Could The Stress Of High Office Be Taking Its Toll?

[sandyRoe]

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/may/25/peter-robinson-northern-ireland-first-minister-heart-admitted-hospital

[Peter Pedant]

well I hope the fella gets well soon

altho perhaps these things should be confidential - I dont think we were ever told Churchill was ill with pneumonia in Casablanca

in these days it is becoming less so

( the health of a lead-from-the-front CEO affects the share price and so is disclosable in the Land of the Free - this accounts for Steve Jobs' liver cancer being splatted across the tabloids )

[greenrook]

Well, I just had a heart attack, and I am unstressed to the point of suspended animation, but there you go. I had an informative chat with the cardiac chap who inserted the stents etc., and his view is that it's down to your luck for the most part.

[Peter Pedant]

yeah but he would wouldnt he ?

he is not gonna say - welll it is down to me and if it is an off day and you die then you sue the a-r-s-e off my estate ?

[greenrook]

Not quite sure we're singing from the same hymn sheet Peter. My condition wasn't his fault, he was a Hospital surgeon. I think he merely wanted to point out that given my fairly healthy lifestyle, the situation shouldn't have occurred, whereas he had occasion from time to time to treat patients whose way of life was dreadful, and whose arteries were in better shape than mine. I'm fine now, by the way, I shan't be taking anyone to court!