Re: R&D Re: Europe, the US, and Environmentalism

[Ronn Blankenship]

At 08:38 PM 7/19/01, you wrote:
>In a message dated 7/19/01 12:34:18 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>writes:
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>  My brother-in-law told me about a decade ago that there were cases where he
>  personally coded "brought back from a stopped heart" a patient on a daily
>  basis.  We have the technology to spend hundreds of thousands per person per
>  year prolonging their lives.  Indeed, IIRC, 40% of medical costs in the US
>  are in the last 8 weeks of life.
>   >>
>True but misleading in a way. Most of us get sick and die.


In fact, I would be hard put to name any exceptions born in, oh, say the 
past 2000 years . . .



--Ronn! :)

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