I heard someone on shortwave recently mention "Death by Medicine" and
thought it might be a play on a report I read some time back entitled
"Death by Doctoring". I decided to do a Google search for "Death by
Medicine" and got hundreds of hits - over 700.

I went to the first one on the list and read a brief report linked to
the bottom of that first page. Part of that report follows:

"Number of physicians in the US = 700,000
Accidental deaths caused by physicians per year = 120,000
Accidental deaths per physician = 0.171

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

Therefore, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun
owners. "

Oh, the URL: http://www.mercola.com/2000/may/14/doctor_accidents.htm

Al