Movieclips
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2:43 · 582K views · Oct 9, 2011
A movie clip from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home in which Dr. McCoy, appalled by primitive 20th-century medicine, tries to smuggle Chekov out of a hospital.
Posted as a joke or pop-culture reference whenever threads touch on backward or barbaric medicine.
3 comments from Hacker News
" I rarely clip aneurysms now. All the skills that I slowly and painfully acquired to become an aneurysm surgeon have been rendered obsolete by technological change. Although neurosurgery is no longer what it once was, the neurosurgeon’s loss has been the patient’s gain. " so nice to read this many of the entrenched remain so through superstition at the loss of progress, but to read someone speak highly of a practice that rendered a section of their skill set obsolete is heartening i have family who work in trauma and they condescendingly balk at my excitement over new medical technology: [LINK] [LINK] personally, i look forward to bones: this video
I can't match you on credentials or acronyms, but I'm pretty good at figuring out what matters for improving my own health. "Should cardiologists evaluate their obsession with LDLs and HDLs?" - [LINK] (April 2016) Saw this link on the sidebar: "Slow Medicine: Pressing Pause on Statins For Primary Prevention" - [LINK] (December 4 2016) I would estimate that the cholesterol fetish has about 2 more years before it begins to slide into irrelevance, and the field begins to refocus on the causes behind the symptom. A classic fun movie clip: this video
What's wild to me is the amount of effort and resources that have gone into weight loss around exercise and diet only for us to discover it is a hormone and brain chemistry issue around the gut and reward centers (GLP-1s). Shades of this video