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To the Editor: Wright and Weinstein's article (Aug. 6 issue)¹ on the gains in life expectancy from medical interventions allows physicians to compare the value of different medical interventions in various at-risk populations. We have used similar data to motivate patients to exchange bad health habits for good ones. Much as Friedman found that investors discounted the gain from investments to zero when the gain was more than three years away,² we have found that patients discount the value of good health choices for a gain in life expectancy in the seemingly distant future. When we translated medical interventions, through . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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