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To: mph who wrote (13390)	2/27/2006 11:44:27 AM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (2) of 541503

Do you think hospitals should encourage the most healthy options for their patients, or knowingly allow (and co-operate with) the promotion of less healthy, more expensive 'options' which will also cause more health problems (and costs) for the individual in later life? This individual is a new-born baby so not able to choose. His parents may choose; but equally they might choose to smoke in hospital, yet we don't allow that (here it's not allowed in private rooms, either, I assume the same is true in the US). When it comes to health there is a best way. And surely it is the duty of any responsible doctor to point that out, and not to encourage alternatives known to be worse and more liable to cause harm. Why do you think a hospital might do the latter? As Karen points out these are private hospitals, entirely dependent on funding from sources other than the state... As for slurs about the 'left' and 'PCism', such would naturally be interpreted as prejudiced bigotry and thus weaken any argument relying on them.

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