Finally, some useful statistics:

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Finally, some useful statistics:
Doctors:

   (A) The number of doctors in the U.S. is 700,000 

   (B) Accidental deaths caused by physicians per year are 120,000 

   (C) Accidental deaths per physician is 17.14% 

   Statistics courtesy of the U.S.Dept of Health & Human Services

Guns:

   (A) The number of gun owners in the U.S. is 80,000,000 (yes 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 0.001875% 

   Statistics courtesy of the FBI 


   So 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 statistics on lawyers for fear the shock would cause people to panic and seek medical attention.

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Perhaps you could also include the number on non-accidental deaths from guns in your statistics?

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Perhaps you could realize that you cannot express a ratio in terms of “per” and still use percentages?

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It’s meant to be tongue in cheek :). I guess people are in a serious mood tonight!

Actually, I’m not particularly pro-gun. I don’t believe that they are successfully used in very many self-protection situations and as you said, a lot more accidents occur with guns than deliberate shootings. I would actually very much like to see that statistic.

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Oops, I didn’t read your post properly or mine for that matter LOL :smack: I would also like to see the statistic on non-accident related deaths by guns!

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Fair enough. But so much pro-gun propaganda emanates from the US that I assumed this was more of it.

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My neice’s then 5 year old son was killed by another 5 year old in an accidental shooting. Tongue in cheek? More like foot in mouth.

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biddee, was there a point to this?

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What about the car-deer accident ratio?

I think deer ought to be outlawed.

Squirrells, too.

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What are useful statistics doing in the Mundane Pointless Stuff bin?

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:rolleyes: There are three kinds of lies: Lies, damned lies and statistics! I seriously doubt my physican is responsible for 17.14 percent of his patients deaths in a year. :smack:

Benjamin Disreali, Former PM of UK

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How are you defining caused by? I bet a lot of the people accidentally killed by physicians certainly would have died if they hadn’t seen their doctor.

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Exactly!

According to those statistics each physician is responsible for 17.14%
of that total 120,000 accidental deaths. That’s what 120000/700000 gives you(0.1714)!

BTW I’m highly skeptical of that 120000 figure.

But still according to the said statistics each physician has on average 5.83
accidental deaths per year. 700000/1200000

So 5.83 * 0.1714 =1
(you realize this is with rounding actual number have way
too many decimal places yo make them worth typing, but you get the idea)

Also we are not given then number of patients per Doctor or the number of
natural deaths in the US or per Doctor!

According to the U.S. Census Bureau the
population of the US is 297,070, 793 (this is done with a population clock
so the number will be higher each time you visit the site).

297070793/700000=424.38 Eeach doctor has on average 424 patients.

Using these figures we get each doctor’s accidental death rate is 1.3% or 5.83/424!

But sill this is all skewed. Not everyone goes to the doctor. Many
people go years without seeing one. And like I said before IMHO I find
that 120,000 accidental deaths a highly suspicious figure.

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And how many patients brought their illness on themselves, in which no amount of medicine or therapy would have even helped.

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While the correlation of accidental shootings compared to deaths caused by physicians may be off-base (and it is), I don’t see how the OP is in anyway exploiting your neice’s son. As accidental shootings do occur.

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Err sorry! Ignore this. I did this late at night and the above is wrong.

If each Dr had 5.83 accidental death the number would be a lot higher than
120000. :smack:

But the figure 120000/700000 = 0.1714

0.1714 is the number of average acidental deaths per Dr.
0.1714 * 700000 = 120000.
Witch means each Dr is responcible for 0.1714%, also, of the total accidental deaths. Or am I wrong!

and like other posters. How is accidental deaths defined!