June 27, 2013
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"Some treatments are common to both: each starts life with an injection of vitamin K and immunizations, and both take antibiotics and painkillers at various times. Other treatments are more specific. The man had asthma and hay fever when young, but enjoyed food health until his fifties. At seventy, he stops smoking after a bad chest infection. He is treated for high blood pressure for the last ten years of his life. He dies of a stroke at the age of seventy-six, having taken as many pills in the last ten years of his life as in the first sixty-six..."
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