By: J.F.M. Oosthuizen, MD, [2]
In response to Dr DeMarco’s letter in the October issue [“New health promotion idea: Discourage car travel.” BCMJ 2012;54:383 [9]], road cycling is much more dangerous than motoring, as a simple search will demonstrate. Additionally, we don’t all live in Whistler—road conditions, type of traffic, distance of commute, and weather conditions are vastly different in northern BC.
Personally, I have a congenital heart condition, which makes cycling impossible, and large numbers of the older population have respiratory and cardiovascular conditions that exclude them from this activity. Are we all to be mere cannon fodder in Dr DeMarco’s utopian war on progress?
—J.F.M. Oosthuizen, MD
Williams Lake
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[3] https://bcmj.org/node/4508
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