Subject: Fw: Doctors more dangerous than guns?
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 14:59:16 -0400


>Found at www.sightings.com
>
>Guns And Doctors -
>Which Is The Most Dangerous?
>From John Schuessler <schuessler-AT-mho.net>
>6-8-00
>
>Don't worry about the gun you have at home, worry about the Doctor you
>go see when you're ill.
>
>The next time you see or hear some American Medical Association or
>governmental Public Health spokesman calling gun ownership a "Health
>Problem," you might want to direct their attention to these statistics.
>
>Number of physicians in the US = 700,000
>
>Accidental deaths caused by physicians per year = 120,000
>
>Accidental deaths per physician = 0.171 - (US Dept. of Health & Human
>Services)
>
>Number of gun owners in the US = 80,000,000
>
>Accidental gun deaths per year (all age groups) = 1,500
>
>Accidental deaths per gun owner = 0.0000188 - (U.S. Bureau of Alcohol,
>Tobacco & Firearms)
>
>Therefore, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than
>gun owners.
>