Let me know the next time a gun delivers a baby or takes out an sppendix. Yes it is funny.
good un -
There are lies...There are damn lies...Then there are statistics...And now there are polls.
Consider that there are roughly 300 Million people in the United States. On average, each person goes to see a doctor twice a year. Some more than others but averaging out for the entire population, about twice a year. That makes 600 Million patient visits per year. Let's see 120,000 deaths due to physician error per year divide by 600 Million patient visits = 0.0002 There are 700,000 doctors in the U.S....crunching numbers....= THE REAL TRUTH!! There is a such growing distrust by the public for physicians in this country that is unfathomable to me as a physician. Medicine is after all still an art, not an exact science. That's why it's call a "practice" because we do not dare to be so arrogant as to say that we have all the answers. Defensive/CYA medicine is carried out by every physician in this country because of fear of lititgation. I have been in medicine for 20 years and will admit that over the years, I've ordered more and more unnecessary tests in forms of xrays, blood work, CT's, MRI's, ultrasounds, stress tests, cardiac caths...because of our litigous atmosphere. It is so easy, a wield of a pen, a verbal order to prevent months/years of aggravation inherent with all law suits.
Ban medicine. If just one child is saved, it will be worth it!
When doctors aree outlawed, only outlaws will have doctors.
It's more real than you think, given the trials lawyers attack on doctors with their incessant malpractice litigation advertising.
1,500 sounds pretty low, there are a lot of idiots out there.
That was the first thing I ever posted in FR back in 2001 and it was old when I posted it. It is good to see it again, though.