Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Guns or Doctors?

Doctors vs. Gun Owners (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.


Now think about this: Guns (A) The number of gun owners in the U.S. is 80,000,000.
(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 .000188. Statistics courtesy of FBI Statistically, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners.


Remember, 'Guns don't kill people, doctors do.
Source: one of those internet chain letters

I am reading a fascinating book, Complications, by Dr Atul Gawande. It does delve into the issue of mistakes and malpractice in medicine. A good read.


FACT: NOT EVERYONE HAS A GUN, BUT Almost everyone has at least one doctor. This means you are over 900 times more likely to be killed by a doctor as a gun owner!
Please alert your friends to this alarming threat. We must ban doctors before this gets completely out of hand!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I am a tea party activist and dont know what to make of California guns and or Pot

Speaking of dope I am glad I dont have to live in Oakland after our "High" court voted 5-4 Monday along familiar ideological lines
to overrule laws intended to reduce guns

Then Senator Byrd goes and dies the last remaining Senator who was in the KKK

Whats an aging White Cracker to do?

Anonymous said...

The answer
Doctor: for Drug Therapy
Gun :to blow his brains out

http://chattahbox.com/us/2010/06/24/dem-parasites-hypocrite-farm-subsidy-taker-baby-crib-scammer/