- Number of physicians in the US - 700,000
- Accidental deaths caused by physicians per year - 120,000
- Accidental deaths per physician - 0.171
- (US Dept. of Health & Human Services)
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- Number of gun owners in the US - 80,000,000
- Number of accidental gun deaths per year (all age groups)
- 1,500
- Accidental deaths per gun owner - 0.0000188
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- Statistically, doctors are approximately 9,000 times
more dangerous than gun owners.
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- FACT: Not everyone has a
gun, but everyone has at least one doctor.
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- Please alert your friends to this alarming threat. We
must ban doctors before this gets out of hand. As a Public Health Measure,
I have withheld the statistics on lawyers for fear that the shock could
cause people to seek medical aid.
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- Comment
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- From Glenn Gray
3-29-3
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- Here are some taken from the CDC's website
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- Annual Firearm Deaths: 28,874 (1999)
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- Age-Adjusted Death Rate: 10.6 deaths per 100,000 population
(1999)
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- Death Rate for Males Ages 15-19: 14.7 deaths per100,000
population (1999)
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- Death Rate for Black Males Ages 15-19: 67.9 deaths per
100,000 population (1999)
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- Firearm Suicide Deaths: 7.6 per 100,000 population (1999)
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- Fire Homicide Deaths: 2.8 per 100,000 population (1999)
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- Source: National Vital Statistics Reports, Vol. 49, No.
8
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- http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/firearms.htm
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- How are the stats for accidental deaths caused by physicians
determined? It seems that these stats (firearm deaths) would be much more
cut and dry and easier to determine. And are these stats strictly based
on deaths caused by physicians or any hospital staff? I doubt that these
comparisons take into account the exposure difference between the two.
It seems obvious that more people have been exposed more regularly to
the healthcare system than to firearms.
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- I'm not complaining about the site or the concept behind
it. In fact, I'm a huge fan and read every day. I've found it to be one
of the only sources for unfiltered news around. However, bland generalizations
such as these and using oversimplified statistics on very complex issues
doesn't lend any credibility to the article.
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- Thanks,
Glenn Gray
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