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re: food for thought
- Subject: re: food for thought
- From: Jim Huber <jhuber@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 09:12:37 -0800
> From: Thomas Emberson <thomas@xxxxxxx>, on 03/27/2000 22:35:
> EMT's and doctors are among the worst when it comes to people
> > who tell motorcycle horror stories to drive people away from the
> > hobby. Whenever I hear one of these guys yapping, I hand them
> > this:
> >
> > Number of physicians in the U.S. - 700,000
> > Accidental deaths caused/year - 98,000
> > Accidental deaths/per Doctor - 0.14
> >
> > Number of motorcycles in the U.S. - 4,000,000
> > Accidental deaths/year - 2,000
> > Accidental deaths per bike - 0.0005
> >
> > Therefore, doctors are approximately 280 times more
> > dangerous than motorcycles! (NCOM NEWS & NOTES)
Interesting data. In an effort to validate it, I've found the complete 1997
data for deaths in the U.S. (later data isn't finalized yet). I haven't read it
yet, but for anyone else interested, here's the URL:
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvs47_19.pdf
FWIW,
"Jedi Dawg" Jim Huber
Spring, Texas, USA
'00 blue ST
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