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Originally Posted by omega48038
(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 Service
(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 .000188
Statistics courtesy of the FBI
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This doesn't necessarily conclude anything.
Two things.
1.) Doctors perform many procedures over the course of the year. (Think five to twenty patients seen in a day, 5 days a week, over the course of a year--that's a lot of patients treated.)
2.) Those that are treated by doctors may already be at risk of death.