"What We Can Learn About Modern Medicine From The Knick" Topic

"If Clive Owen and Steven Soderbergh aren't enough of a reason to get you watching The Knick—hey, talented directors and charismatic actors aren't everyone's jam—the rich detail with which the show portrays the evolution of medicine should be. The Knick provides an unflinching look at how crude a practice medicine was a century ago—and a glimpse at how healthcare became what it is today.

The Knick is set in New York City in 1900, when medical discoveries were occurring faster than ever before. It tells the story of the birth of modern surgery, of course, but it also chronicles the beginning of the public health system in America. Today, that system is all that stands between us and a major epidemic like, say, Ebola. And while Dr. John Thackery (Owen) is fictional, much of the medicine he practices isn't. Here's what watching an hour of Cinemax each week can teach us about modern healthcare…"
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One of the best shows now in TV.

Totally agree!!

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Armand

As per my father: "Why do you think they call it practice."

And as my father used to say: "What do you call the guy who came in last in his class in medical school?"

"Doctor"

Doctors Really Used Those Amazing Devices and Treatments on The Knick.

"The Knick is about a lot of sexy things: there's cocaine addiction, back-alley cadaver deals, and actual sex. But it's also full of real-world historical science. The discoveries, the inventions, even the cocaine addiction, are real—a fact that can be both fascinating and horrifying.

Take, for example, "Thackery's point"—the location Dr. John Thackery (Clive Owen) finds that allows him to safely perform an appendectomy. It wasn't discovered by the show's fictitious main character, but it was located by Charles McBurney in roughly the same time period as the show. (It's still known as "McBurney's point.") That crazy nose reconstruction (above) Thackery does for a woman who loses part of her snout to syphilis? That was also a common treatment at the time, having been invented in Italy during the Renaissance and used for years thereafter. The early 1900s, as The Knick shows, was also when X-rays were coming into common usage. (However, people didn't entirely understand that long-term exposure to radiation could kill you.)

"That was an era of great invention and an era that created the middle class. You had the development of electricity, the telephone, the automobile, the airplane, the radio," says Stanley Burns, the show's medical advisor and founder of the Burns Archive, which provides historical photographs to ensure The Knick's accuracy. "You had all these conveyances—it looked like an age of miracles. Medicine mimicked that."…"
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