His doctor has told him that his immune system has been decimated from years of stress.
But given that November's spending review has stipulated that no budgets, apart from the NHS itself and schools, are protected from Osborne's cuts, which could be as big as 40%, public health budgets could be decimated from April.
The number of Liberal Democrat MPs has been decimated from 56 to eight, with three former cabinet members among the losers.
Some marine species have been decimated from overfishing, and forests with rare plants have been stripped bare.
Over the past 40 years, black rhino populations have been decimated from an estimated 65,000 to that current number of 2,500.
In the car, she tells me she came here, to America, because Mexico has been decimated from a drug war, and now the fodder of that war is here as well, staggering past her doorway.
The proud, centrist Liberals, who once called themselves the "natural governing party of Canada", were decimated, reduced from 77 seats to 34, while Quebec's separatist Bloc Québécois was all but eliminated, collapsing from 47 seats to four.
Medical training played a pivotal role in French colonial activity, as in Madagascar in 1895, when expeditionary forces were decimated by the thousands from malaria.
Data from these channels were decimated by taking the mean of five samples, effectively reducing the data to 16 post-baseline samples per channel.
Many beds were decimated.
