[lit-ideas] Re: Health and Efficiency
- From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 23:41:06 -0700
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-15039216
I'm wondering how the tale strikes other people. To me the story is that a
treatment gives a person possibly fourteen months to live, as opposed to the
"dummy" group--what a term--of eleven. This is so significant, the trial has
to be stopped early?
I suppose the question I'm raising is how much of an improvement is newsworthy?
Most patients live three days longer? Two weeks?
David Ritchie,
not counting days in
Portland, Oregon
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