Just for LAFs/ Laughs (lighten up)

Everybody needs to read these SHOCKING statistics:

a. The number of physicians in the U.S. is 700,000.
> b. Accidental deaths caused by Physicians per year are 120,000.
> c. Accidental deaths per physician is 0.171.
>
> (Statistics courtesy of U.S. Dept of Health & Human Services)
>
> Now think about this:
>
> Guns: a. The number of gun owners in the U.S. 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 0.000188.
>
> Statistically, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun
> owners.
>
>
> Remember, "Guns don't kill people, doctors do"
>
> 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 completely out of hand!!!!!
>
> (Out of concern for the public at large, I have withheld the statistics on
> lawyers for fear the shock would cause people to panic and seek medical
> attention.)

Pam,

Now that's FUNNY!!! Or is it????? I think doctors should have to wear warning labels.

Richard

Good one, Pam

And that's only the statistics we know about. No wonder they don't want to answer questions. They're only guessing anyway. For that matter, why are we asking?

Elaine

Ha Ha love it........i shall be sending it to all of my friends......we always pass jokes around.

So it is true Doctors are a death threat.

Merry Christmas ......Happy Chanucah and Happy New Year to all you AFibbers out there round the Globe.......and a special thanks to all of you for your contributions that helped us move on knowing there is a light at the end of tunnel and i dont mean the spirit tunnel yet...... got long way before we get there.

Babs

Thanks Pam - only I'm not laughing. This is really sad. And remember, these are only the reported incidents.

Many times drug interactions kill people who are old or frail and the cause of death is never investigated (autopsy); rather just chalked up to the inevitable.

So these deaths aren't included in that 120K stats number - yet doctors do prescribe harmful drugs and if a person has one or more doctor prescribing, frequently no one is checking the interations. I know. It happened to a family member and fortunately, he didn't die... caught in time. But certainly something to think about.

Jackie

Here's another alarming fact. No one ever remains on this earth for more than 120 years. Nobody bothered to tell me that before I was born. It might have given me severe reservations about being born at all. But I wasn't given all the facts and I'm thinking about suing somebody.

120 years would be great so long as I had my wits about me and my health. At least once we have been born we can learn to question what the commercial world wants us to believe so they can continue to make money.

Fran