Healthcare Historian Pillows

Heath care, then and now.

'Your PTST is real, and so is the Obamacare website that caused it.'

The Provider with the Lamp

Doctors Through the Ages...

'Do you suppose Dr. Hippocrates had to deal with outrageous malpractice insurance rates?'

Asylum; May contain patients with mental problems.

"What's that mark on your arm, Mama?"

"We're doing everything we can to make him comfortable, short of dressing up as male doctors."

'Feed a cold, starve the plague.'

Cures for Ye Plague

'Hey, this guy's been operated on before!'

'These young doctors know nothing, I used to see 500 patients every day...'

Edward Jenner

Leeches, lucky charms, rat catching. The secretary of health is in.

Early Blood Draw

John Snow

"Milton finally found a doctor he can trust - one who still believes in the healing power of money."

Covid Vaccines

'He keeps a scrapbook of newspaper articles about bathtub injuries.'

An early medical case ripe for a malpractice lawsuit.

'In this practice we like to have the best of the old with the best of the new.'

Antique Ailments

"So why is it that we only get to see you whenever you need a gruesome amputation?"

"We use leeches on the test subjects and slugs on the control group."

Consultation of Physicians.

"We'll be performing the operation using original instruments."

Early Anaesthesia

Florence Nightingale

"How come we don't start plagues any more? Are we one of those boring couples?"

"You've omitted your previous patient experience and recommendations from two other doctors."

"They just don't make 'em like Doc Malone anymore!"

"Look, the generic ones are just as good, and your insurance doesn't cover the brand leeches."

Press Conference

"On certain types of wounds we use lawyers instead of leeches because lawyers never seem to get their fill of blood..."

Rene Laennec