8mo ago

Long ago, doctors would sometimes treat patients with bloodletting. Now, doctors often treat people with bloodinserting.

Bloodreplacing?

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Bloodgetting
- I bow to you.
  
  That will be three bloods please
  
  It was right there, c'mon.
Get ready for shitreplacing as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fecal_microbiota_transplant
- Its called a transpoosion
- Now this is the enshittification I can support!
  
  I can get behind that!
- Yeah, I couldn't give a shit, but after that miraculous surgery, I'm full of shit again!
Bloodletting is actually still used to treat some diseases - for example it is the primary way to treat Haemochromatosis. Until recently, in the UK at least, people with this condition couldn't donate blood, so it was just thrown away like back then too - though more recently they started allowing donations to help treat hospitalised anaemia.
- Also if you count blood donations, it's currently the only known way to reduce forever chemicals in your blood.
  
  Wish I could donate blood, but alas, I'm on some prescriptions that would make the recipient unhappy, and I'm not about to try not-professionally-conducted bloodletting.
- Yup, I'm on testosterone and have to have "therapeutic phlebotomy" every so often. That's just a fancy name for bloodletting
They actually still do bloodletting, and even use leeches to do it.

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