Vintage Science: The Knick (Steven Soderbergh, 2014)

Antibiotic treatments are a major advancement in human healthcare. As we are upon the season of taking care of our winter ailments, sometimes we tend to forget that. Or, at the very least, we lack some perspective, on how it was before and what it took to get us to where we are now in terms of modern medicine. This could be the opening statement to any paper that I would currently be trying to grasp. Instead, it is the underlying feeling that rests with us upon seeing Cinemax’s series The Knick.

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