I know, right? The flu, like the poor, will always be with us!
They used to call pneumonia The Old Man's Friend because it finished off very old and infirm people rather quickly. Now they treat and treat and try to save everyone as if we won't all die someday. Today we would have to "ungender" it of course, but it's the same principle with this Chinese flu, isn't it?
The term is attributed to William Osler, who in the first edition of his book The Principles and Practice of Medicine (1892) wrote:
In children and in healthy adults the outlook is good. In the debilitated, in drunkards and in the aged the chances are against recovery. So fatal is it in the latter class [i.e. the elderly] that it has been termed the natural end of the old man.
In hospitals we've colloquially referred to the person of extreme age with a slew of comorbities as suffering from TMB, Too Many Birthdays or EBS, Excessive Birthday Syndrome.
I know, right? The flu, like the poor, will always be with us!
They used to call pneumonia The Old Man's Friend because it finished off very old and infirm people rather quickly. Now they treat and treat and try to save everyone as if we won't all die someday. Today we would have to "ungender" it of course, but it's the same principle with this Chinese flu, isn't it?
In hospitals we've colloquially referred to the person of extreme age with a slew of comorbities as suffering from TMB, Too Many Birthdays or EBS, Excessive Birthday Syndrome.
That’s some dark ass humor, there kimosabe.
Docs, nurses, and the like all have a darker sense of humor. Were subjected to blood, poop, pee, vomit, death, and extreme human idiocy on the daily.
Yeah don’t misunderstand, I like dark humor. I get it.
Name checks out.
What do you think of Old Gender Fluid Fren as a rebranding for Old Man’s Friend.