Author: Ponzy Lu
Position: Professor of Chemistry
Institution: University of Pennsylvania
E-mail: ponzy@sas.upenn.edu
Submitted Date: February 06, 2008
Published Date: February 7, 2008
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The satement in italics in the last paragraph of this paper should be more realistically stated with the insertion of the word "postpone":

"The aim of health care is not to save money but to save people from preventable suffering and to POSTPONE death..."