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Medicine Section: Saginaw News July 16, 1999 page 3A. AP wire service and LA Times
HMO chief: Mistakes kill 400,000
Washington - Denouncing the quality of American health care, the head of Kaiser Permanente said Wednesday that blunders by doctores and other health-care professionals put people unnecessarily at risk for illness and death.
Medical acidents and mistakes kill 400,000 people a year, ranking behind only heart disease and cancer as the leading cause of death, Dr. David Lawrence, Kaiser's chief executive, told the National Press Club. Mistakes alone, he said, kill more people each year than tobacco, alcohol,firearms or automobiles.
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If this figure is correct and based on a reported figure of 35,000 deaths per year being blamed on firearms. My calculation indicates that 11.428% of the deaths are receiving 100% of the attention. Further break down of the firearms deaths would show a much different story since all firearms deaths are grouped together it certainly gives a skewed perspective.
Do not forget that among the biggest proponents of more gun control has been the American Medical Association and the Centers for Disease Control. Not only is justice apparently blind, so are the medical authorities.
While the president calls for more gun control in violation of the 2nd Amendment, he fails to recognize the biggest killing mechanisms where there is no protection. Apparently the Justice Department is too busy pursuing the gun owners to prosecute the real dangers.
Perhaps this this is why the medical history questionaires ask if you own a gun?
I will just throw this on the table for discussion and comment.
HMO chief: Mistakes kill 400,000
Washington - Denouncing the quality of American health care, the head of Kaiser Permanente said Wednesday that blunders by doctores and other health-care professionals put people unnecessarily at risk for illness and death.
Medical acidents and mistakes kill 400,000 people a year, ranking behind only heart disease and cancer as the leading cause of death, Dr. David Lawrence, Kaiser's chief executive, told the National Press Club. Mistakes alone, he said, kill more people each year than tobacco, alcohol,firearms or automobiles.
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If this figure is correct and based on a reported figure of 35,000 deaths per year being blamed on firearms. My calculation indicates that 11.428% of the deaths are receiving 100% of the attention. Further break down of the firearms deaths would show a much different story since all firearms deaths are grouped together it certainly gives a skewed perspective.
Do not forget that among the biggest proponents of more gun control has been the American Medical Association and the Centers for Disease Control. Not only is justice apparently blind, so are the medical authorities.
While the president calls for more gun control in violation of the 2nd Amendment, he fails to recognize the biggest killing mechanisms where there is no protection. Apparently the Justice Department is too busy pursuing the gun owners to prosecute the real dangers.
Perhaps this this is why the medical history questionaires ask if you own a gun?
I will just throw this on the table for discussion and comment.