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LIF By Graham H Associated Pr LONDON ? How worth in an age w you can save it medical techno! prohibitive expense The debate is Britain, where National Health S mainly from genei this question: can afford the best? New drugs and brain scanners and heart mnnitnrs f I1VMK V A**vaaat>v> % neutron treatm washing machines operations, all remarkable a diagnosing and tre But the cost is i The British Met written by and foi said that replacing costs $3,500. A body enables doctors t< body without s $585,000. *\t?n ahpi? U?iD/ll?i LClllCI scanner because it into medicine befoi assessed, unlike tli cost-effective b developed earlier, couldn't afford accepted them I which raised tne c public agitation fo Pat Seed, a joi cashire, was awar Empire Medal thi raising $2.34 milli cancer center in M, body scanner, its 1; a building to house to run it for 10 ve Ms. Seed wen weeks of diagnosis pos I tive (paz' a tiv Expressed clearly Full a Self-assured Certain in action Logical affirmant speculative Highest pot Aftirming the presence < which is sough; nr sii^nprtprl n< being correct A Richland Memorial h with many professior the one right declsloi location and lifestyle advancement In the The first step towarc informative brochur positive alternative. -n 3301 HARC Mr. Ms. ' Address ! City Phone Colleo? Unlver?lty. D?gr?? j RN 78 _ Modern t can pe\ the cost leathcote weeks of explor ess Writer discover she was much is a life hen it's known Then she read in with modern body scanner coi ogy but at it in 20 minutes. i? had been disco\ earlier, she m heating up in therapy that cou the state-run Service, funded Ms. Seed k] al taxes, faces would not help he it continue to have enjoyed marriage and wanted other m new surgery have the chancc body scanners, liyes with their :ancer therapy ent, kidneyI8"*1 rep're'sent THE UEPAR dvances in says thrf Brit a ting illness. cancer at some and two of thre n..i ii J 4 jdui uie ueparui something else, authorities to he iical Journal, body scanners \ * medical men, assessment of t ; a heart valve scanner, which The Lancet > look inside a we iciy says ylc urgery, costs (jiagn0stic advai of society's abil: It also noted si *s on the body selling and runi was introduced fees charged for re its value was United States, le clinically and ^ . rain scanner, ?r.a*n. a .. Hncnitnk u/hirh British inventio body scanners developed From charities elsewhere. Elc :ash and stirred Industries of F r the machines. cen* l^e nej operating in tl irnalist in Lan- the end of this ded the British study found th* s past April for for nearly half on to equip the installed or or anchester with a bringing in inked computer, revenue ? an a ; it and the cash sales are lik ars. limited." The study, pr t through five Stocking and St 5, including two Sussex Univers ') issufed al ter l,s.. A propoj Wnt 9 ll mS * b mt uiiGiiiry ential tor deciC 3f that 11^ courses H-1 mm ^ m "i il ' chosen Positive uternatn **? " hospital Is the positive alternative for today's lal opportunities, the ultimate decision is sin< n for you. This decision brings with It all th , the necessary professional Incentives, and th health care field. I selecting your positive alternative can be ta e that fully illustrates why Richland Memi ^ YVT7 n RICH wUnM':M<" )EN STREET COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROL Date o State RN LPN Student, Date o EQUAL OPPORTUNI" i mamm wm sammm wmM mama mmmm mhr mb mmmm am medical tech rform miracl is often prol atory surgery, to "evidence at i terminal cancer. effect on th patient's cond a magazine that a limited an ild have diagnosed whelming. And if her disease ered and treated ght have gotten IN THE I Id have saved her. scanners als< symbol of lew the scanner technology ar >r. But she said. "I escalate the < a very happy particularly if home life and I en and women to rp^e Qffic of having longer Assessment, families. advisory age study release that scannei TMENT of Health ^S^evid ons in 10 will get justify cost. time in their lives Jfedera, , e will die from it authority t0 Cl lent advised health medical techl .Id off from buying government w j-hile it awaited an ?ew regulatk heir effectiveness. if a iiivaoiu it ii situations in t another medical ices wiU rmTahead Critics ofth =rch'Gr aggermg costs in , M h N d ling scanners and B0V?rnment I treatments in the ^ ^ls ! ody scanners are Critics say tl ns which have been on acquiring n by companies further study ictric and Musical machines sav Britain sold 54 per- run. More als< irly 1,000 scanners they say, abou tie United States at on patients, li past June. A recent machines res it the firm accounts I ment or imp] the 2,000 scanners say. i order worldwide, valuable export nomaly when home ely to be "very epared by Barbara uart L. Morrison of ity, concludes that na tive (ol tur' nativ)] it?on of situation 3 choice An opportunity mg between Things, or propositions to be i f /e nurse. Althouch faced lular. You must make b values you cherish; e total opportunity for ken now. Send for our >rlal Hospital Is your lND I I A T UAL ? ? ? ?| ^ ^ ^ IN A 292051 | I f birth I A fY EMPLOYER MFHJ mology es but hibitive v? )out the scanner's e outcome of the lition is as yet very d hardly overJnited States, CT ) have become a *0 costly medical id testing that can :ost of health care, s overused. e of Technology Congress scientific Ay ncy reported in a d this past summer ? rs are going into use without good I" "lence that benefits The report said no Koo Q^onno fa uv,jr nao auwijuuvv antrol expensive new lology and that the ould have to develop >ns and cost-control : didn't want similar lie future. le proliferation of CT ich as the Health oup Associated with mm A i r, nave asked tne I AAUI to put a moratorium buying scanners. here should be a hold ew CT scanners until j shows whether the p e money in the long ^ d needs to be known, it the scanners' effect ke whether using the ults in better treat"oved survival, they CA 1 CDDIUO I armnui make it out ""? march 25 $ ovations must b limited spa ontact the travel !k?V * > <3 W . j ;f MI h. 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