Medicine has sure come a long way since I was a young woman. I was in the hospital the other day with my son. He had fallen off his roof while putting on new shingles, and while he didn’t get too seriously hurt, they still wanted him to stay the night for observations. Anyway, the nurse came in every few hours to check his blood pressure, and I was amazed at the automatic blood pressure monitor she used. In my day, they had to pump the things up and then listen to your arm through a stethoscop












