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Originally Posted by MelZ
Please quote accurate numbers, the actual number of firearm deaths last year was just over 11,000 and that included shooting while in the commission of a crime. Gun deaths rank much lower than by motor vehicle and medical malpractice.
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Yes, let's quote accurate numbers. The medical error deaths are skewed by a factor of 20 or 30. Do you realize if a patient in a hospital is scheduled to get a Tylenol at 9 AM, the nurse has to administer it between 8:30 and 9:30 or it is considered an "error"? If that patient has terminal cancer and dies during that admission, it is then counted as a death from medical error. The medication "error" rate in the best hospitals is 0.19%. Remember, statistics don't lie, people (usually with an agenda) lie with statistics. If you think this is bad, get medical care in any one of the 28 countries the WHO "ranks" as "better" in health care than the US. Maybe you can join royalty, world leaders and billionaires and flock to "Luxembourg" for health care. Or pull a Hugo Chavez and go to Cuba---how did that work out for him anyway?