If modern medicine were to disappear tomorrow, how badly would you personally be affected? By modern medicine I mean antibiotics, stents, laser surgery, blood pressure meds, anti-depressants, synthetic insulin, etc, etc. Basically turning the clock back 100 years

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I'd be dead before the week was over.

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TXBill



Former owner of a few diesel MB cars
1998 Lexus ES 300 In Chicago We Trust

The way things are, many people already are facing that reality. The drugs are there, they just can't afford them. Have you ever been laid off and lost your health insurance? Yes COBRA benefits are available, but how many people can afford many hundreds of dollars a month after losing their job?

Everyday many people have to make that decision. Pay their bills or buy their prescriptions.

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Back 100 years, meaning we could smoke weed in public?

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I am........for the past 25 years, so is my entire family, we all depend on nature cure with Ayurveda and Homeopathy. I was diagnosed with Diabetes Mellitus at 30 and since then I have been on natural meds with no insulin. At 43 I still don't need any glasses and my kidneys test at 100%.

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2015 Gurkha with OM616 DI turbo

2014 Rexton W with OM612 VGT

Considering the frequency with which I go to doctors, it would probably be a few years before I noticed.

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83 300D Turbo with manual conversion, early W126 vented front rotors and H4 headlights 400,xxx miles
08 Suzuki GSX-R600 M4 Slip-on 22,xxx miles
88 Jaguar XJS V12 94,xxx miles. Work in progress.

I'd be just fine, about the only thing I take is Zyrtec, and Asprin. Just during allergy season I would feel horrible alot...

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1999 Toyota Corolla VE (Mine)
2006 Honda Odyssey (Wife's)
1979 300CD (sold)

You used modern medicine to test your Kidneys and thats against the rules!

Other than the occasional analgesic, I don't take any meds, so I ought to be able to continue being a p i t a for a good while longer.

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09 Jetta TDI
1985 300D

Depends on how you define 'survive.'

I've actually got my Enbrel syringe sitting on my keyboard, warming to room temp so that it doesn't hurt like a sum***** when I inject it. Getting that in tonight means tomorrow I take my methotrexate.

Just swallowed my twice-daily dose of loritadine.

This morning, I coated my face, neck, and arms with sunscreen.

If I had to give up my Enbrel and methotrexate, my mobility would be dramatically reduced. This I know, because any time I get an infection, I have to go off these drugs until the infection is cleared. If I'm off this cocktail for more than a couple weeks, I start reverting to painful existence I had for 20+ years before finding these drugs. In addition, off these drugs my iritis and macular edema are far more likely to flare up. Being blind sucks (went there once for a short while during a particularly bad bout of the macular edema), but being blind does not equal unable to survive.

Lose the loritadine, and I get miserable here in CT pretty much full time for ~ 4 months (severe grass allergies - pretty much anything people plant as lawn, I'm allergic to). In southern CA, this was a nuisance. Out here, it hits the point of 'Jim is useless' at times.

Sunscreen? Has become a necessity in my humble opinion. This opinion became pretty firmly planted after having 26 spots frozen off my face and shoulders. Oh - and one pre-cancerous lump removed from my nose.

So - losing my regimen of modern medicine won't cause me to drop dead tomorrow. Be miserable (fiery swords down the back of both legs with every step pretty much sucks), yeah. Drop dead sooner than I would have otherwise, most likely.

This from a guy who will never, ever forget that western doctors 'practice' medicine. Collectively, they've been at it for hundreds of years. Individually, they go to school forever, and yet they never get past the 'practicing' stage.

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1961 220b: first project car - sold.
2000 CLK 430: first modern Benz - sold.
2001 CLK 55: OMG the torque!!! - sold
1972 280SE 4.5: Baby Gustav
1991 300TE 4Matic: Gretel the Snow Bunny - sold
1978 300SD: Katz the Free Man - given away
1980 Redhead: Darling Wife

I'd be fine. I take a few supplements and an asprain for headaches every once in a while but I would survive... If I worked harder and ate better like people did 100 years ago, I'd be even better.

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-Evan


Benz Fleet:
1968 UNIMOG 404.114
1998 E300
2008 E63


Non-Benz Fleet:
1992 Aerostar
1993 MR2
2000 F250

Do you have Anklyosing Spondilytis? I take Humera for it

Without modern medicine, our lives would be vastly different. Without the broad vaccination programs we have in place pesky little diseases like TB, Polio, (remember smallpox?), etc. would come back happily out of the woodwork and once again reduce our ballooning populations nicely.

Without cardiac intervention, many Western men and others around the globe would be dropping dead at 50-60 instead of 70-80+.

Same scenario for cancer, worse probably.

Viral outbreaks and epidemics would change how we live in terms of defending our families against the spread of the disease. With no way to check the spread, people would have to run from hot zones. This would likely create a scenario akin to several bad B-horror movies I can think of.

Infant birth mortality would increase, as would mortality rates for young pregnant women. Even with modern medicine and surgery, birth complications are still common. We've forgotten some of that in the face of modern C-sections and epidurals. Reversion to essentially paegan medicine would remind us nicely.

Those nasty peanut and other food allergies would probably take a back seat though, as unchecked anaphylactic shock would wipe out those affected.

Getting old wouldn't be so much of a drag as we'd all die sooner from the little things - pneumonia, infections, gangrene from brittle broken bones that haven't been set properly due to lack of x-ray/imaging technology, etc.

I won't even get into antibiotics as they really should speak for themselves.

Hmmm...maybe I'll stop here, I'm depressing myself. No meds for that either, come to think of it...

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Chris
2007 E550 4Matic - 61,000 Km - Iridium Silver, black leather, Sport package, Premium 2 package
2007 GL450 4Matic - 62,000 Km - Obsidian Black Metallic, black leather, all options
1998 E430 - sold
1989 300E - 333,000 Km - sold
1977 280E - sold
1971 250 - retired

"And a frign hat. They gave me a hat at the annual benefits meeting. I said. how does this benefit me. I dont have anything from the company.. So they gave me a hat." - TheDon

<--------Doesn't get headaches, no allergies, only got poison ivy once when I scratched the back of my neck with the back of a machette. Somehow i'm not even allergic to bee's like my father is. I'm rarely sick and when it happens i'm usually over it within a day or two. I've only taken medicine 3 or 4 times in my entire life (Up to and includeing the common stuff like tylenol) I wouldn't even flinch.


For those of you with seasonal allergies I'm going to recommend eating honey. However don't go to stop and shop and buy it otherwise its pointless. Only local honey will do any good so find a beekeeper close to home.

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1990 300SEL Smoke Silver (Parting out)
1991 350SDL Blackberry Metallic (481)

"The thing is Bob, its not that I'm lazy...its that I just don't care."

Healthy. Only recent doctor visit was in October for Strep Throat. IF and when I get to the point of needing that "blue pill" with the 4 hour side effect, and it didn't exist, they're would be a bullet behind my left ear..

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