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WoahNoun on Aug 20, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Secret gyms and the economics of prohibition

100 years ago if you cut yourself shaving, you might die and no doctor could help. We have since upgraded our expectations in medical outcomes.

paganel on Aug 20, 2020 [–]

> yourself shaving, you might die and no doctor could help

In my parts of the world (Eastern Europe) often times the barber was also the doctor and the dentist (was called "felcer).

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