Any cut in potentially lifesaving research is unfortunate, of course, but a well-designed system should not be sent into severe crisis by a 5% drop in revenue.
While many abroad have considered a US government shutdown unfortunate and potentially damaging to the global economy, it is a development the world has survived before.
This potentially could result in unfortunate and costly over- or under-treatment, and conflicts between health care professionals and the patient's family and friends.
The GPC does not believe that more non-NHS provision is required in the NHS and CCGs will be in the unfortunate position of potentially enabling this to happen.
"It's very unfortunate and could potentially be counterproductive by preventing health care workers from Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea from sharing their experiences and findings at one of the most important tropical disease meetings globally," adds Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas.
This unfortunate scenario has potentially catastrophic implications for these patients because proper follow-up clinical management of Q fever is necessary to prevent possible endocarditis (4 ), unnecessary surgery, and premature death.
This is a drastic oversimplification considering that experimental evidence supports the existence of at least two functional promoters for > 50% of all genes [ 25, 26], and, furthermore, it has the unfortunate consequence that potentially important transcriptional variants may be ignored.
Still, "I do think it's unfortunate that my appointment potentially makes me the highest-ranking African-American," he added.
In an open letter to Gehry published in Slate, the novelist Jonathan Lethem wrote, "I've been struggling to understand how someone of your sensibilities can have drifted into such an unfortunate alliance, with such potentially disastrous results".
"Whist Harry Kane's return to form may be a cause for celebration for Spurs and, potentially, England fans, it could have unfortunate and far-reaching environmental and economic consequences," Dr Doug Parr, Greenpeace UK's Chief Scientist, told The Independent.
