Smokers and Alcoholics should not get free operations

[Tosh]

At least 4 in 10 doctors think that way. Seems that the Doctors want to be able to make a call that says "if it was self inflicted, treatment should not be free".

 

The issues mentioned are drink, ciggies and fat

 

Grauniad

 

Interesting idea, although impossible to implement (ignoring the issue of undermining the NHS ethos). Should a car accident victim, who was not wearing a seat belt, get treated? Or the helmetless cyclist? Or the car-flattened pedestrian wearing dark clothes on a winters night?

[John am Rhein]

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Edited June 29, 2006 by John L

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