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TW: medical things.
I've been helping the old man with building a medical registry for the last decade. It ended up being a really interesting project with a lot of stats (and a great bonding thing). Anyway he's giving a talk soon so helping him out with the powerpoint stuff scanning things etc.
Last night he showed me:
spoiler
One of the first survival graphs (it was the original document) for the precursor to that sub-specialty. My jaw dropped. What it shows is how quickly things were moving at the beginning and how they were all over it in the early 50's. No software, just a pen and typewriter.
It's pretty cool. I've come across papers on JSTOR and other research that always makes me think: a) they already knew all this?! b) our whole health literacy is not great. (Like being sedentary is not good for you? Yeah, they were already writing about that in the 50s.)