President Eisenhower received the best available treatment for his 1955 heart attack. That was bed rest and morphine for the pain.
I read in several places that advances in the treatment of heart attacks have on their own added three years to life expectancies.
I can now see why you read in my youth about many people in the 60s and 50s and so forth having to retire after a heart attack. The only treatment was to be told to slow down in the hope that you stay lucky
There has been extraordinary progress made in many facets of medical science and treatment, with the obvious front runner being cardiac issues. Nowhere is such progress better demonstrated than in the life insurance industry with its actuarial downgrading of cardiac risk over the last thirty years.
Not so well known, perhaps, is the art of pain management.
Some of our more alert readers will know Adolf underwent surgery on his left shoulder nearly three months ago to reattach a snapped tendon. The surgeon told me while such surgery is not major compared with many other types, this particular case was at the top of it’s class for being ‘major.’
So there I was, slung in a sling for six weeks, unable to drive.
For the whole six weeks l was required to take Panadol, 24 hours per day, every day, continuing up to today and for God knows how much…
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