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.
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?