A heart attack? But I was taking lots of fruit with my Bacardis and vodkas. I had even got down to 10 Bennies a daySomewhere over the Indian Ocean at 30000 feet a couple of weeks ago,I had an encounter with the Glasgow Effect and nearly added another number to my city’s grim mortality index. The Glasgow Effect is the curious phenomenon that sends the city’s dwellers to their grave earlier than their brothers and sisters in those other major UK cities with large, working-class communities.
Not that I was aware of the physiological drama that had begun to unfold around my heart on Etihad flight No 88888 from Abu Dhabi to Perth, or the moment leg of three in a 23-hour trip to visit my daughter in Melbourne.
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Source: theguardian.com