NRA now attacking Doctors

[Grokmaster]

What do you think was one of the reasons for the *Blue Wave* ?


This looks like one of 'em.


312 Days Into 2018 And There Have Been 307 Mass Shootings In The U.S.

Pease cite the NRA MEMBERS involved.

Maybe doctors should SHUT THE $#@! UP, huh?





Study Suggests Medical Errors Now Third Leading Cause of Death in the U.S.



Analyzing medical death rate data over an eight-year period, Johns Hopkins patient safety experts have calculated that more than 250,000 deaths per year are due to medical error in the U.S.
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news...eath_in_the_us

[Captain Obvious]

Doctors are human beings who can't simply look at gunshot victims as 'work'. Working for hours to save some kid, so that he or she can end up being a head on a stick or ultimately lose the battle to survive, has got to get to you, especially when these injuries are not generally even remotely accidental. There are enough accident victims out there to keep ER docs busy without also dealing with on-purpose injuries that have one common denominator.

I don't disagree with that but docs as a whole live on another planet. The whole "god complex" thing, their version of reality isn't near the norm.

But they can and should do what they feel is necessary. There's no moral or ethical wrongdoing with being proactive with things like this but that the NRA kicks back because that's what they're supposed to do shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone.

[Dr. Who]

Out of 35,416,020 hospitalizations. That's an error rate of 0.0070589524175783.

[Captain Obvious]

Out of 35,416,020 hospitalizations. That's an error rate of 0.0070589524175783.

That's IP and ER I'm guessing, add OP to the mix if that figure includes OP and it gets smaller.

Nearly 1% error rate causing death seems high to me, it's probably smaller.

[hanger4]

I don't disagree with that but docs as a whole live on another planet. The whole "god complex" thing, their version of reality isn't near the norm.

^^this^^ My Bro-in-law is a retired Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, he's pretty much 'if I say so, then it is so'.

[Dr. Who]

I don't disagree with that but docs as a whole live on another planet. The whole "god complex" thing, their version of reality isn't near the norm.

But they can and should do what they feel is necessary. There's no moral or ethical wrongdoing with being proactive with things like this but that the NRA kicks back because that's what they're supposed to do shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone.

Not a surprise that the NRA is defending its turf, but if doctors noticed an elevated number of people being killed by some virus, they would demand that it be addressed. How can they simply shrug their shoulders and give gun violence a pass? It's also their turf.

[exotix]

I don't disagree with that but docs as a whole live on another planet.


The whole "god complex" thing, their version of reality isn't near the norm.

But they can and should do what they feel is necessary. There's no moral or ethical wrongdoing with being proactive with things like this but that the NRA kicks back because that's what they're supposed to do shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone.

^^this^^ My Bro-in-law is a retired Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, he's pretty much 'if I say so, then it is so'.

'The Question is, do I have a God Complex'

[Common]

Doctors are human beings who can't simply look at gunshot victims as 'work'. Working for hours to save some kid, so that he or she can end up being a head on a stick or ultimately lose the battle to survive, has got to get to you, especially when these injuries are not generally even remotely accidental. There are enough accident victims out there to keep ER docs busy without also dealing with on-purpose injuries that have one common denominator.

They worry about stabbing victims and those macheted to death and those beaten and braindead from blunt force trauma and OVERDOSES, women raped and strangled and all the myriad of ways people kill and hurt others, add those up and they are 100 fold gun shot victims.

Guns are a liberal thing to aggravate a certain segment of society that they hate rural white america

[Dr. Who]

That's IP and ER I'm guessing, add OP to the mix if that figure includes OP and it gets smaller.

Nearly 1% error rate causing death seems high to me, it's probably smaller.

I'm sure that ER is probably driving the number. Overworked docs - not enough sleep, problems with triage...

[Dr. Who]

They worry about stabbing victims and those macheted to death and those beaten and braindead from blunt force trauma and OVERDOSES, women raped and strangled and all the myriad of ways people kill and hurt others, add those up and they are 100 fold gun shot victims.

Guns are a liberal thing to aggravate a certain segment of society that they hate rural white america

If it were possible to address the other modes of violence, other than the obvious i.e. support for better mental health care, which they already support, I'm sure that they would. However, unlike those other methods of killing, it's pretty hard for one individual with a sharp object to kill or maim large numbers of people at a time.