Subject: Think about this

[Garry]

a. The number of physicians in the US is 700,000.
b. Accidental deaths caused by Physicians per year is 120,000.
c. Accidental deaths per physician is 0.171. (US Dept. of Health HumanServices)

Then think about this:
a. The number of gun owners in the US is 80,000,000.
b. The number of accidental gun deaths per year (all age groups) is 1,500.
c. The number of accidental deaths per gun owner is .0000188.Statistically, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous thangun owners.

FACT: NOT EVERYONE HAS A GUN, BUT ALMOST EVERYONE HAS AT LEAST ONE DOCTOR.
Please alert your friends to this alarming threat. We must ban doctors before this gets out of hand. As a public health measure I have withheld the statistics on lawyers forfear that the shock could cause people to seek medical attention.

[fasttalkingmom]

Good one !

[cobweb]

Great post! LOL

[Wheel1975]

Aside from the "joke" quality of this, the potential for real analysis is amazing.

My Grandfather, a doctor, always said, "Do what ever you have to to stay out of hospitals (as a patient or otherwise!)"

[capri]

With handguns banned un the uk i wonder what that does to the stats.

The latest thing like that i saw was, 30% of people who are admitted to hospital actually get somthing else while they are there. So even if the doc doesnt "do you in" just being there might.