2 Nov 2019
Presidential Medicine: Truman
Until the post-war period, health care policy played a minor role in presidential politics. Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s plans for national health insurance remained incomplete when he died in office in 1945, and every subsequent president from Harry Truman to Donald Trump has wrestled with the unfinished business of health care reform. Lyndon B. Johnson passed […]
27 Nov 2019
Cholera: A Panoply of Useless Remedies
Without a thorough understanding of how the disease worked, treating cholera and preventing its spread proved extremely difficult. Treatments were ineffective at best or actively harmful at their worst. If the cholera didn’t kill you, then a visit to the doctor just might. Still, with no better remedies at their disposal, desperate people were driven […]
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