Thanks to the internet and modern over the counter “cures”, it is amazing how little one actually needs a general practitioner these days.
And regarding the toe, I had no idea what a godsend modern anti-bacterial creams are.
Read ‘Spoon River Anthology,’ short poems about people in the local cemetery. Many of them died young from infections that are easily treated today or from tetanus, which is generally avoided.
It’s sad to think of the young lives cut short by the little accidents of life that we don’t give two thoughts about today.