Medical and health things we'll be horrified by in the future

[Leavesofautumn]

This is inspired by a recent thread about sunbeds.

What things happen now, that in fifty years time we'll be horrified by in the same way that we're horrified by certain things from Victorian times now, or even things from the 1960s? I'm talking about both medical treatments, and products that are harmful to health. In fact asbestos is still a problem now if certain buildings are being demolished.

Smoking indoors is an obvious one - even now I'm amazed we ever went into a restaurant and specifically had to ask for a non-smoking table.

Sunbeds are already banned in Australia and Brazil.

Prednisolone is a nasty drug and I'd like to see it eventually fall out of use once something better has been invented.

Getting our lips injected with filler to make them bigger

I hope that something better and gentler than chemotherapy is invented, and future generations will be horrified that such toxic drugs were the best option in the past.

That it takes the average women with endometriosis 8 years to get diagnosed and to get any sort of help/ taken seriously.

CBT. It's gaslighting.

The WiFi, especially from kids with iPads etc on their laps.

The internet, and that children were just allowed on it to traumatise themselves.

The free availability of pornography.

The amount of plastic.

That we kept concreting over green fields (particularly as the population starts to drop).

FPTP, with any luck.

woodburners!!!Vaping in teens/younger adults rather than as an aid for people to quit smoking.

I would be 100% dead without CBT.

Chemotherapy, completely needed, but barbaric, surely we’ll find a way to treat cancer that isn’t so harmful to the patient.

Smear tests.

The poor funding we currently have for mental health care.

Just because people will be horrified in future doesn't make it wrong now. Maybe future society will be wrong about what's best !! Future is not always improvement. In any domain.

Eating meat everyday. Bad for us, bad for the planet.

Coil fitting without any pain relief!

Dental care being so hard to access.

@XenoBitch have I missed something completely..... What's wrong with smear tests?

Long covid is in your mind and can be cured with CBT
ME is in your mind and can be cured with CBT
POTS is in your mind and can be cured with CBT
Actually any illness that doesn’t fit the nice tidy little boxes and we dint quite understand yet is in your mind and can be cured with CBT
Medical gaslighting too but I suspect this one will still be there in 50 years time.

Well said!!!

Actually any illness that doesn’t fit the nice tidy little boxes and we dint quite understand yet is in your mind and can be cured with CBT

And if CBT doesn't work for you it's because you didn't try hard enough,m.

Probably a bit more out than 50 years but dialysis, chemotherapy, lack of male contraceptive pill, plastic food packaging,

Short car journeys.

Childbirth 🤷🏻‍♀️ especially how "overdue" mums, like me, are bullied into procedures they don't want 😒

Atypical antipsychotics like quetiapine/Seroquel being prescribed willy-nilly for anxiety, insomnia, emotional dysregulation, augmentation of depression treatment, etc.

These next-gen antipsychotics are a trade-off — broadly speaking, compared to the older antipsychotics there's a lower incidence of temporary or permanent movement disorders, but higher incidence of extreme weight gain and diabetes. If you would've needed antipsychotics anyway, then it's good that there are more choices now. But it horrifies me that people who would never have been recommended older drugs like trifluoperazine/Stelazine or haloperidol/Haldol are now offered quetiapine/Seroquel as if it's no more of a big deal than taking fluoxetine/Prozac.

Not the case. Eating another organism and it going through the carbon cycle again is far better environmentally than many vegan alternatives.

Lack of proper pain management in labour and the silly idea that natural is always best

Teflon.

Unnecessary use of antibiotics.

Driver-controlled cars.