Facts we all should know
Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 8:23 pm
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To quote Foghorn Leghorn, "That's a joke, son."Stupid wrote:Are you guys missing the whole forest by looking at one leaf?
Those numbers are far short of the 120,000 deaths (which started out as 100,000 BTW; over the years someone has tacked on an extra 20,000 for good measure even though all the other numbers, like total physicians, remained the same) claimed by the "Doctors vs. Guns" urban legend. Some have speculated that whoever put this email together seven or eight years ago (possibly intended as humorous; you can find it posted at GOP Joke Central: http://www.gopfun.com/misc/gop_joke_central.htm) took the IOM survey, then added the numbers from another surevey regarding the device failures resulting in death from the entire medical device industry (for example, somebody's pacemaker stops working at the wrong time, a blood-sugar device fails to give correct readings, etc.).December 18, 2002, Wednesday, Late Edition - Final
Errors That Kill Medical Patients
Medical errors are killing tens of thousands of Americans each year and harming countless more, so it has been a salutary trend that many medical, academic and business groups have been developing ways to reduce the dangers. But now a survey of practicing physicians has revealed disheartening evidence that the doctors themselves may be the biggest obstacle to effective reform.
Three years ago the Institute of Medicine estimated that 44,000 to 98,000 patients die each year because of medical mistakes -- more than are killed annually by automobile accidents. The numbers seemed so staggering that many medical practitioners thought them inflated. But the survey of physicians, published in The New England Journal of Medicine last week, has offered corroborating evidence that, whatever the number of deaths might be, there are an awful lot of medical mistakes causing an awful lot of damage.
We are always looking for ammunition, and unlike the Brady Bunch we have scruples, and want to ensure any facts we use to make our case are based on reality.Locksmith wrote:For the record... I posted it as a joke and expected it to be taken as such. The numbers could have come from anywhere or nowhere for all I know. I just thought it was funny.
I am still looking for that Doctor that no longer has the need to practice.magicglock wrote:At least doctors can make the excuse that they are "Practicing Medicine". Doesn't mean that they know much or have any level of proficiency. If practice makes perfect, sounds like we all need to go to the doctor so they can get more practice.
Speak for yourself, buddy~! I am willing to stretch the truth~!We are always looking for ammunition, and unlike the Brady Bunch we have scruples, and want to ensure any facts we use to make our case are based on reality.