Primum non nocere.
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"Is US Health Really the Best in the World?"
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"Death by Medicine"
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Just for interest, let's have a look what is available on the official UK channels;
"The Publication Hub remains the first port of call for all those seeking the latest statistics from government departments in the UK. It is the central website for hosting all first releases of National Statistics."
"The term 'National Statistics' is an accreditation kitemark which stands for a range of qualities such as relevance, integrity, quality, accessibility, value for money and freedom from political influence. Data classed as National Statistics provide an up-to-date, comprehensive and meaningful description of the UK's economy and society."
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"Our mission is to improve understanding of life in the United Kingdom and enable informed decisions through trusted, relevant, and independent statistics and analysis."
This must be the right place then: |
It's here, if you want it... Health Statistics Quarterly - No.1, Spring 1999: Death certification and the epidemiologist (Pdf 109Kb)
hmm... Ok, lets try one more... Ah! Authority!
Great!!! there is obviously nothing like this happening in the UK!
But then.... They said... I thought i read...
I give up... Let's go somewhere else...
Just a little snippet of news;
"In 2008, the latest year for which figures are available, UK men at age 65 had 9.9 years of healthy life expectancy compared with 17.6 years of life expectancy, while UK women at age 65 had 11.5 years of healthy life expectancy compared with 20.2 years of life expectancy."
So, maybe it's not that nowadays we live that much longer, maybe we're kept alive that much longer...
"Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship to restrict the art of healing to one class of men and deny equal privileges to others: The Constitution of this Republic should make a special privilege for medical freedom as well as religious freedom."
Dr. Benjamin Rush, signer of the Declaration of Independence