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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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TIL the Work Progress Administration by FDR in 1939 transformed America by employed millions of people, producing new schools, hospitals, sewers and hydroelectric power plants, as well as murals, sculptures, libraries, LaGuardia Airport and some 650,000 miles of roads and 8,000 parks.

by whatilearned December 3, 2021, 5:34 am

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The director of one of America’s finest hospitals is showing the President around the hospital.

by cringeyjokesman November 29, 2021, 5:21 pm

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TIL that in 19th century England, if your corpse wasn’t claimed in a hospital or if you died in a place where you couldn’t be identified, you might have been sold to a school or hospital so doctors could practice anatomy. Some priests even sold bodies to gravediggers who sold them to hospitals.

by whatilearned November 14, 2021, 7:44 pm

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TIL the US government preformed radiation tests on unknowing US citizens in the 1940’s and 50’s. Victims included patients visiting hospitals for various reasons, prisoners, pregnant women, and mentally disabled children.

by whatilearned October 30, 2021, 1:46 am

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