I’d be alive, but without cortisone shots my wrists would be owey and I wouldn’t be able to play squash. 
Also, my dad had an egg sized tumor in his lung removed, so provided that my mom doesn’t have to have a talk to me that involves the mailman, I suppose I’d have never been born.
Like some others I would have died giving birth to my 10 lb son. He would have either died then or any of the other 4 times he had a close call in the first week of life. Actually he would be dead without socialized medicine, it was air ambulance to western ontario children’s hospital that saved his life.
I would have been deaf by age 7, or depending on the time frame, seen as a witch or deviant because I am left handed. So yeah, I like this century, and the late part of the last one.
I know a woman who was alive only because a prominent and very skilled surgeon from Harley Street, London happened to be living in her smaller village in rural England during the Blitz. Her son was born at term and healthy after her mother’s appendectomy.
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I would have died as an infant if not for antibiotics.
Exactly. Dying of disease is worse than having autism. (joke)
C-section and glasses here too.
On the flip side, a few friends of mine would have had better odds of surviving pre-opiates.
No, I would have died a couple of weeks ago trying to give birth to Lil’ Neville.
I hadn’t considered that either. I was always moderately myopic, and I was approaching the higher range of myopia when I had RK surgery in the early 90s. On the other hand, I had virtually no astigmatism so my lenses were easy to create. 
I had a staff infection in my leg when I was 10 and they said had it been in the 50’s they would have cut my leg off as at least the knee, maybe further. So probably dead or at least not very much fun if it got cut off…
btw, Benjamin Franklin had glasses so I don’t know if that counts as modern medicine.
If I wasn’t dead I would probably be very sick, and invalid, due to kidney stones and infection. I’ve actually had the one kidney removed.
I’d have lost my daughter, so I’d be as good as dead. Once in PICU for bad asthma attack and once for something else I’d rather not go into.
I read a book about a year ago that talked about how life expectancy grew by 30 years in the 20th century. Of those 30 years, 25 were due to public health and 5 were due to individualized medicine (prescription drugs, surgeries, health screenings, etc). So the impact of individualized medicine on our survival rates is really overstated, most health benefits come from public health efforts to control microbes and ensure proper nutrition.
So it is hard to say. W/o public health, probably not. but there is no telling who would or wouldn’t be alive. With public health but w/o individualized medicine, yeah probably. Most people would be alive w/o that.
Interesting. Same exact thing for me.
Me, maybe, maybe not. I’m pretty sure I would’ve committed suicide back around 1993 if not for antidepressants. Or it would’ve been the very bad uterine infection in 1988.
On the other hand, I know for a fact my daughter would not be alive without modern medicine; she was born with an imperforate anus, and the ability to do the life-saving surgery she had had only been around 8-10 years.
I’d be alive but legally blind (or close) due to congenital cataracts.
Right off the bat, I most likely would’ve died had I been born without modern medical tech around. I was 10 weeks premature, weighed 5 lbs., with a heart condition. In pre-modern times, I would’ve probably been left for dead, so cultural factors would have done me in before lack of medical advancement.
After surviving early infancy thanks to high tech help, I haven’t encountered anything that would’ve killed me in pre-modern times. The few somewhat serious medical issues since (sprains & strains, gastrointestinal issues, vestibular neuronitis) were all in fact of the kind that modern medicine could do squat about: I was told to go home and ride it out, so I did. I rarely take any medicine.
I’d probably still be alive, but my quality of life would suck mightily.
I have rheumatoid arthritis. I could barely walk or hold things. My rheumatologist got me in as a guinea pig for the human studies of Humira, which is a bloody miracle drug as far as I am concerned. I am now in remission.
Dead by age 5 due to a very serious illness that required oxygen tent and antibiotics.
Since then, I’d be doing just fine-- maybe King of the Cave! 
I would have been dead when I was three years old, from anaphylaxis. My ex would have died during our child’s childbirth, from the transverse presentation.
Appendicitis at age 13 would have killed me. My brother and sister also had appendicitis by age 16. My brother was within an hour of having his rupture.
I had a heart attack 47 years ago and doubt that, without drugs I take, I would still be alive even if my appendix spontaneously subsided (possible, I guess).
This is one of those interesting conundrums: 200 years ago, chances are you wouldn’t have had access to the kind of diet that promotes that kind of thing. Or, rather, I don’t know what you’re like but the highest risk group for gallbladder problems is 40+ years old fat females, and overweight is more common now than 200 years back.
Had you managed the gallbladder issues anyway, they might well have ultimately killed you - while most gallbladder attacks aren’t fatal (despite what you hope at the time), they can sometimes turn pretty nasty.
Me: yeah, the gallbladder. Yeah, pre-eclampsia necessitating the c-section to deliver my daughter (who at that age, 6 weeks early, might not have made it). Again, if there’s a connection between overweight and pre-eclampsia then I might have had less chance of developing it 200 years ago (I don’t honestly recall if there is) - but once it had developed, I’da been a goner.
Yeah, the asthma might have killed me. I was raised in a houseful of smokers (less common 200+ years ago) but with fairly decent air quality (200 years ago, in an urbanized area, that was NOT necessarily the case). But if I’d had such severe asthma 200 years ago, it’s a fair bet I’d have been sickly or even dead.
My mother had to be induced to deliver me. I don’t know what the details were (she did mention they had trouble finding the heartbeat at one point) but there’s another point of divergence between Living Me and Dead Me.
And of course all the things that didn’t have the chance to kill me like smallpox, polio etc., but those aren’t really in the spirit of the thread.