1. Mental illness - choice between food or medicine
    Harold A. Maio Harold A. Maio United States says:
    July 22, 2009 at 8:29 PM

    A recent survey by mental health charity SANE Australia, involving 371 patients, has found that many (of those surveyed) Australians with mental illness are often forced to choose between medical treatment and putting food on the table.

    I do not deny the finding. Too many people are forced to make the choice between food and medicine. I do not know the meaning of "many" in this particular survey: Out of 371, how many? Surely the survey was that precise. I can easily count from 1 to 371. How many precisely were forced to choose? (That is called research.)

    Harold A. Maio, retired Mental Health Editor

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