a rainy wednesday, middle of the week in a town ready for its summer
holidays, from today’s new york times:
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Last year, 386,645 Chinese workers died of occupational illnesses---
More than 16 percent of Americans — as many as 35 million people — suffer
from depression severe enough to warrant treatment at some time in their
lives---
While SARS cases had been reported in 32 countries, only Taiwan had suffered
a sustained outbreak---
In a 1999 study, the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine
reported that each year, medical errors kill 44,000 to 98,000 hospital
patients in the United States — more than the number killed by vehicle
accidents or breast cancer. The study found that the largest number of those
deaths, at least 7,000, were due to medication errors---
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figures and words, this our window onto the world.
bolzano, 7.37 --- anny ballardini
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