statistical possibilities...

Got this from a friend. just something to think about...

Guns or Doctors?

Doctors:

1. The number of physicians in the U.S. is 700,000.
   
2. Accidental deaths caused by Physicians per year are 120,000.
   
3. Accidental deaths per physician are 0.171.
   

(Statistics courtesy of U.S. Dept of Health Human Services.)

Now think about this:

Guns:

1. The number of gun owners in the U.S. is 80,000,000. (Yes, that's 80 million.)
   
2. The number of accidental gun deaths per year, all age groups, is 1,500.
   
3. The number of accidental deaths per gun owner is 0.00188.
   

(Statistics courtesy of the FBI.)

So, statistically: Doctors are approximately 9,000 (0.171/0.00188) 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.

Corollary: 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.


or as the joke goes in the movie Philadelphia: What do you call 1,000 lawyers as the bottom of the ocean?

A good start...

should we change that to doctors?

I like my doctor a lot. He'd love this sort of thing. He's a hoot. Just yesterday he told me that I was his role model. I'm not exactly sure what he meant by that, but I was flattered.

Hmmmm, really, what did he mean by that?