In Texas, prison inmates have to pay $100 a year…

In Texas, prison inmates have to pay $100 a year out of their personal account to see a doctor for a sickness that is not an emergency or a chronic illness. If they don’t have the money, half of all future funds deposited into their account are put towards the debt. 00

Doctors didn’t wear white coats till…

Doctors didn’t wear white coats till the late 1800s. Due to swift advancement in medicine, the public thought discoveries of new antiseptics & the spreading of disease were just mysticism & deceit. In response, doctors adopted the white lab coats to represent a fresh start for the medical field.

In the early 1900s Wagner von Jauregg treated…

In the early 1900s Wagner von Jauregg treated syphilis patients with malaria (winning the Nobel Prize). The patients developed malaria, causing a severe fever and killed the syphilis bacteria. Then given the malaria drug quinine and cured. This was used until the development of penicillin.

Labor and Delivery Cost in the USA in one picture

A Reddit user received the bill for labor and delivery (C section) total $13,280.49. That didn’t come as a surprise, as its well known fact that childbirth cost in US, ranges from $3,296 to $37,227, or more depending on the state and the hospital. However, what blew the mothers mind was, that she was charged […]

The 2010 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Richard F. Heck died…

The 2010 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Richard F. Heck died October 10 2015 after being refused treatment at a Manila private hospital because he had no money. Richard Heck won the Nobel Prize in 2010 for the Palladium-catalyzed coupling reaction named the Heck reaction. The Heck reaction is used to produce Naproxen. a painkiller used […]

The 2010 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Richard F. Heck died…

The 2010 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Richard F. Heck died October 10 2015 after being refused treatment at a Manila private hospital because he had no money. Richard Heck won the Nobel Prize in 2010 for the Palladium-catalyzed coupling reaction named the Heck reaction. The Heck reaction is used to produce Naproxen. a painkiller used […]