[WikiEN-l] giving medical advice

Andrew Gray shimgray at gmail.com
Sat Jul 29 14:46:57 UTC 2006


On 28/07/06, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at ctelco.net> wrote:

> > is also completely wrong and incredibly Americentric.
>
> But in the movie Groundhog Day the weatherman saves a life by using
> the Heimlick Manoeuvre, and in the TV ad for the National Bank of
> Scotland, same thing.

Um... the National Bank of Scotland closed its doors ninety yeard
back. I don't think it's doing TV spots...

(I agree on the Amerocentrism. It's not nearly as common a medical
practice in Europe)

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk



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