Comments on: Can too much disease prevention be hazardous to your health? http://www.whytheheck.com/2008/12/04/can-too-much-disease-prevention-be-hazardous-to-your-health/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:25:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: alewis http://www.whytheheck.com/2008/12/04/can-too-much-disease-prevention-be-hazardous-to-your-health/comment-page-1/#comment-388 alewis Mon, 09 Feb 2009 19:48:16 +0000 http://www.thinkoob.com/?p=67#comment-388 Wanna make sure that readers (and judging by the number of comments apparently not many people are reading this; I will agree that it is not as exciting as some other stuff) realize I am focused only on the economics. I gotta think the people who seet these guidelines know something about the science. And it is possible that there are a whole bunch of attacks prevented which would not lead to an ER visit, but which are worth preventing nonetheless. Stiil, the economics are quite clear: it costs a lot of money to prevent an ER visit Wanna make sure that readers (and judging by the number of comments apparently not many people are reading this; I will agree that it is not as exciting as some other stuff) realize I am focused only on the economics. I gotta think the people who seet these guidelines know something about the science. And it is possible that there are a whole bunch of attacks prevented which would not lead to an ER visit, but which are worth preventing nonetheless.

Stiil, the economics are quite clear: it costs a lot of money to prevent an ER visit

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