of 8 or so...Unless I'm misunderstanding.

I don't know, maybe. I would ask the question: Without modern medicine, would I be healthier today? Maybe.

No. Without modern drugs I'd be dead and without the ability to correct my vision I'd be of little use.

Well, I had appendicitus at 8, they took it out just in time apparently, perhaps I would have died had I or it occurred prior to modern medicine.. even hooping cough or whatever you call it might have been a threat too, I had that as a youngin also. I reallydont know.

No I would not even be here and I would be dead and long gone

i don't know.....it's hard to say.......i once had a blood clot in my brain but considering it was "CAUSED" they say by smoking while on birth control pills.......i may not have ever had it - had it not been for "modern" medicine.........
Other than that - whose to say i wouldn't have gotten pneumonia or something from some random cold i wouldn't have been able to shake without antibiotics....it's very difficult to say.

Probably.

> Yes. The only way I'm going to go to a doctor is kicking and screaming.

That's the way to be!!!!

No, I would have died as a child of tonsillitis related complications or as an adult from complications related to childbirth.

Oh and last year without a D and C after a miscarriage...I would have bled to death....

> Well, I did have that huge operation when
> I was about fourteen. At the time the doctor
> told me if I didn't have it I'd be in a wheelchair
> by the time I was 30 and dead by age 45.
> So I guess no, I wouldn't have survived.
> Unless of course he was wrong. Which somehow
> I doubt.


What was the operation for?

For Scoliosis, I went in the day before my birthday and had the three hour operation on my birthday (my dad was so upset about that). Then I was in a stryker frame (sic), then a full body cast, I was in the hospital for three months, I can't tell you how much fun it wasn't learning how to walk again after never getting out of bed for all that time. So I went to high school with braces and a body cast. Sigh.

LOL, Heaven won't have me.....and Hell is afraid I'll take over

I have whooping cough... whoop whoop

No.

I was badly burned when I was trapped in a house fire and had to run through the flames to escape. I spent 5 weeks in Seattle's Harborview Burn Center and underwent 10 reconstructive surgeries.

Without modern medicine, I would be dead.

No, there was a surgery I had when I was 21 and without it I probably wouldn't have made it.

Yes. The only medicine I've used is penicillin.

Yes.

No - I had osteomyelitis as a baby and would have died before my second birthday.

I think all of the people who said "yes", don't really appreciate what life was life 100 years ago when death rates for children under 5 were immense.

Wow, that kinda sucked.

I think not. I was born with many disorders--a couple physical, and three physiological. I'm a mess.

I don't know. Maybe?
Would my parents have survived?
Would my grandparents have survived?

yes. unless I didn't make it though my open heart surgery when I was five monthes old.

Modern medicine kills so many people it's not even funny. Eating natural foods, exercising, and using natural medicine when you fall ill is the way to go.

The only life threatening illness I've had was viral pneumonia. Medically, there wasn't much the doctor could do since it was a virus, not bacteria.