I find it interesting that this person is wearing a plague doctor mask given that the doctors who wore it and made it ‘popular’ believed that putting smelling salts and herbs in the nose part would prevent them from Catching disease. Pretty much the antithesis of reasoned scientific thought.
I disagree. At the time, using smelling herbs was a logical conclusion considering the knowledge people had at that time: basically only that sick people smelled bad and that people near sick would be infected.
As an MD in America…yeah. you’re right. Except it’s more like highway robbery by the insurance companies for all involved. We’re obligated to render aid, and in an emergency the rule (in fact, the law) is that we treat the patient and let the bean counters sort out the cost.
The problem is that the patient gets gouged for the costs, and the doctors get gouged by limits on payment…and forget the fee for service, even if we do this pro bono there’s still equipment and supplies.
6 thoughts on “Elven 00048 | The Doctor Is In”
PLehnard
Don’t know if I would trust someone with a plague doctors mask
Dunric
I’m afraid you’ve seen a lot masked doctors in the next months after you commented 😉
Just_IDD
I find it interesting that this person is wearing a plague doctor mask given that the doctors who wore it and made it ‘popular’ believed that putting smelling salts and herbs in the nose part would prevent them from Catching disease. Pretty much the antithesis of reasoned scientific thought.
anonymous
I disagree. At the time, using smelling herbs was a logical conclusion considering the knowledge people had at that time: basically only that sick people smelled bad and that people near sick would be infected.
ChrisH
This reminds me of the backwards medical system we have here in America. 🙁
Silverwolf
As an MD in America…yeah. you’re right. Except it’s more like highway robbery by the insurance companies for all involved. We’re obligated to render aid, and in an emergency the rule (in fact, the law) is that we treat the patient and let the bean counters sort out the cost.
The problem is that the patient gets gouged for the costs, and the doctors get gouged by limits on payment…and forget the fee for service, even if we do this pro bono there’s still equipment and supplies.