Submitted by Ken Gillman (not verified) on Tue, 2007-03-06 16:26.

I am not at all sure that this statement 'Access to health information is effectively useless when you have no access to health care' is valid. One of the Commonist bits of advice that I give to patients is that despite all the expensive modern medicines for depression, obesity, hypertension etc the most effective strategies they have for maintaining their own health relate to: exercise, lifestyle changes and diet. The best estimates we have of what to do in relation to these things come from science and do not require doctors medicines and hospitals. Not much has changed since the improvement of the water supply to prevent cholera, that didn't require doctors or hospitals either.

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