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Beware!
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Mar 4, 2016 11:02am
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Something to think about!
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.
(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 0.0000188
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 9,000 times more likely to be killed by a doctor as by 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,
We withheld the statistics on
lawyers

for fear the shock would cause
people to panic and seek medical attention!
Re: Beware!
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Reply to: #921412 by Grrly Girl
Mar 4, 2016 11:06am
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Likely very little known statistics.
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Reply to: #921412 by Grrly Girl
Mar 4, 2016 11:06am
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You always make me chuckle!
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Reply to: #921412 by Grrly Girl
Mar 4, 2016 12:20pm
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I wonder what the statistics would be if you included the NON accidental gun deaths?
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Reply to: #921423 by Kasimir
Mar 4, 2016 1:06pm
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Reply to: #921423 by Kasimir
Mar 4, 2016 1:21pm
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I wonder what the statistics would be if you included the NON accidental gun deaths?

This spawned a question for me, what are the gun death rates by police? This is difficult to determine because it is difficult to determine how many police there are in the United States. So, let's use Wikipedia numbers since I didn't find any better numbers in my few minutes of searching. Even these numbers are admitted in the article to not be accurate, but they are the best I have found.

120,000 federal (2008) + 17,985 (2012) = 137,985
288 (2010) killings by police officers
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Category Number Population #/Pop
Accidental deaths per physician 120,000 700,000 0.171
Deaths per police 288 137,985 0.002087183
All injury deaths (US) 2013 192,945 316.5 M 0.000609621
----- Poisoning 48,545 0.000153381
----- Motor vehicle traffic 33,804 0.000106806
----- Firearms 33,636 0.000106275
Firearm deaths per person (US) 2013 (CDC) 33,636 316.5 M 0.000106275
----- Suicide 21,175 0.000066904
----- Homicide 11,208 0.000035412
----- Unintentional discharges 505 0.000001596
----- Legal intervention/war 467 0.000001476
----- Undetermined 281 0.000000888
Accidental deaths per gun owner 1,500 80 M 0.0000188
Fatal unintentional drowning (US) 3,533 301.15 M (2005 - 2009 average) 0.000011732

Once I started this research, I decided to follow it to it's end, no matter how it came out. An interesting thing that came out is that the death rate per person is higher for the unintentional use of water than the unintentional use (discharge) of guns.

And to answer the question that I had too: What is a fatal intentional drowning? I'm assuming that it is a homicide.
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Reply to: #921431 by Oberon_Kenobi
Mar 4, 2016 1:32pm
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I thought that I could keep editing (because of a recent update), but the edit button is gone.

I use statistics from different years in my previous post because that is what is available in the CDC and other statistics that I found.

And this thread has moved from the "Funny Pages". It should probably be in "Off Topic Wildly".
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Reply to: #921412 by Grrly Girl
Mar 4, 2016 6:39pm
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"Sixty percent of all statistics are wrong."

~Albert Einstein
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Reply to: #921427 by Kelsung
Mar 6, 2016 10:27am
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I once told a plant manager that was trying to reprimanded me based on some figures he had that you can make the numbers mean anything you want them to mean.

Case in point......

Everyone who has ever taken a drink of water has died so water must be poison.

Shiloh
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Reply to: #921549 by shiloh
Mar 6, 2016 11:59am
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Everyone who has ever taken a drink of water has died so water must be poison.

Dihydro-monoxide
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Reply to: #921552 by Oberon_Kenobi
Mar 6, 2016 2:14pm
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Funny you mention that.

In grad school, we labeled certain solvent bottles as Dihydrogen Monoxide around lab for a joke. It seems that some safety officers don't know much about chemistry and don't quite understand the joke. On an annual inspection, we were cited for keeping "highly reactive" monoxide compounds out on the lab bench and not properly labeling our acids and bases.

Though to be fair -- how does one properly label Dihydrogen Monoxide -- acid? base? bacid? acidase?

Needless to say, our boss wasn't thrilled about the citations and had several heated discussions with the safety officers about the bogus charges.
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Reply to: #921412 by Grrly Girl
Mar 7, 2016 10:00am
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(B) Accidental deaths caused by Physicians per year are 120,000.
(C) Accidental deaths per physician is 0.171

I thought these numbers looked way high. Then I too looked on line and concluded that they actually could be low! At the very least, they are in the ballpark.

I also notice that when letterboxes are presented with a truly scary statistic, they mark it funny.

Old Blue
denial apparently is a river in Africa