Interesting statistics...

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Originally Posted by hobbes

Yes, but for this to mean anything, we need to know how many accidental gun owners are doctors who are dead.

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Just so, and well-spotted.

Maybe the relevent numbers will appear anon.
:D

Mogadishu-

Take a pill, please?

You ought not knee-jerk your way through life.

Suppose you learned that the risk of being killed in an automobile accident doubled if you drove to work on the highway instead of driving through the city streets?

What if the odds that you would be killed driving to work every day on the highway were one in a million, while the risk of being killed driving to work on the streets were one in two million?

And what if it took you 15 minutes to get to work on the highway and an hour driving through city traffic?

See what I mean?

Don't be so easy to crank, my good man; it's only me.

:whistling

:lol: :D

Tho' I shouldn't laugh, neither at the link nor the flagrant abuse by JP of the PA.

Possessive apostrophe, although the inversion may have saved you.

Terribly inelegant, whichever way you look at it.

A brave man indeed :saluteage:

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Originally Posted by Skizo

Yeah, that would mean that every doctor would have to accidentlly kill a patient like every 5 point something years. No way.

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yea exactly.

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Originally Posted by Skizo

Yeah, that would mean that every doctor would have to accidentlly kill a patient like every 5 point something years. No way.

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It's just an average.

I'm sure many doctors haven't killed anyone.


All it takes is a few rotten apples, killing 1000 patients or so a piece. :blink:

EDit: I dunno' what I'm saying here, but dammit, I'm right.


Also, does accidental deaths include patients with death threatening conditions that could have possibly been saved but wasn't?

If it doesn't, I daresay I got another reason not to visit america, no offense.

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Originally Posted by mogadishu

first of all.. those accidental death at the hands of doctors #'s are total bullshit.

Also, your gun stats only reports only deaths that are considered 'accidental'. You are hiding behind these classifications when we, the richest country in the world, also have the most gun deaths by far than any other country.

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bowling for columbine. :lol:

Thinking about the validity of that doctor killing statistic made me keekle.



One suggestion; please remember that 68% of statistics are made up on the spot.

One tries.

how many lives are saved by doctors though?

but it sux to die while getting a plastic surgery...imagine paying thousands just to look better on your funeral.