"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
Down Under: The World Health Organization subjected Australia to the same sort of faulty statisitcal analysis used by the Institute of Medicine and found their hospitals dangerous:
According to the World Health Report 2002 almost 17 per cent of patients suffer "measurable" harm while undergoing unrelated treatment in health care facilities.
That figure is well ahead of the next-highest nations on the list, the United Kingdom and Denmark where the risk is assessed at 10 percent and the United States where the risk factor is less than 4 percent.
