Mortality Statistics

[Keykutter]

Doctors v Gun Owners
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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 and Human Services.
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Now think about this:
Guns

(A) The number of gun owners in the U.S. is 80,000,000.
(Yes, that's 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
.0000188

Statistics courtesy of FBI
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So, statistically, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners.
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Remember, 'Guns don't kill people, doctors do.'
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FACT: NOT EVERYONE HAS A GUN,
BUT Almost everyone has at least one doctor.This means you are over 9,000 times more likely to be killed by a doctor as by a gun owner!!!
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Please alert your friends to this
alarming threat.

We must ban doctors before this gets completely out of hand!!!!!
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Out of concern for the public at large, we withheld the statistics on Lawyers
for fear the shock would cause
people to panic and seek medical attention!
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*KK

[Bighouse Doc]

If you had read the actual paper, the author points out limitations in the way the data was collected which leads to an inflated number of deaths due to medical error. There is also limitations to what actually is used to determine what is "Error." To a researcher, these things are called "Confounds" and are things that limit the accuracy of the data, and hence the conclusion.

Few people outside the medical field can read medical literature critically. This leads to many people deliberately using what is actually limited data to willfully mislead others. If you take the way the above argument was stated, it would seem you are safer getting no medical care at all.

-Doc

[Keykutter]

Hey dude, I got this off the Internet. It cannot be disputed! ;)

KK

[lilidaddy]

I think you have to question the MD. Just as anyone would question someone holding a gun.

[Bighouse Doc]

If the number was even remotely true, I should have killed over 3000 people by now.

I know for an absolute fact the number is ZERO!

-Doc

[Keykutter]

If the number was even remotely true, I should have killed over 3000 people by now.

I know for an absolute fact the number is ZERO!

-Doc

Me thinks thou doth protest tooooooooooo much!

KK

[Bighouse Doc]

Me thinks thou doth protest tooooooooooo much!

KK

Probably so.

I hate it when inaccurate stupidity get spread.

-Doc

[tuts40]

If you allowed the above number of accidental physician caused deaths, whether direct or indirect, to be say 1/10 the disputed number and realized that 80 million guns do not mean 80 million gun owners one could rationalize there still may be a healthy competition there...

If the originally provided accidental deaths per doc stood as .171/phys, where would you get "3000" for yourself? I know, it was off the cuff so relax. The OP wasn't meant to dent anyone's physician sized ego. Being that you are not at work while here and we are not the med center staff walking on egg shells saying "yes doctor" no matter what, and that the OP was not, believe it or not, revolving around anyone here in particular you can be just one of us today. Let go and enjoy the freedom that being merely human can bring!