[been_lurking]

The doctors died. But, the patient with five years to live is still doing great, twenty-four years later. How's that?

I've heard of patients like that. They drive their heart doctors to an early grave. :)

Good on him!

[summer]

I've heard of patients like that. They drive their heart doctors to an early grave. :)

Actually, that's not it at all! My dad decided: the aspirin is a miracle drug. He got off a lot of these other drugs, and just stuck with the aspirin. And, he did that way before the rest of the medical community agreed with his first doctor about the benefit of aspirins.

The doctors who died did not do enough preventive health care for themselves, in my dad's layman opinion.