Comment on A simpler time

• hansolo@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Bob Marley died from gangrene following a football injury on his toe.

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  • DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I assume he had ‘reasons’ not to go to a doctor?

    I used to work in the American medical system and I can speak for hours about all the abuses and stupid mistakes Western medicine can make. But I can do even more on how people hurt themselves by not going to doctors.

    There was a fellow who had arm apin and went to a chiropractor. Heart attack.

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    • hansolo@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Marley rejected his doctors’ advice to have his toe amputated, which would have hindered his performing career, citing religious beliefs.

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      • Rooster326@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        He was perfectly entitled to make that decision?

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      • DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Peg Leg Bates.

        Famous one legged dancer Marley would almost certainly ahve heard of.

        https://youtu.be/NXesFCMwys0

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• massive_bereavement@fedia.io ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Tennis: Not even once.

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• LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Coolidge Jr got the blister playing tennis barefoot, and probably ignored it until the ensuing staph infection was well underway. People of that time (1924) who paid attention to their little injuries - wash with soap and water, hit it with some alcohol, cover it (i.e. don’t keep going barefoot on it) didn’t tend to die from them.

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