The funny thing about all of this is that the death records they refer to are mostly made up. When it became against the law to put ‘old age’ as the cause of death, most Docs just guessed the cause. Less then 1% of deaths are autopsied now so there is no confirmation of cause. And now you can’t say ‘died of heart attack’. You have a cardiac event w/ another underlying cause. Docs get the call all the time to fill out death certs on patients they haven’t seen in weeks or months. Mr. X died in the nursing home last night, please fill out death certificate w/ time, cause etc. We are Data Mining shit data and making policy from it. Don’t even get me started on the opioid issues…
June 27th, 2019 at 5:58 pm
Some deaths are more interesting than others. I am certain that I won’t care about mine, after it happens.
June 28th, 2019 at 7:11 am
I wonder what the actual vs. reality Russian Collusion graph would look like.
June 28th, 2019 at 2:48 pm
The funny thing about all of this is that the death records they refer to are mostly made up. When it became against the law to put ‘old age’ as the cause of death, most Docs just guessed the cause. Less then 1% of deaths are autopsied now so there is no confirmation of cause. And now you can’t say ‘died of heart attack’. You have a cardiac event w/ another underlying cause. Docs get the call all the time to fill out death certs on patients they haven’t seen in weeks or months. Mr. X died in the nursing home last night, please fill out death certificate w/ time, cause etc. We are Data Mining shit data and making policy from it. Don’t even get me started on the opioid issues…
June 28th, 2019 at 7:15 pm
Now let’s see a plot of Bill Gates’ health related charity vs cause of death…
June 28th, 2019 at 11:13 pm
Phenicks, “In the end, all deaths can be attributed to heart failure.”