Health Check: 'During the doctors' strike in the 1970s, death rates fell'

 "It is a standing joke among cardiologists that death rates fall
 during their conferences because fewer of them are out there 
 attempting to cure moribund patients by doing dangerous surgery.
 The treatment can be worse than the disease.

 That lesson was driven home in Britain during the last doctors'
 strike in the 1970s. Doom mongers predicted that bodies would 
 pile up in the street, but death rates actually fell."

 By Jeremy Laurance
 01 September 2003

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/health/story.jsp?story=439109


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