Hits & Misses – 2009/9/22

Heart attacks: For every minute that goes by without someone attempting CPR, the survival rate decreases 7 to 10%.

The average Japanese visits a doctor about 14.5 times per year — three times as often as the U.S. average. They get twice as many CAT scans per capita as Americans do and three times as many MRI scans. (H.T. to Marginal Revolution.)

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  1. Larry C. says:

    Just what we need. The federal government poking around in all the garage sales.

  2. Bruce says:

    I bet anything some liberal is going to tell us how efficient japanese health care is.

  3. Larry C. says:

    It gives a whole new meaning to overconsumption of health care.

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