• melsaskca@lemmy.ca
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    8 小时前

    “Take a trip to the seaside, it’ll cure what ails you.” “Doctor, I cannot afford that.” “Leeches it is then!”

  • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone
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    Man goes to doctor. Says the town is rundown and depressing with major heroin problem. Doctor says treatment is simple: “go to famous seaside town Blackpool. That should pick you up.” Man bursts into tears. “But Doctor, this is Blackpool!”

  • Nalivai@lemmy.world
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    Mine still does, in fact that’s the only thing he actually prescribes. Well, he recommends walking in the mountains, but that’s because seaside is 8 hours away but mountains are only 30 minutes.

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    16 小时前

    My dad’s doctor actually did! He said since it seemed there were problems with feeling oxygen deprived, and we lived at high altitude, try taking a visit to the ocean.

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      11 小时前

      Former owners of the company my partner works at have a host of health issues. They spend a lot of time on the seaside because it alleviates some of it. But also from firsthand experience I know how much it can help.

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    Oh, if I was picking something for an old timey doctor to prescribe me it would probably be laudanum

  • DaGammla@lemmy.ml
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    “not to romanticize the medical practices of the early 1900s”, but let’s romanticize fixing your depression with a seaside prescription.

    What is this idiotic post?

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      12 小时前

      steam powered Hitachi … gotta keep it historically accurate.

    • DontTreadOnBigfoot@lemmy.world
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      I suddenly get why women are so disillusioned about the modern medical system…

      “What do you mean I can’t just have some coke and goon?”

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        TBF I’m not a woman and I’m still disillusioned. The amount of times I’ve heard from doctors more or less verbatim “I don’t know what to do” … might as well prescribe recreational drugs and tell me to goon.

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          As a dude, this happens to me too (but I have rare “zebra” medical conditions)

        • Apytele@sh.itjust.works
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          Am RN and wish I was allowed just give people recreational drugs and let them goon. Instead I have to explain that life is suffering, which is a much more difficult conversation. Have been thinking about getting some ICU experience so I can maybe transition to a ketamine clinic but they’re gonna have to wait to go home for the gooning idw watch and definitely don’t wanna help it’s not that kinda service.