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it all makes so much SENSE now!
Sep. 30th, 2008 02:27 pmso we watched this video today on the development of anesthetics.
now I have always wondered WHY we persist with this system that keeps med students awake and making life or death decisions for days on end with no sleep. I mean, we now KNOW that sleep deprivation is pretty much the same, physiologically, as drug use, and you can lose your license for that. I only wonder about it more when I talk to my friends who are going into human medicine and they say things like, I nodded off 3 times today when I was assisting in surgery.
O_o
I'm never going to a teaching hospital again. lmao.
so here's the thing that links the two. and I am a little surprised that I didn't connect these dots earlier, because I knew all this.
Cocaine was a very common anesthetic/analgesic in the early days. we really didn't have any anesthetics before the 1840s, and after we moved past knocking people out with ether and chloroform to wanting to do local or regional anesthetic, coca was the drug of choice.
and you know, with the advent of injectibles, doctors discovered that if they mainlined coke, they could stay awake for days on end. it was FABULOUS.
the birth of the modern medical profession...when med schools were being developed and the institution as we know it was being created, originated at a time when all doctors were high on coke.
*FACEPALM*
Dear AMA. my doctors are not legally allowed to be on cocaine now, so plz to be changing your expectations.
now I have always wondered WHY we persist with this system that keeps med students awake and making life or death decisions for days on end with no sleep. I mean, we now KNOW that sleep deprivation is pretty much the same, physiologically, as drug use, and you can lose your license for that. I only wonder about it more when I talk to my friends who are going into human medicine and they say things like, I nodded off 3 times today when I was assisting in surgery.
O_o
I'm never going to a teaching hospital again. lmao.
so here's the thing that links the two. and I am a little surprised that I didn't connect these dots earlier, because I knew all this.
Cocaine was a very common anesthetic/analgesic in the early days. we really didn't have any anesthetics before the 1840s, and after we moved past knocking people out with ether and chloroform to wanting to do local or regional anesthetic, coca was the drug of choice.
and you know, with the advent of injectibles, doctors discovered that if they mainlined coke, they could stay awake for days on end. it was FABULOUS.
the birth of the modern medical profession...when med schools were being developed and the institution as we know it was being created, originated at a time when all doctors were high on coke.
*FACEPALM*
Dear AMA. my doctors are not legally allowed to be on cocaine now, so plz to be changing your expectations.
