>>Ok, sweeping generalisations:
>>At what thresholds/boundaries will this aim stop?
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>This is something that we have to work on. Not formulated fully yet.
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>>Should terminal cancer patients still receive chemotherapy for a few
>>months extra 'life' (crappy quality though talking to a vomit bowel, etc)?
>
>They should be given a lethal injection to die in diginity.
>
>>Should drug abusers get de-tox?
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>Yes, but apply the '3 strike' rule.
>
>>Should smokers get CABG's?
>
>Only if they continue to subsidise the economoy by c.8 billion pounds a
>year ;-)
We run the risk here of moralising.
I presume, Ahmad, in your future NHS, passing valued judgements is not
part of medical care?
I think one needs to go back to WHO statement of basic needs to define
basic acceptable healthcare.
That should be NHS Lite.
Then one lists all possible interventions and prioritises for the next
level of service.
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Katie
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