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Saturday, March 10, 2007
BRITISH DOCTORS TO PRESCRIBE CARPETS AND SWIMMING LESSONS
British doctors could soon be prescribing thick pile carpets and swimming lessons alongside the usual prescription medicines and drugs under new government plans announced this week by Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt. Under the plans, doctors are to be asked to provide a much wider range of services. These will include sending teenagers with violent tendencies to anger management classes, offering free swimming lessons to obese patients, air conditioning to people with lung disease and a thick pile carpet to frail elderly people to limit their injuries in a fall. Apparently it’s hoped the new plans will save the National Health Service millions of pounds by preventing people from becoming ill in the first place. At the end of the day it’s all about money. I’m not sure what planet Patricia Hewitt is living on. Obviously not this one. If our cash-strapped National Health Service has no money to fund operations, I’m not sure where the money is going to come from to fund these “services”. Only time will tell if the new plans are successful.
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Good idea. Fat children make fat adults. Of course they could kick all the unhealthy burger and chicken franchises out that would help. I fully agree with Prince Charles.
Wish our doctors here would put more effort into helping children with AIDS. They left it to late and we have hundreds of thousands either with AIDS or without parents who died from AIDS.
Will add your links next time I am in Blogger :)
I agree Jackie, a lot of the obesity we are now seeing in children is due to bad diet and lack of exercise. Aids, like cancer is a terrible threat to our society. It's particularly sad when you see children suffering from it. Just adding your links now. Take Care. NAOMI
I think that weight control education is a good idea. I once took a group class in nutrition and we learned to eat and cook healthier. Now, I'm educated and the real trick is to motivate. If our health insurance or in your case, national health coverage, could do this, it would go a long way toward healthier Americans and Brits. The carpeting seems odd.
I agree Sheila, the money would be better spent on educating people in proper diet and exercise to keep themselves healthy. The elderly are still going to fall and injure themselves, the carpet won't make a lot of difference.
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