When I grew up in the 1950s

 Death was all around me and I knew it. Even at age 2 I expected to die from whooping cough. This was just sort of expected at the time. Doctors were not held accountable like they are now with malpractice insurance so they could tell you almost anything and you might not have the ability to do anything about it then. So most people didn't trust doctors in the 1950s and only went to the hospital to fix broken arms or legs or because they expected to die there. So, many people in the 1950s were just so scared from bad stories that had happened to relatives that they would refuse to go to the hospital and often died miserably at home or anywhere away from a hospital then. This is just how most people were then that I knew.
My parents didn't believe in hospitals then either and they refused (because it was legal to do then because of religion) any shots for me. So, my first shot was at age 15 when an old blind dog bit me at a house I was doing electrical work on with my Dad then during one summer. So, legally I was required to get my first shot, a tetanus shot which would have been in 1963 at age 15. This meant my "Herd immunity" is much stronger than people who have had shots so my immune system is more like people had in the 1800s than now.
When my appendix burst in 2015 they couldn't even diagnose it because I didn't have an elevated white cell count or a fever either which was how they would have diagnosed a burst appendix for anyone else who had had shots. I didn't have these symptoms because my immune system is at least 10 or more times stronger than anyone who has had shots. So, I wasn't even diagnosed properly for 7 days while I thought I was dying.After the operation I spent 5 days to a week in the hospital recovering. I was 67 then.
Also, they are beginning to treat a burst appendix with anti-biotics now instead of an operation because this often keeps people from dying of sepsis from a burst appendix Laparoscopic operation.
I have spoken with people who spent 4 to 6 weeks in the hospital from a burst appendix and almost died from sepsis during this time. I even met one man who had to have a colostomy bag and cannot sit on a toilet anymore because of this condition. So, My thought is using anti-biotics to avoid people dying of sepsis is about time.
The body will usually encapulate the burst appendix and form a pus pocket and often an operation just gives a person sepsis that they can die from. So, the anti-biotics allow the body to dispose of the appendix and ensuing infection itself.
I kind of wish now they had just given me anti-biotics too because coughing from something they shoved down my windpipe to prevent dying on operating table from reflux for 30 days caused me to have a hernia from the coughing. Now I have to live with a hernia the rest of my life as a result.
By the time they properly diagnosed me 1 week later my body had already formed a pus pocket and had completely eaten up the appendix that had exploded. So, the operation was not only not needed it was counterproductive and now I have a hernia to live with the rest of my life.