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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Lane3 who wrote (65537)5/13/2008 3:24:10 PM
From: biotech_bull  Read Replies (1) of 541842
 
Oregon's experience showed how small improvements in huge numbers of relatively healthy young people (for example, millions of kids whose happiness is 1 percent higher .....folks with cystic fibrosis whose happiness is 10 percent higher from pricey antibiotics to treat their pneumonias

lane3,

These metrics are so subjective and usually fail in real world situations. How in the world can a kid reliably tell a 1% or even a 10% difference in happiness?

As for communicating end-of-life issues I find addressing the patient as a unique individual is a lot more effective rather than using some questionable statistic that may or may not apply.
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