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Date: 29 January 2008 22:25:21
I have been watching a fascinating programme which started last week. It is called Medicine Men Go Wild. Identical twin doctors Chris and Xand van Tulleken who are both doctors are going off to various parts of the world to look at how various people groups deal with disease etc. Last week they were in a rainforest somewhere watching one of the local doctors treat a baby who had malaria. Eventually they had to intervene with Western medicine because the child would have died otherwise. Although they did make the comment that it was interesting that they had watched the local doctor treat the baby with herbal medicine and yet they were treating the baby with medication that was developed from a Chinese herb.
This weeks episode is pretty foul. They are looking at how people deal with pain and I have just witnessed a whole load of people having their tongues and cheeks pierced without any analgesia. What really made me want to puke though was watching a woman having a decaying tooth treated with a hot poker. All without pain relief. Grim but fascinating.
Mind you, it doesn't hurt that the doctors are quite pretty :)