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Originally posted by Scooter123:
... how about some articles about how the leading source of MRSA and other anti biotic resistant infections are Hospitals.

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Originally posted by darthfuster:
Where was the AMA on the ACA?

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Originally posted by Kevbo:
No doubt squarely in favor, as was the AAP


My wife is no longer a member of the AAP because of their liberal hypocritical bullshit

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Originally posted by darthfuster:
Where was the AMA on the ACA?

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Originally posted by mbinky:
A doctor asks a bullshit question, he gets a bullshit answer.

Doc: (staring intently at his clipboard) "So, do we have any firearms in the home?"

Me: "I'm wearing a thong".

Doc: "Excuse me?"

Me: "I think I put it on backwards. It's a little tight."

Doc: "Your thong?"

Me: "Well ok, but run your hands under warm water first. I hate cold hands."

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Originally posted by ensigmatic:

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Originally posted by Sigmund:
The www site has a link to the complete article, which is probably complete crap.

"Probably?" Guaranteed, with crap like this:

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Originally posted by Sigmund:
... in keeping with the tradition of JAMA and other research journals, Bauchner and his co-authors preempted such claims not with heated rhetoric but with with footnotes to studies that support their argument.

One of the earliest studies they cited showed that, in Washington’s King County, 54% of all 743 firearms-related deaths that occurred between 1978 and 1983 took place in the home where the gun had been kept.

That would almost certainly be Dr. Arthur Kellerman's thoroughly discredited "masterpiece." Thoroughly discredited, yet JAMA doctors keep trotting it out repeatedly.

Guess they figure a lie repeated often enough will eventually be believed. Though it seems, in this case, it won't. It seems Americans aren't as stupid as Kellerman and his colleagues believe them to be.

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Originally posted by Sigmund:
What’s more, among the fatalities that involved a firearm kept in the home, accidental deaths were 30% more common than self-protection homicides.

Note the not-so-subtle "reasoning." Accidental deaths vs. self-defence homicides. So self-defence uses that did not result in the death of the attacker didn't count?

Right.

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Originally posted by Sigmund:
Suicides involving firearms were 37 times more common than self-protection homicides.

An oft-regurgitated and just as frequently discredited statistic. Every study ever done has found no correspondence between suicides and firearms ownership.

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Originally posted by Sigmund:
A more recent study published this year in JAMA Internal Medicine found that Florida’s adoption of a “stand your ground” law, which broadened homeowners’ right to use lethal force in self-defense, was linked to an “abrupt and sustained increase” in homicides by firearm.

Homicides involving the death of perpetrators of crimes, right?

Cry me a river.

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Originally posted by Sigmund:
“What would happen if on one day more than 50 people died and over 10 times that many were harmed by an infectious disease in the United States?” they asked.

If they were people who provoked it in response to committing criminal acts I would think it a good thing.

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Originally posted by Sigmund:
The journal editors called on their fellow doctors to ask their patients about their ownership of guns, ...

If my doctor asks me about that I'll give him one opportunity to reconsider, after which failing to do so he will become my ex-doctor.

Immediately.

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Originally posted by ChuckFinley:
The AMA represents somewhere south of 20% of physicians.

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Originally posted by Kevbo:
No doubt squarely in favor, as was the AAP


My wife is no longer a member of the AAP because of their liberal hypocritical bullshit

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Originally posted by darthfuster:
Where was the AMA on the ACA?