On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Wolfgang Lenerz wrote:
> Lies, damn lies etc.
> How many HEALTHY persons die of
> physician's error
> gun accidents?
Well, actually those stats aren't lies. They were produced by the Houston
Health Science Center of the University of Texas. In fact, the stats were
the best spin possible because not all doctors are licensed so many
doctors are counted that do not practice. The other figure they released
was that for every 45 firings of a gun in the home resulting in injury to
a person, 44 of those firings result in an injury to a resident of the
home, and only one to an intruder.
My wife works there and directly knows the people who collected the
information and collated the statistics as part of a larger mortality
analysis.
Bottom line, you're 9000 times more likely to die in a confrontation with
a doctor than as the recipient of a piece of lead.
No figures are available on doctors who own guns, but I'd avoid them if I
were you ;)
Dave.
PS: anyone interested in a ground up write of a QDOS-like OS for the ARM
or PPC processors? (a bit of on-topic)
