The Medical Treatments We Can't Believe Were Real | EP 155
Medical history is filled with treatments that doctors once believed were revolutionary.. but many are now considered shocking, dangerous, or even deadly. In this episode of the Real Health Podcast, Dr. Amir Rashidian and Brandi Rashidian explore bloodletting, mercury treatments, lobotomies, cocaine in medicine, thalidomide, penicillin, and how medical science continues to evolve. Could some of today's accepted treatments be viewed the same way in the future?
In this episode we discuss:
✔ Bloodletting and George Washington
✔ Mercury as medicine
✔ The shocking history of lobotomies
✔ Cocaine…
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