This very same email started a flame war on my family's forwarding list... ...let's just say that those statistics vary greatly depending on your source. ------------------ Newbiehad... coming to a bbs near you, October 31st.
I don't have a doctor either. Here's something else for ya... According to a study done a few years ago, if all deaths related to hospital stays (drug overdoses, stress-related heart attacks, etc) were counted as hospital-related deaths (they are currently categorized as "drug overdose" or "drug interaction" or "heart attack", etc), it would rank as the number one killer of Americans. Remind me not to get sick! ------------------ Things do not change; we change. - Henry David Thoreau
I have a doctor, but he is properly licensed, and I keep him locked up where kids can't find him during the day. I only use him for home defense. I'm not much of a hunter so I've never used him for hunting. Anyway, you break into my house, I'll use my doctor to defend my property.
Intruder- "Give me all your money and jewelry!!" Doctor- "Just let me slip on my latex gloves." Intruder- "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh (runs away)" ------------------ Protrolls.com! I wish I could come up with a decent signature, but I can't. You'll just have to live with this one.
I not only have a personal physician (I call him "Dad" most of the time, though), but when I was last in the hospital, I even got flowers and a persoanl visit from the hospital administrator (and an apology letter when they actually had the gall to bill me for my procedure. Stupid me, I paid the bill thinking nothing of it only to later get a refund and that letter of apology). And Mom's a psychologist (actually, she's a librarian now, but she got her PhD in Psychology), so I can get my head shrunk if need be, as well (or is that only Psychiatrists who shrink heads?) ------------------
Ummm...just posted what was sent to me, I can't really verify any of the stats. Nor do I endorse them..either way; just thought it was interesting ------------------
Alarming Statistics... Number of physicians in the US: 700,000. Accidental deaths caused by physicians per year: 120,000. Accidental deaths per physician....0.171 (U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services) 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 Statistically, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners. "FACT: Not everyone has a gun, but everyone has at least one Doctor." Remember: guns don't kill people, doctors do. ------------------
Interesting. Now lets see the corresponding statistics of how many lives Doctors save vs. how many lives guns save. BTW, any reason you provided the source for the first stat, and not the second? ------------------ http://www.swirve.com ... more fun than a barrel full of monkeys and midgets.
Let me be the first in line to demand better doctor control laws! ------------------ The death penalty SUCKS.
