Re: latest news

MrCheerful wrote:
|| "Peter Saxton" <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
|| news:1gus235s8ek6g7mji16comfej5psm2r94i@xxxxxxxxxx
||| On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 21:15:17 GMT, "MrCheerful" <nbkm57@xxxxxxxxxxx>
||| wrote:
|||
|||| I have just heard a spin doctor say 'that hospital death rates are
|||| unimportant compared to quality of life after treatment' If you
|||| are dead there is no quality of life FULL STOP
||||
||| You seem to be missing the obvious point that the hospitals with
||| higher death rates may have better quality of life after treatment
||| for those who survive because they make a better attempt at
||| providing this.
||
|| I would prefer a low quality of life to none at all.


Well speaking as someone who has recently had a personal experience of
hovering between life and death, and has made a recovery which fortunately
gives me a decent quality of life, I can't honestly say that given the
choice between that or finishing my existence in the wretched and terrible
way of some poor unfortunates, that I could really agree with you.



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