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This week: Heart Attack: 2: Great Britain
It's the biggest killer in the country. One-third of all the people who die do so from heart disease. In the next twelve months 200,000 people will become the victims of a heart attack. New methods are being used to try to cut the death toll, but the cost of saving life is high. In some hospitals in this country they have found a way - at a price. In one city they send the cardiac equipment to the victim by ambulance in order to cut down the delay that costs lives. It's become the safest place in the world to have a heart attack. The city is Belfast.
But there are men - experts in medical investment - who ask: consider the cost. In the second of two programmes Man Alive looks at the new methods and then, with the men whose job it is to save lives, asks: is it worth it?

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