On 02/25/98 09:31:52, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>Cynic mode on: is the smear progam worth £70M(?) per year?
>When death rates in our district are down to 10-15 per year?
>When the number of false positives in my practice seems like one a
>week?
Put differently, it costs 4-500,000 pounds/life saved
Compare with a kidney dialysis programme, for example, where it costs
35,000/life saved.
Ahmad
"The Future is in Beta"
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