Jimmy Carter Close Encounters Spielberg

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tnal must be compared to the cost of medical care rather than to the cost of doing other kinds of research. Each day a patient spends in a coronary care unit, he says. costs about $1000. And there Briefing are about | million heart attacks each year in the United States. Many of these heart attack victims die before they ev- er reach the hospital, but Chalmers points out that those who die represent a significant economic loss to the country. Critics of the prevention trials contend that the...