Guest guest Posted January 7, 2000 Report Share Posted January 7, 2000 A recent article in the (Seattle) Washington Post-Intelligencer concerning accidental deaths caused by physicians, from research of Key @ USA Today, triggered a chain of thoughts that resulted in a person cruising the web for some statistics and doing a few calculations: Follow along as we do the math.......... Number of physicians in the US = 700,000 Accidental deaths caused by physicians/year = 120,000. Accidental deaths/physician = 0.171 Number of gun owners in US = 80,000,000 !! Number of accidental gun deaths/year (all age groups) = 1,500 !! Accidental deaths/gun owner =.0000188 Conclusion - Doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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