Statistically speaking (humor?)

[lrb111]

Caution, Alarming Statistics: via e-mail, so i do not stand for teh credibility

Doctors:

(A) The number of medical doctors in the U.S. is 700,000.
(B) Accidental deaths caused by physicians per year are 120,000.
(C) Accidental deaths per physician is 17.14%.

Statistics courtesy of the U.S.Dept of Health & Human Services

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Guns:

(A) The number of gun owners in the US 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 0.001875%.

Statistics courtesy of the FBI

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So statistically, medical 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 MEDICAL DOCTOR.
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Please alert your friends to this alarming threat. We must ban medical doctors before this gets completely out of hand!!!
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Out of concern for the public at large, I have withheld statistics on lawyers for fear the shock would cause people to panic and seek medical
attention.

[Hickeroar]

I stuck this on my fridge. :-D

[BobCat]

At http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2002pres/safety.html -
in second paragraph it says "...National Academy of Sciences, estimated that as many as 44,000 to 98,000 Americans die in hospitals each year as a result of medical errors." so I think you are right in the ballpark reporting 120k deaths.

Near the end it refers to http://www.fda.gov/cder/drug/MedErrors/ - got to check that out when I get time.

Thanks - got lots to look up to verify this, but if it checks out it is a hoot!

purrrs,
BobCat

[nitrogen]

Seen this before. I forwarded it to my anti-gun mother; I can't wait to hear her response...

[Hickeroar]

Seen this before. I forwarded it to my anti-gun mother; I can't wait to hear her response...

Well, there's one anti-gunner in my workplace and they still blindly believe that guns are vile terrible things after reading it. Bah.

[jbenat]

Some good stuff there!!! The odds must be on my side. I only have one doctor but I have nine guns.

[anygunanywhere]

Going to the hospital is downright dangerous. Mrs. Anygun is a staff RN at a local hospital and has spoken of this very issue.

As a society, our priorities are wrong.

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?secti ... id=4039258

90,000 Americans die from hospital infections each year

(3/30/06) - When he entered the hospital in February 2004, Mark Bennett was a vibrant 88-year-old with little more than a bad cough. Within a few days, his leg had swelled and become discolored. Within four months, he was dead.

It turns out that hospital personnel had passed on at least six different bacterial infections, inducing drug-resistant strains, to Bennett, according to his son, Michael Bennett.

"This was passed to him through negligence, and he died because of it," Bennett said. "He was gentle, yet strong, just a great human being."

Each year, more than 2 million people in the United States acquire an infection during a hospital stay, and an estimated 90,000 people die from them -- more than from AIDS, breast cancer and auto accidents combined.

"If 110 people were dying daily from the bird flu, I think we'd be calling this an epidemic," said Marc Volavaka of the Pennsylvania Health Cost Containment Council.

The danger is growing worse because many hospital-acquired infections can no longer be treated with traditional antibiotics. Experts, however, say these infections are almost always preventable.

"Infections are spread on the hands and gloves of health-care workers, on their labs and uniforms, on stethoscopes and blood pressure cuffs and bedrails," said Betsy McCaughey of the Committee to Reduce Infections.

There is more of the story at the link.

[Thomas]

I came across this gem today (the joke in the first post), but being a good forum member, I did a search for it instead of creating a new thread. There are 8 threads about this same joke in the forum, this is the oldest thread.

[RPBrown]

Have you ever noticed that doctors are always "practicing" ? How long do they have to practice before they get it right?

[i8godzilla]

Did you know that 86.3415% of all statistics are made up on the spot?

[WildBill]

Did you know that 86.3415% of all statistics are made up on the spot?

I have a 95% confidence level that is true.

[sjfcontrol]

Did you know that 86.3415% of all statistics are made up on the spot?

That is incorrect! 94.5% of all statistics are made up on the spot! If you're going to make up statistics, at least get it right!

[JustMe]

Just so you know--I stole that. I have a "friend" commented on her facebook about how she hates guns in public etc etc because anything made my man can fail---I reposted her exact comments but substitued the word car for gun----don't kow what some of the comments were-she took it off!