For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for December 03, 2017

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    howtheduck  almost 7 years ago

    Looking at this comic strip from 1988, you can see just how much doctors and medicine have changed since then:

    1.No computerized equipment

    2.No protective disposable sheets on the examination table.

    3.The eye charts start with a big “E”, but unlike today where the next row has 2 letters that are slightly smaller than the “E”, the 1998 eye chart goes straight to XZOPY

    4.Instead of the nurse taking the temperature and blood pressure, the doctor does it.

    5.Instead of wearing gloves, the doctor takes the thermometer out of the sterile pak with his bare hands and pops it in John’s mouth.

    6.The shirt always goes off for the physical examination.

    7.When the 1988 doctor used the palpatory method to measure diastolic blood pressure, instead of using the first three fingers laid flat on the arm to find the radial pulse, the doctor would just give the elbow a firm grab.

    Any other medical differences you notice?

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    Templo S.U.D.  almost 7 years ago

    Even someone who’s in the medical profession has to get his health checked out by someone else in the medical profession every once in a while.

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    Rosette  almost 7 years ago

    I must have missed the punchline.

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    M2MM  almost 7 years ago

    Turnabout is fair play. :D

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    Willywise52 Premium Member almost 7 years ago

    Next,John,turn around and bend over,here comes the bill…

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    Doctor_McCoy  almost 7 years ago

    Not one of the models I’m used to seeing on a wall calendar.

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    prrdh  almost 7 years ago

    And yet another patient gets a misdiagnosis of hypertension…

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    Diat60  almost 7 years ago

    It’s great when the shoe is on the other foot. Payback!

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    codedaddy  almost 7 years ago

    Eek! Alien invasion revealed. No nipples.

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    kodj kodjin  almost 7 years ago

    One thing hasn’t changed; 3 year old or more magazines in the waiting room. One big change now is everybody is totally absorbed in their smart phones.

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    paranormal  almost 7 years ago

    My blood pressure is taken by a medical assistant or a nurse at my PCP. The PCP will take my BP if it was high. I don’t take my shirt off for him to listen to my heart and breathing. Since my employer took the insurance contract from my heath plan to an insurance company the doctor only does the basics. The rest is referred to specialist for more co-pays. A colonoscopy that used to be done in the clinic is now done out-patient in the hospital. The eye charts are now projected at the eye doctor. It used to be you payed after seeing the doctor, now you pay before. Dental is not covered by my insurance or the former health plan.

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    Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo]  almost 7 years ago

    Lynn’s Notes:

    Living in small towns meant that we got to know the medical folks pretty well. Meeting a doctor at a party, who had just given me a physical check-up, was a challenge at first. Then, like everyone else…I just got used to it!

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