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(something for fun )



Doctors vs. Gun Owners



Doctors

(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)


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Now think about this:

Guns

(A) The number of gun owners in the U.S. is 80,000,000.

(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)


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So, statistically, doctors are approximately


9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners.


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

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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!!!!!

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

Duper wrote:(B) Accidental deaths caused by Physicians per year are 120,000.

That's misrepresentation.

I was giong to point out the ACCIDENTAL part. It's all in how the info is displayed.

John Murtha died from complications from gall bladder surgery. Seems the complication was from the surgeon \"accidentally\" slicing into Murtha's intestine. Accident or not, dead id dead.

woodchip wrote:John Murtha died from complications from gall bladder surgery. Seems the complication was from the surgeon "accidentally" slicing into Murtha's intestine. Accident or not, dead id dead.

If only he had used a small caliber single shot he could have nailed that pesky gallbladder without ever touching the intestine!
Guns 1 Scalpels 0

Nice!

Last night on the News Hour there was a story about how if doctors/surgeons would only use a checklist before doing an operation, they could cut down accidents/mistakes by 2 thirds…

I’ve been using checklists in my business since the beginning, and assumed that something so essential would already be in use for something so important…but noooo.

Spidey, the problem is, surgery is not something you can create a checklist for. Seconds can cost lives. It's not like you're making a book and have to make sure the pages are in correct order and have all day to make this happen. Having someone's chest open you can't sit there and go through a list.

Huh ? If you can have a checklist for flying, you can surly have one for surgery; things like \"account for all compresses\", \"sterile scapels\", \"count needles\" etc. Just having the sections \"pre-op\" and \"post-op\" would save a lot of lives.

1) Cut off the right leg not the other one.
2) Check to see if #1 means the opposite of left or 'correct'.
3) Do #2 first then #1

While you're performing sugery, would you want your doctor to stop and have someone go through a checklist or would yuo prefer they know it already beforehand. Some suguries can't be stopped and have to be completed withinm a certain time frame.

CDN_Merlin wrote:Spidey, the problem is, surgery is not something you can create a checklist for. Seconds can cost lives. It's not like you're making a book and have to make sure the pages are in correct order and have all day to make this happen. Having someone's chest open you can't sit there and go through a list.

Huuummmm…tell that to the doctor they did the story on.

woodchip wrote:John Murtha died from complications from gall bladder surgery. Seems the complication was from the surgeon "accidentally" slicing into Murtha's intestine. Accident or not, dead id dead.

Some one needs to check the Doctors political affiliation. is he a member of the GOP????

Funny I notice when I had carpal tunnel surgery he put yes on the arm he was cutting on and no on the other before I went in for surgery seems like common sense to mark the body with things like cut here or something and to count the instruments when done.

Hey! my wife had that same surgery done last week! and yes, to minimize \"boo boos\" they triple and quadruple check where the operation is going to be done. Her doctor actually came into prep and wrote his name on her arm where yours says \"yes\".

Her stitches look nicer!