The state-controlled newspapers announced on March 4 that Stalin was gravely ill, creating a sensation because no such health bulletin had ever been made before.
Our failure to provide a critical, basic level of outpatient psychiatric care to the mentally ill creates a volatile cycle in which uninsured or underinsured patients avail themselves of treatment only when they are in crisis.
We should be deeply ashamed of ourselves for neglecting the severely ill, creating a system that imprisons them, renders them homeless, and allows them to die so young.
We hypothesize that the modest amount of research on VTE in the critically ill creates some uncertainty about best practice.
Ask parents who have lost their child to the insidiousness of the ills created by drugs.
But it is early days, and some academics are already beginning to float proposals to address the perceived ills created by these activist shareholders.
We have to produce less CO2 and there are plenty of other ills created by flying, like noise pollution and the bulldozing of homes for a new Heathrow runway.
Sure, we can create social enterprises that patch up the ills created by our current systems, but that comes with the silent resignation that all we can do it make life a little bit better as we slip into the unknown abyss of an unsustainable world.
As much as I've campaigned against the social and financial ills created by the buy-to-let brigade, their best argument has always been "but what else can I do for a pension?" In pensions, perhaps the only answer is beggar-thy-neighbour.
The program should be seen as a step towards growing the Finnish economy rather than a solution to all of the ills created by a globalized society.
But since these justifications cannot be tested by short-term pilot programs, such as the current Finnish one that involve a relatively small number of people, the program should rather be seen as a step towards growing the Finnish economy rather than a solution to all of the ills created by a globalized society.
