Posted on 02/08/2005 10:53:55 PM PST by djf
Doctors:
(A) The number of physicians in the U.S. is 700,000.
(B) Accidental deaths caused by Physicians per year are 120,000.
(C) Accidental deaths per physician is 0.171
(Statistics courtesy of U.S. Dept of Health Human Services.)
Now think about this:
Guns:
(A) The number of gun owners in the U.S. is 80,000,000. Yes, 80 million.
(B) The number of accidental gun deaths per year, all age groups, is 1,500.
(C) The number of accidental deaths per gun owner is .000188
Statistically, doctors are therefore ~ 909 times more lethal than gun owners.
NOT EVERYONE HAS A GUN, BUT ALMOST EVERYONE HAS AT LEAST ONE DOCTOR.
Remember, "Guns don't kill people, doctors do."
That's an old one but still funny.
Got it emailed to me figure it's worth posting.
.... I kill people.
What's the body count up to for legalized abortion... 40 million? Yeah, doctors do kill PEOPLE!
Does murder count as "acidental death"?
I had to be the devil's advocate here.
And a wonderful job you do.
Keep up the good work!
Thank you. :)
I doubt if murder is accidental. (included)
I don't trust doctors at all. My better half had a thyroid condition, so she regularly saw doctors four to six times per year.
Then, at 41, she fell dead from an aneurysm.
They did fix her thyroid problems, though...
freakin quacks!!!
When 'Selena' was shot and killed here in Texas, about 3 months later there were billboards all over town stating "No More Guns" --- Ridiculous --
Some people just don't get it.
Quick, outlaw all the doctors!
Celeb's are always the exception, as proven time and time again.
Yes, you're right about that.
You are repeating a lie. The original lie was "between 44,000 and 98,000" deaths attributable to accidents by medical personnel. The "medical personnel" included NY janitors unplugging life support to run vacuum cleaners. The numbers were completely bogus, and were concocted by Kneepad Academics at the behest of the Clintonistas. The method was the typical Democrat approach to science: create a complex but useless statistical model that "proves" the desired point.
The 2002 statistics on death causes in the US show that there were 17,000 homicides, 31,000 suicides, 16,000 accidental falls and 44,000 motor vehicle related deaths. To claim that physicians are "killing" more than all of these put together is an obscene lie. Congratulations on doing the work of the Clintons in promoting socialized medicine.
Ironically, the guy with the biggest gun collection that I know is a Gynecologist. He owns 32 shotguns and rifles and 24 handguns.
So you're saying the Stain-master controls the Institutes of Medicine, John Hopkins, and the Journal of the American Medical Association?
Where's your source?
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