US Stats

[dammit]

Doctors:
(A) The number of doctors in the US 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 US 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, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous

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FACT:

NOT EVERYONE HAS A GUN, BUT ALMOST EVERYONE HAS AT LEAST ONE DOCTOR.

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, I have withheld statistics on
lawyers for fear the shock would cause people to panic and seek medical
attention. :eek:

[mattpg1]

Could you supply links to those government report pages, please? I think this is the kind of thing I want to have fast access to in the future.

Thanks

[dammit]

Cant do that buddy... I nicked it from another site... but I am sure our stats are worse....(Harold Shipman) apart from the gun thing that is.. and ... do you really wanna know???? :dizzy: :rotflmao:

[Harrie]

Oh yeah, Shipman! I think I saw a show about him! Wow, he was something else, eh? How many people did he do away with again?!!

We seem to have had quite a few female and male nurses pulling that particular number.

"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."

LOL! :rotflmao:

[Snurfen]

The Shipman Show - that must've been as much fun as Jay Leno's monologue. :rotflmao:

[Ned Seagoon]

Here in Australia we have an inquiry going on the next town about a surgeon who has been dubbed "Doctor Death"

It appears his ego exceeded his ability. He has moved to the US, so watch out over there. See details here (http://bulletin.ninemsn.com.au/bulletin/site/articleIDs/A0F0FDA8F49691E4CA257015002231CF). BF

[mattpg1]

Couldn't find the origional sources for the stuff mentioned in post 1 but I found this from http://www.starktruth.com/comment.asp?articleid=2387

Medical Errors - A Leading Cause of Death

The JOURNAL of the AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION (JAMA) Vol 284, No 4, July 26th 2000 article written by Dr Barbara Starfield, MD, MPH, of the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, shows that medical errors may be the third leading cause of death in the United States.

The report apparently shows there are 2,000 deaths/year from unnecessary surgery; 7000 deaths/year from medication errors in hospitals; 20,000 deaths/year from other errors in hospitals; 80,000 deaths/year from infections in hospitals; 106,000 deaths/year from non-error, adverse effects of medications - these total up to 225,000 deaths per year in the US from iatrogenic causes which ranks these deaths as the # 3 killer. Iatrogenic is a term used when a patient dies as a direct result of treatments by a physician, whether it is from misdiagnosis of the ailment or from adverse drug reactions used to treat the illness. (drug reactions are the most common cause).

[Snurfen]

Wow, top stuff.
This shows that BASE jumping, hang-gliding and bungee-jumping are lower on the mortality list than visiting hospitals. No wonder my mother-n-law won't go there :dizzy: (Saying that, she hasn't BASE jumped since we hid her rig and jumpsuit).