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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!pitt!speedy.cs.pitt.edu!km
  2. From: km@speedy.cs.pitt.edu (Ken Mitchum)
  3. Newsgroups: sci.med
  4. Subject: Re: "'X' Days/Weeks/Months/Years To Live"
  5. Message-ID: <15740@pitt.UUCP>
  6. Date: 21 Jul 92 14:31:09 GMT
  7. References: <1992Jul18.190219.159@news.wesleyan.edu>
  8. Sender: news@cs.pitt.edu
  9. Reply-To: km@cs.pitt.edu (Ken Mitchum)
  10. Organization: Computer Science Dept., University of Pittsburgh
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  13. In article <1992Jul18.190219.159@news.wesleyan.edu- RGINZBERG@eagle.wesleyan.edu (Ruth Ginzberg) writes:
  14. -Funny thing:  I know lots of folks who claim to have been told by their doctors
  15. -that they have "'X' days/weeks/months/years to live", but I know (or even know
  16. -OF) absolutely no doctors who claim ever to have said any such thing to their
  17. -patients.  What do you suppose accounts for this data discrepancy?
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  19. Since we doctors all lie to our patients, why shouldn't we lie to
  20. you as well?
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  22.  -km
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