Guns and Doctors

[Ricochet]

Note the following alarming facts:


(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 Human Services.



Guns:
(A) The number of gun owners in the U.S. is 80,000,000. Yes, that is 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 0.0000188.



Statistically, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners.



Remember, "Guns don't kill people, doctors do."



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. Out of concern for the public at large, I have withheld the statistics on lawyers for fear the shock would cause people to panic and seek medical attention.

[Toksin]

hehehehe

[LXDSMXL]

(B) The number of "accidental" gun deaths per year, all age groups, is 1,500.

Now add the number deaths caused by guns period.
Then you can add the number of deaths "casued" by doctors period. (I don't think theres any doctors killing on purpose) So I would say it stays at 120,000

Update: 30,000 dead every year. (Including accidental) by guns every year in the U.S
So 30,000 deaths by guns "Overall", that would give these figures:

30,000 deaths(intentional and accidental) to 80 mil guns Thats 0.000375 deaths to every gun
So physicians still have a greater death rate

WOW SCARY

[YogsVR4]

Should seeing a doctor have a five day waiting period?

[-Josh-]

No it shouldn't, i think it's time to add to the gun statistics Yogs..

[clawhammer]

Scary doctors...

[KustmAce]

Originally Posted by YogsVR4

Should seeing a doctor have a five day waiting period?

I would love to have a doctor where I only had to wait 5 days to get an appointment.

[Oz]

[dirtydx]

haha

[ghostguy6]

No wonder I only go to the doctors when its absolutley neccesary

[SeXy_AnGeL]

I want you to question whether your MD is really that bad? You yourself can tell if something "isnt right" personally, I have seen more than my fair share of Doctors and still do on a regular basis and I don't see a problem with them. While yes, doctors make mistakes, fatal ones and ones that should be avoided, i'm not siding with them, there are so many good doctors that while this statistic is true, people should just be aware of what's going on.

[2of9]

hey..what would you say when doctors say "dont worry, i've had practice." yeah, cuz i over heard a doctor say that when i was gettin my teeth cleaned. Does that mean...they practiced...like their first victim...errr...patient..?

[SeXy_AnGeL]

Originally Posted by Silver_GTR34

hey..what would you say when doctors say "dont worry, i've had practice." yeah, cuz i over heard a doctor say that when i was gettin my teeth cleaned. Does that mean...they practiced...like their first victim...errr...patient..?

No, it means that they have done whatever they were doing before on someone else. And in most cases when a doctor does something especially something challenging for the first time a more experienced doctor is there assisting them.

[Dog_soldier13]

I knew those doctors had it out for me

[slammedscion]

my grandma died not to long ago from a dumb doctor telling her she was having anxiety attacks (sp) and she was having light heart attacks she ended up dieing on her 44th aniversity he wont have a job much longer thats all i gotta say