Tom
Dead Man Walking, eh?
Seriously, in my generation we were trained to avoid making statements like "you'll be dead in x months" etc. If you quote the average survival figure, half the patients live longer and appear in pulp magazines saying "my doctor told me I'd be dead a year ago but these crushed baobab kernals kept me alive".
If you quote the 1st SD, most of them don't live that long and some never get their affairs in order or make peace with their families, which is a tragedy.
All we ever said was that statistically, these are your odds. They are only "odds", some people do better and some worse. And here's what you can do to improve your odds.
Nasty topic. What happened to your cervical fracture?
regards
JR
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
