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Matt Edgar

As a skeptic of accelerationism, I enjoyed this perspective on Victorian anxieties, including the diagnosis of "train heart" and doctors' reaction to the original telemedicine
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There were obvious perks to these new technologies: They made telemedicine possible before the internet, and gave some doctors a commercial edge over their rivals. But this hyper-connectivity had consequences. “Advice and explanation,” one physician argued, were too “easily asked for.” Patients were now able to contact their doctors over any small, inconsequential matter which required the “sacrifice of much time and labour from an overworked man.”
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