What a World

[maserati450]

I find this very interesting and amusing:

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HEALTH FACTS TO PONDER:
(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 Services.
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Comments

[sherbert_lemon]

haha, dude guns suck

i think 1500 is too many people to have die for no reason at all

this article is funny, but just for fun lets try something. its kind of interesting to figure out how numbers can play with things

physician error:
lets say a doctor treats a patient for 30 minutes of their day. 8 hours a day is 16 patients a day. lets then say they work 5 days a week x 50 weeks a year = 250 days per year. At about 15 patients a day that's 4000 patients a year (repeats still count as individual patients, because they are distinct treatments, and distinct chances to mess up). In a 30 year career that's 120,000 patients in a lifetime they've seen and (hopefully) helped. your statistic of 1 death per 7 doctors each year means that if all doctors are equally good, that's shared out to 1 death per doctor in 7 years, right? 30 year career, that's 4 deaths.

4 deaths per 120,000 patients = 0.0000333333333 deaths per treatment.

it's the sheer number of people being seen by a small number of doctors in a year that skews this statistic and makes for a high death toll per physician. When you think how very many people are treated per year, the RATE of death is not all that different from guns.

Numbers lieeeee

[joonylicious]

omg i hate you for posting this :P no sleep and i'm trying to follow your creative number bending and it's fucking my brain up, lemme tell you. and i can't stop loooking.

someone save me!

anyway, this is proof that i'm getting dumber. i'm pretty sure in high school, it all would have made sense. woot for college making me dumber.

[maserati450]

Hahaha, I've gotten dumber since High School too, and thats saying something. How have you been?