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TIL of the Duplessis Orphans, a scam run by the premier of Quebec in the 40s and 50s to wrongly confine thousands of children in psychiatric hospitals in order to gain payouts from the Canadian government.

by whatilearned March 4, 2023, 3:59 pm

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TIL : That until 1978, the Mormon church owned hospitals that kept blood donations separated by race, so white members would not receive black people’s blood, disqualify them from the priesthood.

by whatilearned December 12, 2022, 1:51 am

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TIL More than half of all hospitals in the United States are set up as nonprofits, a designation that allows them to make money but avoid paying taxes.

by whatilearned September 25, 2022, 4:02 pm

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TIL of Martin Couney the creator of “Infantoriums”, A 20th century sideshow where people would pay 5 cents to view premature babies housed in incubators. Despite the ethics at the time premature babies were neglected and 4/5 died in hospitals. Couney is credited with saving the lives of 6,500 babies

by whatilearned August 28, 2022, 2:10 am

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TIL Hospitals Are Allowing Medical Students to Perform Pelvic Exams on Unconscious Women — Without Their Consent

by whatilearned June 11, 2022, 11:47 pm

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In Denmark the healthcare is almost free, which means the doctors and hospitals are paid for by the government through the taxes that is paid. So the question is: what do you think about the idea of free healthcare paid through your taxes?

by QuestionGuy May 24, 2022, 8:03 am

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[Serious] People who have been committed to psych wards/mental hospitals and later got better and were released, what was your experience?

by QuestionGuy May 11, 2022, 3:49 pm

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TIL of Mo-99—a radioactive isotope of Molybdenum used in hospitals to produce the radioactive tracer Technetium-99m (for medical imaging). Mo-99’s half-life is just 66 hours, and is made commercially in only 4 nuclear reactors around the world, most of which are reaching the end of their life.

by whatilearned March 15, 2022, 7:03 pm

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TIL Keanu Reeves runs a private charitable foundation that provides aid to cancer research and a couple of children’s hospitals. In a 2009 interview with Ladies Home Journal, he said, “I don’t like to attach my name to it, I just let the foundation do what it does.”

by whatilearned January 26, 2022, 5:55 pm

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TIL in parts of Europe, you can find “Baby hatches” which are boxes placed near hospitals where parents can bring unwanted babies and leave them there

by whatilearned January 9, 2022, 4:28 pm

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TIL Wilhelm Röntgen discovered X-rays in Nov, 1895. The very next month, he took the first X-ray image using his wife’s hand; 2 months after that, X-rays were being used in multiple hospitals across the globe. By May, Thomas Edison developed the first mass-produced X-ray imaging device.

by whatilearned December 8, 2021, 10:33 pm

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he director of one of America’s finest hospitals is showing the President around the hospital. In one room, the President sees a male patient masturbating furiously. “What’s that guy doing?” he asks.

by cringeyjokesman December 8, 2021, 8:27 pm

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