I wonder, how long where people living 50 years ago compared to how long they live now? Let's find go out! 50 years ago people were only expected to live until 40 isn’t that crazy. I mean people today can live to 114. So I bet you cant imagine how far we came in medical technology. Back then " the first non-blood transfusion was done in 1914". That was 100 years ago but a tiny bit more recent "The first heart and lung transplant was performed in 1967." Which is a huge deal. So many people would be dead if that was not done, now 900,000 people get heart disease a year but if not for that they would most likely be dead. Now a little bit about one of my favorite medicine inventions, the laser.”The laser was invented in 1960”. The laser is one
