My Pharmacology Professor posted these statistics. I thought you guys
would
find them interesting.
Tongue in Cheek~~
Consider these facts:
1. The number of physicians in the US is 700,000
2. Accidental deaths caused by physicians per year is 120,000
3. Accidental deaths per physician is 0.171 (US HHS)
Then consider this:
1. The number of gun owners in the US is 80,000,000
2. The number of accidental gun deaths per year is 1,500
3. The number of accidental deaths per gun owner is 0.000188
Therefore:
Statistically speaking, physicians are approximately 9,000 times more
dangerous than gun owners. Not everyone has a gun but almost everyone
has at
least one physician. Please alert your friends to this alarming threat.
We
must ban physicians before this gets out of hand. As a public health
measure, I have withheld the statistics from lawyers for fear that the
shock
would cause you to see medical attention!