Name: 在狂野的西部去看医生是什么感觉（What It Was Like Going To A Doctor In Wild West）
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If you were an early settler in the Wild West,

and you got sick, you had three health care options.

One, find a doctor, and hope their strange potions

Two, figure out how to cure your own ailment.

Of course, if you were able to find a doctor,

you'd probably die anyway, because they sort of just

it was like going to a doctor in the Wild West.

we reckon you subscribe to the Weird History Channel

and holler at us about a Old West thingamajingins you'd

Now, take a swig of whiskey, and bite down on this here rag.

We're going to go see a doctor in the Old West.

Now, you have to remember the state of medicine

Sure, you had a lot of doctors in it for altruistic reasons,

but for the most part, medicine was a cutthroat business.

When a new physician established an office in a smaller

could get ugly fast, as they'd usually become territorial.

Two doctors in one town meant they'd have to split profits.

One of the more infamous incidents of dueling doctors

a tent that would serve as his home and medical office.

announcing his services as doctor and surgeon.

None of this was cool with Doc Hullings, the first doctor

to open a medical practice in the burgeoning mining camp.

Hullings immediately walked over to the new doctor's tent

Dr. Willis calmly told Hullings he wasn't going anywhere then

turned his back on him, and then ordered him out of his tent.

Incensed, Hullings stormed out and came up

with a plan, which wasn't so much of a plan

as it was just him showing up several days later

with a backup of several well-armed Hangtown gold

Hullings demanded Willis produce a diploma, which he promptly

Hullings tore it in half and tossed it to the ground.

Hullings escalated the fight, challenging Clam and Willis

This duel was held in an abandoned mining pit.

After the Sheriff yelled "Fire," both men shot,

Clam was badly wounded from three body shots.

who abandoned his claim also gave up all rights to his land.

Since Doc Hullings was dead, He had technically

abandoned his claim, and Dr. Willis instantly

His first job was to save Mr. Clam's life,

and his first official act was to sign Doc Hullings's death

Doctor was an extremely vague title people gave themselves

didn't need a fancy degree or any real formal hands-on

All you needed was a bag full of unsterilized surgical tools

And because there was a shortage of medical professionals

was as simple as calling yourself a doctor.

For example, in 1827, a janitor performed the first cesarean

John Richmond worked as a janitor at a medical school,

and while he was there, he'd listen in on lectures

then called himself a doctor and performed a c-section

without ever observing one or cutting into a human body,

Richmond wrote, "Finding that whatever was done

must be done soon and feeling a deep and solemn sense

of my responsibility, with only a case of common pocket

That said, Dr. Richmond might have exaggerated a bit,

as the accounts of the c-section has been debated.

While the woman survived the shady procedure,

And in her 2018 book Cesarean Section, An American History

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