Blooming Wellness
Dr. Eek's Health & Wellness Blog
America has always had a love affair with celebrating freedom through controlled explosions. Today, we mostly worry about fireworks causing burns or sending someone to the emergency room. Some people will lose fingers, cuz they just don’t listen or they’re too drunk to listen. But around the turn of the 20th century, doctors feared something …
Welcome to Public Health Is Weird—a series where I dig up some of history’s strangest (but true) public health stories. This one is about shoe store x-rays. Watch the Reel View this post on Instagram A post shared by EeKs (@doctoreeks) When X-Rays Became a Shoe Shopping Experience Imagine walking into a shoe store, slipping …
For decades, smoking on airplanes was completely normal. Passengers lit cigarettes during flights. Ashtrays were built into armrests. Flight attendants worked entire shifts surrounded by secondhand smoke. And perhaps most bizarrely, airlines often designated separate “smoking” and “non-smoking” sections—as if tobacco smoke politely stopped at Row 18 and refused to travel any farther. Welcome to …
