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From: "David Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 3:31 PM
Subject: RE: possible to anonymise? DNA Database etc, Indie page 8


> On 2 Sep 2003 at 11:10, Owen Lewis wrote:
>
> > > 2.  hospitals are mainly too small, actually, for them to be as
> > > good as we would like them to be at various things.
> >
> > - When a sick lady of 84 is told she must get herself (or be ferried at
> > quite unnecessary expense) some 30-40 miles on a weekly basis to have
her
> > blood sample drawn,  bureaucracy has run mad.
>
> While I wouldn't go as far as Owen in my invective I too look on calls
> for bigger, more remote medical "facilities" with a great deal of
> distrust.
>
> It's all very well to talk of, "rapid transit to a hospital", but the
> reality of large hospitals built in fields in the middle of nowhere is
> that they have been designed by motorists for motorists. This of course
> has nothing to do with the long links between (most of) the medical mob
> and the motoring lobby. They may have a token bus service, provided for
> loosers, but that's it.
>
> I did note sadly that the last (edge of town) hospital I visited
> appeared to have precisely zero cycle parking spaces for visitors, a
> largish car park and a token bus service with a bus stop far further
> away from the entrance than the favoured motorists could park. It
> didn't surprise me, but it is still sad. Cycling there involved to
> involve negotiating a large high speed roundabout while going uphill,
> not a pleasant thought. Inside the hospital they were treating medical
> conditions caused by the sedentary lifestyle the hospital is
> encouraging.
>
>
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