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(* Benton County News Tribune on 17th of November, 1999).
Statistically, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners.
"Remember, Not everyone has a gun, but everyone has at least one "Doctor."
Please alert your friends to this alarming threat. We must ban doctors before this gets out of hand.
Remember guns don't kill people, doctors do!

It's sad because it's true...

From very personal and family experience, I can assure you there is a lot of bad doctoring out there. I wish it was a joke but it's not.

Bill

Wonder about those figures...no doubt you quoted them correctly, but wonder about their collection. Is it a Dr. casued death when they operate and you die even if your death was a certainty without the operation? In at least two hospitals locally, if the ER Dr. picks up your chart and talks to you to ask your name, and you die that second, he's the one tagged.

Is it like "gun accidents"...where the people who manage to drop their rifle on their foot get include as a firearm accident...depends on who counts and what reason they have for counting?

BUT...will agree...Dr.'s are dangerous...you should hear them thwn one of THEM has to submit to another Dr.'s care.

Well you could always try the VA hospitals (if you qualify) I think their doctors are required to kill at least two people before thay are hired. They've tried on me several times, I'm just to stubborn to go yet.

Several years ago, I was having bouts of fever and chills. This would incapacitate me for two or three days. I went to a local Doc who was Chief of Staff at the County Hospital. He diagnosed my illness as possible malaria, treated me with penecillin, sent me home. These bouts continued over the years, becoming more frequent. Turned out I was plagued with gallstones. I could have died from mis-diagnosis. Doctors don't have to treat you to kill you.

Not sure how accurate these figures are, but I did just copy and paste into a thread, I found it interesting though and thought y'all might as well.

-9r