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Saturday, February 11, 2023

'I knew much more then than I do now"

A few years ago I spent some time doing "well baby" exam on employees and the executives of a large international company. The emphasis was on prevention or "preventative" (this had become a real word) medicine.

"Determining" the risk of a heart attack for an individual patient was routine.Determining  is in quotes because that seems to be a verb to use to magnify or exagerate the imporance or validity of what may be an educated or partially educated guess or even something less valid than that i.e. something you just make up.


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