How has Medicine Changed?

Medicine Through Time
Site: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/doctors/time.html

View the “Medicine Through Time”. You can choose different symptoms and different time periods to find out what the doctors would tell your. Feel free to experiment with the different symptoms


Choose one of the symptoms: What symptoms did you choose? (summarize below)

How would you be treated?

in 1900

in 1950

in 2000

Chance of survival? (good, not too bad if I'm lucky, better make funeral arrangements)

in 1900

in 1950

in 2000


Go to the MD Specialties on the menu at the bottom. (link: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/doctors/specialties.html)

Name the specialist that you would see for each of the following:

Acne ____________________

Heartburn _________________

Thyroid disorder _______________

Heart disease ________________

Pregnancy __________________

Hemophilia __________________

Vasectomy __________________

Ear Infection ___________________

Workplace injury ___________________

Cancer _____________________

Depression ___________________

Asthma _____________________

Cataracts _____________________

Broken bones ______________________

Child diseases ______________________

Heart transplant _______________________

Beautify a nose ________________________


Go to the Link on the “Hippocratic Oath Today” on the bottom menu (link: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/doctors/oath.html)

Compare the modern version of the Hippocratic Oath to the classical version.
What things stayed the same? What things changed?

Finished? Go to www.yahooligans.com and type "medicine" in the search field. (Yahooligans is better for this search than Yahoo, Yahoo will bring up many university level sites on medicine, whereas for this lesson you are just browsing for interesting sites about medicine)

Write down any sites you visit. (Name of the site is fine, if you don't want to write out the URL)