Some unordered ideas on the topic:
- A lot of medical supply stockpiles will be vaporized in TDM or post-TDM destruction. Some supplies will be ok while other stuff will be completely gone by 1999 let alone 2001.
- One advantage T2K survivors have over the past is just more and more widespread medical knowledge. The average nurse in a rural clinic in 1997 is going to have a lot more medical knowledge than one in 1945 or 1865. A lot more injuries and illnesses will be treatable even in poor conditions just because the body of medical knowledge is more complete and more widely disseminated.
- Just knowing why clean water is necessary and how to sterilize equipment will help people medically in T2K.