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Re:The Hedonic Treadmill by guyzero on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @02:07PM (#11536415)
So I'm not sure I agree with the original author but a modern homeless person can wander into a hospital emergency ward and get treated for a variety of diseases that would have killed a medieval king. Assuming we mean 1,000 years ago and not 10,000 years ago which may actually pre-date kings.
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Re:The Hedonic Treadmill by cubano on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @03:34PM (#11537104)
One of my favorite little know facts about how much has really changed with medical treatment...

Only 90 years ago, President Calvin Coolidge's 16 year old son died from a foot blister he got while playing lawn tennis on the White House grounds, something that would have probably been easily treated with an OTC anti-bacterial or a quick trip to the doctor nowadays.

We hardly have the get "medieval" to see the radical advancements in health and how we all greatly benefit from it.

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Re:The Hedonic Treadmill by lazyant on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @06:52PM (#11538318)
Right. Just for contrast, Christopher Reeve (most famous "Superman"actor) died in 2004 of complications of a _bed sore_ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Reeve
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Re:The Hedonic Treadmill by houselouse on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @08:39PM (#11538843)
...9 years after being thrown off of his horse and living as a quadriplegic, requiring a ventilator
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Re:The Hedonic Treadmill by guyzero on Thursday April 21, 2016 @02:21PM (#11544260)
I think more to the point Christopher Reeve lived for 9 years as a quadriplegic.
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