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Trackbacks (1) #1 by Robert Armstrong on July 24th, 2009 with socialistic version of public healthcare comes waiting lists for “non-lifethreatening conditions”.
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Martin Ramin for The Wall Street Journal 'One feature shared by all successful surgeons is the ability to stand confidently beside a trusting, helpless and anesthetized patient, make a deliberate incision on unblemished skin and carry out often complex and sometimes lifethreatening maneuvers inside a body cavity.
Healing Reads: The Year's Five Best Books Laura Landro 2011
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For the baby, there is a risk of premature birth, which can be lifethreatening or lead to respiratory difficulties and other developmental problems.
Problems In Pregnancy Signal Future Health Risks Ron Winslow 2011
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The thing that is depressing you is infinite, whether it's the newsagent running out of Guardians before you got there, or lifethreatening illnesses.
Re: Depression fastfwd 2010
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Other than that, unless the situation were literally lifethreatening, the rule was stay where you are!
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Good ol' Kiwi ingenuity gets things working enough of the time to not pose a serious or lifethreatening problem.
On read rage DC 2008
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I say this as a mom with 8 yrs, 2 kids, 3 surgeries (1 of the major/lifethreatening variety) under her belt.
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But while Richards's extravagant appetites may be lifethreatening, in the short term they seem the very reverse of self-destructive: they're self-perpetuating, self-exalting.
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And of course, if you're a drug dealer, or live near one, or live near where one used to be, or have caught the ire of a narc or informant, then you have lifethreatening problems--see Ryan Frederick in Chesapeake Virginia, one city over from me.
Nothing Unusual Zoe Brain 2008
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Especially with other good birth control options, why are progestin based methods an acceptible risk and BPA a lifethreatening danger?
Hippie swag bottles pose significant health risk | Jewschool 2007
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