>>>Total for 2002: 30,242, of which better than 50% are suicides.
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>The total for 1993 according to the CDC was 35,000. That would indicate a precipitous drop in gun deaths.
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>Since you are so concerned about people being killed, it would seem we need to get rid of doctors because, according to Dr. Joseph Mercola (
http://www.mercola.com/2004/jul/7/healthcare_death.htm), they are the most dangerous things we encounter.
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>Year 2000
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>Condition Deaths
>Adverse Drug Reactions 106,000
>Medical error 98,000
>Bedsores 115,000
>Infection 88,000
>Malnutrition 108,800
>Outpatients 199,000
>Unnecessary Procedures 37,136
>Surgery-Related 32,000
>TOTAL 783,936
And you have to PAY for that through the nose. I prefer the British National Health Service - where you can die for free :-)
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>This is not a heartening statistic because I'm have back surgery 1/24 for a fusion of L3,L4 and L5. Oh well!<s>
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.
