It can't be April already?

[caulkhead]

According to a report picked up by the Independent, 'Midsomer murders' is obscuring important public health messages by its concentration on 'bizarre murder methods'

http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/midsomers-murders-are-affecting-public-health-messages-9132121.html

I invite the floor to suggest what public health messages *are* in fact effectively conveyed by Midsomer Murders? Or the rest of the detective canon, in fact?

ETA

Nope. Still not convinced it isn't April.
http://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/feb/17/south-bank-university-fake-pub-alcohol-research-drinking

(I wonder what they'd make of a Batmoot?)

Comments

[legionseagle]

Any illnesses with varying symptoms which include hair loss are probably thallium poisoning (the Pale Horse: bonus point because a nurse who'd read it used this information to save a child's life).

There are certain anti-depressants which cause cerebral haemorrhage in conjunction with cheese. Don't be a rich woman with depression married to a doctor (Rumpole, though there are cognates - the conjunction of drug A plus foodstuff B in Christie, including Styles)

Don't tell your neer-do-well relative that you're disinheriting them until you've done it. Then make it very clear you have.

[tree_and_leaf]

Also, when your solicitor tries to tell you how changes to inheritance law may affect you, pay attention.