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<blockquote data-quote="Commercialfarmer" data-source="post: 1266567" data-attributes="member: 14544"><p>Didn't want to get the joke thread all off on a tangent. But it was interesting to me. I don't think Nesi's statistics are overly inflated. There's much to be considered. But I believe that this comparison demonstrates the irrational mental state and easy sway our population has allowed itself to deteriorate to. </p><p></p><p>TB, I was wondering as well about legitimate statistics, so I went to some published journals. The statistics look pretty spot on.</p><p></p><p>This is an older but often cited article. If you scroll down, the author extrapolated an estimated 180,000 people per year (written in 1994) dying of health care related causes (iatrogenic). </p><p></p><p><a href="http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=384554" target="_blank">http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.asp ... eid=384554</a></p><p></p><p>The one below is from 2004, and involves just one very specific area of practice. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>To make use of this, there are 2500 practitioners with an extrapolated estimate of 165 deaths in otolaryngology practice per year. That is an estimated 0.066 deaths per practitioner/per year. Add more complicated areas of medicine, and you can't help but think that the 0.17 mark isn't that far off. Even conservatively, it is much higher than the statistical likelihood of a gun owner causing death by owning a firearm.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Commercialfarmer, post: 1266567, member: 14544"] Didn't want to get the joke thread all off on a tangent. But it was interesting to me. I don't think Nesi's statistics are overly inflated. There's much to be considered. But I believe that this comparison demonstrates the irrational mental state and easy sway our population has allowed itself to deteriorate to. TB, I was wondering as well about legitimate statistics, so I went to some published journals. The statistics look pretty spot on. This is an older but often cited article. If you scroll down, the author extrapolated an estimated 180,000 people per year (written in 1994) dying of health care related causes (iatrogenic). [url=http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=384554]http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.asp ... eid=384554[/url] The one below is from 2004, and involves just one very specific area of practice. To make use of this, there are 2500 practitioners with an extrapolated estimate of 165 deaths in otolaryngology practice per year. That is an estimated 0.066 deaths per practitioner/per year. Add more complicated areas of medicine, and you can't help but think that the 0.17 mark isn't that far off. Even conservatively, it is much higher than the statistical likelihood of a gun owner causing death by owning a firearm. [/QUOTE]
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