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Death by Medicine
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 |
Al Patrick wrote:
"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. " Al That's great: You just proved that surgery is more dangerous than walking down the street. I had no idea! -- Brian Denley http://home.comcast.net/~b.denley/index.html |
Al Patrick wrote:
Accidental deaths per physician = 0.171 Accidental deaths per gun owner = 0.0000188 Therefore, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners. A peversely false analogy, because doctor-caused deliberate killings are very few, while gun-related non-accidental fatalities are extremely numerous, as any big-city resident can tell you. All this is off-topic, but gun-nuts should be screwed down every time they get loose. -- Anti-Spam address: my last name at his dot com Charles Gillen -- Reston, Virginia, USA |
Al Patrick wrote:
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 They'll get his scaplel when they pry it out of my cold, dead glands. mike Scalpels don't kill people, *Doctors* do. |
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m II wrote: Al Patrick wrote: 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 They'll get his scaplel when they pry it out of my cold, dead glands. I'll be sure to ask my doctor is he's armed before asking questions about his diagnosis. -- Telamon Ventura, California |
Interesting, is there a programme on shortwave about this please?
Regards Mike "Charles Gillen" wrote in message ... Al Patrick wrote: Accidental deaths per physician = 0.171 Accidental deaths per gun owner = 0.0000188 Therefore, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners. A peversely false analogy, because doctor-caused deliberate killings are very few, while gun-related non-accidental fatalities are extremely numerous, as any big-city resident can tell you. All this is off-topic, but gun-nuts should be screwed down every time they get loose. -- Anti-Spam address: my last name at his dot com Charles Gillen -- Reston, Virginia, USA |
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"Mike Terry" wrote: Interesting, is there a programme on shortwave about this please? Regards Mike I have listened to a number of programs related to medicine. I didn't know you were a program listener. -- Telamon Ventura, California |
"Mike Terry" wrote in message ... Interesting, is there a programme on shortwave about this please? Regards Mike Yes! In fact, the "Doctors will kill you" topic is hard to avoid on US domestic shortwave radio. There are several almost literate hosts who dedicate their shows to exposing the evils of established medical practice. Most of the antiestablished medicine hosts are kinda boring and unmemorable. However, among them was one of SW radio's greatest conspiranoics, Len Horowitz D.D.S. Dr. Len insisted that hospitals were infiltrated by the Nazi Party wing of the New World Order. These Nazi MDs were murdering people so the Illuminati could steal their victim's property. And let's not forget Dr. Len's opposite number, Tom Valentine, who's been selling right wing antisemitic theories, along with the pills and health nostrums, for over a thousand years. Well, Tom Valentine sounds like he's at least thousand years old. Frank Dresser |
Charles Gillen wrote: A peversely false analogy, because doctor-caused deliberate killings are very few, No one used the word DELIBERATE except you. Does it really matter if it is deliberate or not -- if you're dead? All this is off-topic, If you will recall this is rec.radio.shortwave and I was reporting what I had heard on short wave radio and THEN proceeded to follow it up with a web search, since shortwave radio doesn't have a rewind or instant replay button. ;-) Al |
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