Do doctors really kill more people than guns?

Question

(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.

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Now think about this:
Guns:

(A) The number of gun owners in the U.S.

is 80,000,000. (Yes, that's 80 million..)

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(B) The number of accidental gun deaths

per year, all age groups,

is 1,500.

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(C) The number of accidental deaths

per gun owner is only .000188!

Statistics courtesy of FBI

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So, statistically, doctors are approximately

9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners.

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Remember, "Guns don't kill people, doctors do."

Answer 1

I've seen the statistic you quoted in my Inbox many times. Let's look at some numbers, though.

In 2004 some 98,000 deaths can be directly related to doctor and or hospital mistakes. In that same year 16,137 murders were comitted in the USA. Of these murders 66% were with a gun or 10,650. (US DOJ http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/guns.htm)

The 1500 accidental number is about right as I saw ranges from 1200 to 1670 while searching the web.

Another interesting statistic is that 52% of gun deaths are from suicide.

More interesting is that the so called "Brady Bill" deined gun buys to about 126,000 to 136,000 people per year. You may think WOW! The Brady Bill works! No, not really. This is only 1.5% of the gun sales done legally every year. So it works out that 98.5% of all gun buyers were investigated and didn't have a mental or criminal problem preventing them from buying a gun. Thus 98.5% of the expense needed to run the background check was wasted money.

Answer 2

I believe that. I was nearly killed by my pediatrician when i was 5, because he knowingly gave me a recalled menengitis vaccine made with a live culture.

took me over three years to recover, I had no immune system.

Doctors, in my opinion, are worthless. Since most are just making money, and creating illnesses. Although a good doctor is priceless.

Answer 3

Well, PhD (also called Dr.) were not included in the statistics.

Answer 4

what saves more people docters or guns think of that who takes out the bullet when you are shot the docters do hehe think of that