Believe it or not, this complex decision-making is fun stuff and what all physicians should be about, but most have chosen more limited options, with significantly poorer health outcomes.
Why else would we allow 673 people to die in prescription drug errors in the past 5 weeks? Or 38,462 in smoking related deaths? (Philadelphia Inquirer via Akron Beacon Journal article on Daily Habits of most Americans more deadly than anthrax)
Other causes of death in this 5 week period - Flu-related 6,124; Auto 4,080; Alcohol 1835; Murders 1618; AIDS 1412; Anthrax 4.
Oh and by the way, family physicians are in the front lines in the war against nearly all of these threats to our citizens.
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