Very true. My mother was extremely negligent to the kids. Not because she was mean, that's just how she was raised. I almost died from it twice. Once with appendicitis and once when a four inch cut on my foot became infected. I still have the jagged scar. By the time she finally took me to a doctor, it was too late for stitches. No doctor. No dentist. No medicines. We were just on our own. The first time I ever saw a dentist was when I was 18 when I joined the military. The military was perfect for me. I was already used to toughing it out.
My grandmother had 13 children on a farm. My mother was one. She had no use for doctors.
I don't remember ever being quote 'sick' as a child. That is kind of weird in a way, now that I think about it. Like the guy said, nobody cared. Walk it off. Suck it up and get over it. Illness was just not something we had time for.