As long as we're on Doctors...

[Mr N8]

Originally posted by: Mallow
I feel tainted after reading this thread. I am soon to start medical school and hope I am the person Sketcher depends on to save his life some day and then he can mouth these statistics to me and then I will still help him to the best of my ability b/c it is my job to help people no matter how insanely stupid they are

Well said. The potato thing works, too, though.

 

[GasX]

Originally posted by: BatmanNate

How am I a homophobe?

You've graced this thread with that creative little picture calling me a 'fag0t', shortly before making freudian references to me being 'behind.' Come on and tell us how you really feel.

I have graced this thread with a quick dismissal of obviously asinine and false statistics.
I have also supplied actual numbers to back my position up despite it not being necessary to anyone with a brain.
I have also provided some humor at the expense of idiots who believe that if something is on the internet - it must be true.

You have provided a challenge that was met first with humor and second with facts.
You have also graced this thread with an unending supply of inability to recognize a lost cause.

If you want to know how I really feel,
ask Lumbergh

 

[BatmanNate]

Originally posted by: Mwilding

Originally posted by: BatmanNate

How am I a homophobe?

You've graced this thread with that creative little picture calling me a 'fag0t', shortly before making freudian references to me being 'behind.' Come on and tell us how you really feel.

I have graced this thread with a quick dismissal of obviously asinine and false statistics.
I have also supplied actual numbers to back my position up despite it not being necessary to anyone with a brain.
I have also provided some humor at the expense of idiots who believe that if something is on the internet - it must be true.

You have provided a challenge that was met first with humor and second with facts.
You have also graced this thread with an unending supply of inability to recognize a lost cause.

If you want to know how I really feel,
ask Lumbergh

Obviously I don't agree with the the gun control/malpractice assertion either, however if I even felt it neccesary to debate such a thing instead of taking in it good humor, I would post some proof instead of throwing 'fvcktard' and 'fag0t' around to make myself look like an imbecil. That was why I responded to the above poster, not because of my opinions on the topic. Instead of throwing around insults at people you don't agree with, you might gain more ground by providing some substance. With the decline of educated members joining this forum, you're right, it probably is a lost cause.

 

[rockyct]

Actually, you got it wrong. These are the real numbers:

Certain physicians and others with a socialist political bent are trying to say that gun control is a "health issue." They say we need gun control because of all the accidental gun-related deaths in America.

On the front page of the November 30th, 1999, issue of the USA Today newspaper, a story ran entitled "Medical mistakes 8th top killer." In the article, the medical community estimated that 75,000 deaths occur each year as the result of mistakes made by physicians. This is probably a conservative estimate, but let's run the numbers and see the results.

Number of physicians in the U.S. .............. 700,000
Accidental deaths caused by physicians per year . 75,000
Accidental deaths per physician ................ 0.11
(or 1 out of every 10 physicians)

Number of gun owners in the U.S. ......... 80,000,000
Accidental gun deaths per year (all ages) ...... 1,500
Accidental deaths per gun owner ........... 0.00002
(or 1 out of every 50,000 gun owners)

Result = doctors are approximately 5,000 times
more dangerous than gun owners!

 

[Sketcher]

Originally posted by: Shantanu
Fvck you. You're numbers are total bullsh|t. Doctors most certainly do not cause 120,000 accidental deaths a year.

Dude, lighten up. not my numbers, and I stated a disclaimer that it was posted for HUMOR.

Perhaps you should see a doctor about that .

 

[Karsten]

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Originally posted by: Shantanu
Fvck you. You're numbers are total bullsh|t. Doctors most certainly do not cause 120,000 accidental deaths a year.
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Dude, lighten up. not my numbers, and I stated a disclaimer that it was posted for HUMOR.

Perhaps you should see a doctor about that .

lol... good one!

 

[Sketcher]

Originally posted by: ergeorge
and 83.4% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
Nobody has to disprove Sketcher's stats. They are worthless, as he doesn't reference them to any authority to begin with.

You guys are friggin' incredible... a bit of humor... I even posted that it's for humor's sake...

 

[rickn]

Originally posted by: Sketcher
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DISCLAIMER-- Nope, haven't looked up the numbers. Nope, don't intend to. Just a bit of humor.
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New Alarming Threat:

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 & Human Services)

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 than
gun 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 for fear that the shock could cause people to
seek medical attention.


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DISCLAIMER-- Nope, haven't looked up the numbers. Nope, don't intend to. Just a bit of humor.
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what you call accidental, I call fate. We as humans have extended our lives beyond what we were intended to live (there were exceptions), we cure cancers and disease that normally should kill us-- lifes way of population control. Doctors make mistakes, but they don't intentionally kill people

 

[Sketcher]

Originally posted by: MogulMonster
Damn, mwilding beat me to it. CDC.gov has most of these statistics, and if only 100,000 death a year are from accidents / unexpected injury, I'm sure doctors aren't the ones to blame for all of them. Next time you get an email that raves about how much our helathcare sucks, and that doctors are evil, just delete it. Don't bring it here, and try to pawn it off as fact. :disgust:

Can't see the forest for the trees can we? Eh, not pawning anything here but a bit of brevity Mogul.

Real F-ing ignorant of those of you to even think there was an intention of factual representation there. Show's some real intelligence. You'd think that one of the pre-requisites for having the ability to post in a forum is that you can read. (ohhhhhh crap - now I suppose there are all sorts of opinions being furiously typed about posting statistics for the sake of humor....)

 

[rockyct]

Actually, here is some real data.

Final 2000 data

Ten Leading Causes of Death in the U.S.:

Heart Disease: 710,760

Cancer: 553,091

Stroke: 167661

Chronic Lower Respiratory Disease: 122,009

Accidents: 97,900

Diabetes: 69,301

Pneumonia/Influenza: 65,313

Alzheimer's Disease: 49,558

Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis: 37,251

Septicemia: 31,224

Also, thise says it is really around 5,000-15,000 deaths due to error. Plus, it is from a source in the medical community, instead of Rush and the gun clubs.

 

[Sketcher]

Originally posted by: rockyct
Actually, here is some real data.

Also, thise says it is really around 5,000-15,000 deaths due to error. Plus, it is from a source in the medical community, instead of Rush and the gun clubs.

hmmmmm, interesting....

 

[blackhawk]

So, If doctors were armed, less patients would die?


Statistics, damn statistics!

 

[Sketcher]

Originally posted by: blackhawk
So, If doctors were armed, less patients would die?

Depends on if they're Canadian or not

 

[Electric Amish]

I wish I was "on" a nice, young female doctor about now...

amish

 

[T2T III]

Originally posted by: Jugernot
The real question is how many intentional shooting are there per year?

Or, how many suicides are committed with guns?