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Discussion Groups / English Usage / July 2009Death of a healthy person
From: http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-SwineFlu/idUSTRE5685ER20090710 The headline is: "UK records first H1N1 death in healthy patient"  SignatureTony Cooper - Orlando, Florida >From: >http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-SwineFlu/idUSTRE5685ER20090710 > >The headline is: "UK records first H1N1 death in healthy patient" There is one word missing from the headline that is present in the body of the article: "otherwise". LONDON (Reuters) - British health authorities said on Friday they had recorded the first death from H1N1 flu in an otherwise healthy patient. The patient from Essex, eastern England, is the 15th to die in Britain from the virus, but unlike all the others had no underlying health conditions. SignaturePeter Duncanson, UK (in alt.usage.english) >>From: >>http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-SwineFlu/idUSTRE5685ER20090710 [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > Britain from the virus, but unlike all the others had no underlying > health conditions. So, except for dying, the patient was otherwise in good health? SignatureTony Cooper - Orlando, Florida >On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:50:14 +0100, "Peter Duncanson (BrE)" ><mail@peterduncanson.net> wrote: [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > >So, except for dying, the patient was otherwise in good health? Exactly so. Good health is a health condition, is it not? Triple-A rating, the sort of condition we all like. No problem, squire. SignaturePaul >tony cooper <tony_cooper213@earthlink.net> wrote >> [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] >Exactly so. Good health is a health condition, is it not? Triple-A >rating, the sort of condition we all like. No problem, squire. Feel free to ignore "exactly so" (and the rest of it too, if you haven't ignored it already). SignaturePaul >>>From: >>>http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-SwineFlu/idUSTRE5685ER20090710 [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > >So, except for dying, the patient was otherwise in good health? That's correct. The patient was in good health before catching the flu. Previous people in Britain who died of the flu were not in good health before catching the flu. As it says here in a report about the fourth person in Britain to catch the swine flu and die: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article6630493.ece All the people who have so far died in Britain and have tested positive for swine flu were already suffering from underlying health problems, which may have made them vulnerable to infection or complications. SignaturePeter Duncanson, UK (in alt.usage.english) > <tony_cooper213@earthlink.net> wrote: > >So, except for dying, the patient was otherwise in good health? > That's correct. > The patient was in good health before catching the flu. Uh, I think Tony's point is about the period just after that, in between catching the flu and dying. ¬R >>>> From: >>>> http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-SwineFlu/idUSTRE5685ER20090710 [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > That's correct. [ ... ] So, Tony, aside from collateral damage to the images of your immediate correspondents, did your post have its desired effect? Which was ... ? SignatureFrank ess Does this mean we're all gonna croak? > Does this mean we're all gonna croak? Without exception. I guarantee it. It's merely a question of time. SignatureSkitt (AmE) Peter Duncanson wrote: [...] > As it says here in a report about the fourth person in Britain to catch > the swine flu and die:http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article6630493... [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > � � problems, which may have made them vulnerable to infection or > � � complications. I thought it was politically incorrect to call it "swine flu" because it's insulting to the swine. > Peter Duncanson wrote: > [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > I thought it was politically incorrect to call it "swine flu" because > it's insulting to the swine. Are we protected if we had it in the Carter Era? SignatureAngel http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0622/p06s04-wome.html http://allforgood.org Health care action http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/hcserviceattend/ http://shelby.senate.gov http://sessions.senate.gov http://griffith.house.gov/ Jean Smith filted: >> I thought it was politically incorrect to call it "swine flu" because >> it's insulting to the swine. > >Are we protected if we had it in the Carter Era? Apparently not...you need to have come down with it during the Wilson administration.... (I had the first of the two shots for the 1976 "outbreak"; they had cancelled the program by the time my appointment for the second was scheduled)....r SignatureA pessimist sees the glass as half empty. An optometrist asks whether you see the glass more full like this?...or like this? >>>From: >>>http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-SwineFlu/idUSTRE5685ER20090710 [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > >So, except for dying, the patient was otherwise in good health? Except for the fatal absence of "otherwise", the headline was fine. SignatureJohn >>>>The headline is: "UK records first H1N1 death in healthy patient" >>> [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > Except for the fatal absence of "otherwise", the headline was fine. Never mind - at least the main body of the article had "on" before Friday. Regards Jonathan [...] > Except for the fatal absence of "otherwise", the headline was fine. "And other than that, Mrs. Lincoln..." >From: >http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-SwineFlu/idUSTRE5685ER20090710 > >The headline is: "UK records first H1N1 death in healthy patient" Now THAT disproves the Bible, which says that it is not the healthy who need a physician. SignatureSteve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa Web: http://hayesfam.bravehost.com/stevesig.htm Blog: http://methodius.blogspot.com E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk |
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