This seems a little closer to what I remember the statistics to have
been. No wonder some of us avoid doctors, hospitals and the like. {;-)
On 6/23/2011 16:40, Will Brink wrote:
Those who live in glass houses and all that... The Journal of The
American Medical
Association (2000:284:94) by Barbara Starfield, MD, MPH, found that in
the U.S. there are:
· 12,000 deaths/year from unnecessary surgery
· 7,000 deaths/year from medication errors in hospitals
· 20,000 deaths/year from other errors in hospitals
· 80,000 deaths/year from nosocomial infections in hospitals
· 106,000 deaths/year from adverse effects of medications
This totals 225,000 deaths per year from iatrogenic causes, placing
iatrogeny as the third leading cause of death in the U.S., second only
to heart disease and cancer. The scary part is that this does not
include disabilities and disorders; just deaths in hospitalized
patients.
But guns, that's the problem!
On 6/23/11 5:44 PM, "Jamie Fraser-Paige" <[email protected]> wrote:
I don't have the figures at hand and am not inclined to dig them
out, but as I recall, the number of deaths in the population as a
whole and of children below the age of 18 from medical malpractice
dwarfed the numbers for firearms deaths of all kinds. So, until
they clean up their house, why should we freely give up our
Constitutional rights to make them feel better? Or give them up at
all? I'm not inclined to nor to sit silently by while they lie
about what;s happening. My answer to any physician who is not a
person I know from the shooting sports who asks me gun questions
is a simple: it doesn't apply to me.
Jamie
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