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I can't quite understand why more people aren't interested in WHY the effect might be neutral - the best bet is probably that drugs are vastly more harmful in their long term effects than we now know (or could know.) But maybe Doctors also tend to inadvertently "approve" bad life style choices by the rude things they don't say. Or maybe we take better care of ourselves when we know others won't.

Of course, there could also be a rural effect - the farther you are from a health clinic, the farther you are from shift work or a bar.

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Let's call the mystery factor "more money for food"

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