Apt Phrase: Can you be a misanthrope and still lov…
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Oscar the death predicting cat. Kind of makes you…
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Oscar the death predicting cat. Kind of makes you wonder about some of the legends about cats.
Bottled Lies: I’ve always suspected this about bot…
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Bottled Lies: I've always suspected this about bottled water.
Drug the Water: The move to put statins in the wat…
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Drug the Water: The move to put statins in the water is afoot in England:
Cholesterol-lowering drugs should be offered to all men over 50 and women over 60 as an effective “shortcut” to prevent heart disease, a government adviser has proposed.
Roger Boyle, the national director for heart disease and stroke, said that a “blanket approach” to give everyone above a certain age a daily dose of statins would save lives, NHS funding and doctors’ time.
Careful, there. They are not completely risk free. And they aren't cheap:
Such a move would double the number of people taking the drug on prescription to about 6 million, which would bring the total cost of the drugs to more than £1 billion a year. Last year the cost of prescribing the drugs was about £550 million.
This commenter has is spot on:
That's right, dose everyone up until you find out that the medication is worse for you than the cholesterol was. Then give lawyers millions of pounds to administer £3.50 compensation. I think we've been here before.
Cholesterol-lowering drugs should be offered to all men over 50 and women over 60 as an effective “shortcut” to prevent heart disease, a government adviser has proposed.
Roger Boyle, the national director for heart disease and stroke, said that a “blanket approach” to give everyone above a certain age a daily dose of statins would save lives, NHS funding and doctors’ time.
Careful, there. They are not completely risk free. And they aren't cheap:
Such a move would double the number of people taking the drug on prescription to about 6 million, which would bring the total cost of the drugs to more than £1 billion a year. Last year the cost of prescribing the drugs was about £550 million.
This commenter has is spot on:
That's right, dose everyone up until you find out that the medication is worse for you than the cholesterol was. Then give lawyers millions of pounds to administer £3.50 compensation. I think we've been here before.
Bad Behavior: Another badly behaved doctor: A loc…
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Bad Behavior: Another badly behaved doctor:
A local doctor who works in a Spanish-speaking medical practice is in federal custody after he admitted calling in three bomb threats to a Northwest Airlines jetliner, prompting the plane's return to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on Wednesday.
....According to the federal complaint against Chiu filed Thursday, Chiu checked luggage on to Northwest Airlines flight 980 under the name of a co-worker on Wednesday, but he tried to board the plane after the door was closed and wasn't allowed to enter.
Now why would he check in under an assumed name? His driver's license had expired?
Some enterprising doctor with creative writing talent could put these badly behaved doctor stories into a composite and sell them to a magazine as first-hand personal experiences about how degraded our profession has become.
A local doctor who works in a Spanish-speaking medical practice is in federal custody after he admitted calling in three bomb threats to a Northwest Airlines jetliner, prompting the plane's return to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on Wednesday.
....According to the federal complaint against Chiu filed Thursday, Chiu checked luggage on to Northwest Airlines flight 980 under the name of a co-worker on Wednesday, but he tried to board the plane after the door was closed and wasn't allowed to enter.
Now why would he check in under an assumed name? His driver's license had expired?
Some enterprising doctor with creative writing talent could put these badly behaved doctor stories into a composite and sell them to a magazine as first-hand personal experiences about how degraded our profession has become.