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jack the knife wrote:Well, Dags, in the old days a doc had to rely on the PHYSICAL EXAMINATION to make a diagnosis. He didn't have MRIs and ultrasounds to help. I remember being a medical student rotating through Surgery when a senior resident pontificated, "The physical exam ain't worth the powder to blow it up." And that was a long time ago! In the old days, a surgeon, based on his findings and the medical history related by the patient, would hoist the kid onto the kitchen table, give some ether - if he had some - through a gauze mask, and take out the kid's appendix. "Memoirs of a Small-Town Surgeon" by John Brooks Wheeler (1935) makes for some fascinating reading. That small town was in Vermont, so I have some bias in that regard. 
I admire those old guys, the pioneers, who blazed the trail for future surgeons to follow. They knew their stuff! Sorry for the rant, but your post struck a chord with me.
Very interesting history of the medical field, Jack.....the few times I've needed medical info for my stories I either google, or ask a surgeon friend of mine, but it is nice to have another resource on hand.....And just for the record you don't look old enough to know all that ole time medicine.
Very good and interesting question...I think it depends on the story content and if it fits. In my story Beyond Paradise I try to tread a thin line between inferred and explicit. My characters have rougher edges, so I will dig a litle deeper because I feel it goes with the feel of my story.
A historic romance on the oher hand is a completely different genre than mine, so a gentler approach is probably warranted. I have read some very good stories with explicit sex but again I'm not into erotica just for the sex. I need to have a plot and characters that are reacting to sex the way they react to their own lives.
My characters are tougher with a little street in them so I think it would be unrealistic of me as a writer to write them having these prissy sex lives...Great topic for conversation and look forward to other views.....
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