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Re: Euthanasia in Canada
« Reply #25 on: December 06, 2022, 09:42:54 AM »
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Re: Euthanasia in Canada
« Reply #26 on: December 06, 2022, 11:27:51 AM »
I have heard it mentioned before that medical malpractice killed a whole lot more people every year than guns.
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Re: Euthanasia in Canada
« Reply #27 on: December 06, 2022, 01:42:47 PM »
I have heard it mentioned before that medical malpractice killed a whole lot more people every year than guns.
Way more.  250,000 is the number I've seen thrown around from a Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine study.
https://www.bmj.com/content/353/bmj.i2139/rr-54

There are some valid arguments that could be made against that number.  Pretty much the same exact ones that people used to minimize the number of deaths attributable to COVID, interestingly.  An alternate reality version of Bogie keeps repeating: "Did they die with medical malpractice, or because of it?  And why are all the people dying from medical malpractice old and sick already?"

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Re: Euthanasia in Canada
« Reply #28 on: December 06, 2022, 02:15:52 PM »
I have heard it mentioned before that medical malpractice killed a whole lot more people every year than guns.

Just saw a headline a few days ago, don't remember where and I didn't click on it, claiming 40k people killed by guns in the us every year. Don't ask me where they got that number but if I had guess the sun don't shine there.
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Re: Euthanasia in Canada
« Reply #29 on: December 06, 2022, 02:25:17 PM »
40k deaths from GSWs is pretty close.  But the large majority of those are suicides.

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Re: Euthanasia in Canada
« Reply #30 on: December 06, 2022, 05:07:16 PM »
40k deaths from GSWs is pretty close.  But the large majority of those are suicides.
That is what I have seen as well. 
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