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- From: geb@dsl.pitt.edu (gordon e. banks)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: FDA still at large
- Message-ID: <15889@pitt.UUCP>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 15:32:31 GMT
- References: <1992Jul27.150817.15333@fylz.wa.com> <15854@pitt.UUCP> <h2mm4m_.sss@netcom.com>
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- Organization: Decision Systems Laboratory, Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA.
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- In article <h2mm4m_.sss@netcom.com> sss@netcom.com (Small Systems Solutions) writes:
- >In article <15854@pitt.UUCP>
- > geb@dsl.pitt.edu (gordon e. banks) writes:
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- >>I suppose it was homeopaths and chiropractors that discovered the
- >>benefits of a low fat diet in heart disease? But what do you do
- >>with people who have clogged arteries already and are about to
- >>die from them? Too late for them to try the low fat diet.
- >>Just let them croak?
- >
- >Maybe...compare the cost of the bypass, and all comcomitant therapies, with
- >granting basic health care to 100 people. Bypass surgery will improve
- >quality of life for some individuals (surgeons, in particular), but it
- >is very expensive (even at the tenfold reduction in cost over the last
- >ten years).
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- "OK, Mr. Jones, we've decided that instead of giving you your bypass,
- we'll just confiscate your $20,000 and use it to provide basic health care
- to 100 homeless people. You won't be needing the money anyway
- where you're going." Do you see the problem with this?
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- Gordon Banks N3JXP | "Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and
- geb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon."
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