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Some irritants are particularly exasperating because they are so preventable.
Not only because they are so heartbreaking, but because they are so preventable.
A dozen or so preventable deaths shouldn't be coldly dismissed as the cost of doing business, when the cost of actually preventing the deaths is so small.
The horrible plight facing so many people in the United States and Europe is especially infuriating because it is so preventable.
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If you are thinking 'duh' when you read this, I challenge you to read on and ask yourself why it is that so many preventable, or potentially preventable, and costly issues in the world today are being dealt with only as catastrophes after the fact?
Children die in Myanmar of diseases so easily preventable that most people in Thailand have never heard of them.
Many determinants of poor health in old age are entirely lifestyle related and so potentially preventable, with around half of all ill health in old age related to five risk factors – obesity, lack of exercise, smoking, heavy alcohol use and low consumption of fruit and vegetables, accounting for as much as a 14 year difference in life expectancy.
They are worth remarking on, however, because they would be so easily preventable.
Lung ruptures and embolisms kill a handful of people per year not enough to be an international health crisis, but far too many for something so completely preventable.
The contrast between the beautiful views of the city below and so much preventable ugliness on the hikes up to the Observatory was depressing.
A proportion of elderly patients who die while in hospital after treatment for a fracture of the hip do so for preventable reasons.
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