Extract from the book "Dissent in Medicine, Nine Doctors speak Out,
1985, from New Medical Foundation, Contemporary Books, Inc. 180
North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60601, USA. International
standard book number 0-809 2-5265-1

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Whenever doctors strike, throughout the world, the same result
occurs: The mortality rate drops. The first strike was Saskatchewan,
Canada, in the late sixties. The second was in Los Angeles, where,
according to Professor Milton Roemer of UCL School of Public Health,
the mortality rate during that strike dropped 17 percent.  The third
strike was in Columbia, South America, where the mortality rate
dropped by 37 percent. - The fourth, and my favorite, strike was in
Israel when, during an 8 day strike, the mortality rate dropped by
50 percent.  This greatly concerned the morticians, who did a study
of their own.  They discovered the last time the mortality rate
dropped that low was 20 years previous at the time of the last
doctors' strike.

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