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Operations on the Kitchen Table
Before the birth of the NHS in 1947 when patients had to pay for their care, medicine was a totally different type of occupation. Here a Welsh doctor remembers performing operations on kitchen tables. Apparently they preferred to operate on the table as it was kept clean, though gangrene was still often a problem afterwards.
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