Time to start canceling those newspaper subscriptions

[Neo-Luddite]

The NEJM (along with JAMA and others) just can't stand it when faced with the fact that their opinion isn't wanted or valued on ALL SUBJECTS at ALL TIMES--and EVERYTHING relates SOMEHOW to 'public health' if they say that it does.

It's far from 'bashing' doctors as a group to take such nonsense put forth by institutions to task; there are many doctors involved in the shooting sports and hunting. And there are ones that hate guns, too--and that's fine.

 

[lamazza]

So all you guys bashing doctors in general aren't going to see one when you get really sick, right?

What a crazy thing to ask...we are all going to be dead from accidental discharges of course

 

[DWFan]

Doctors fear a surge of accidental deaths and suicides due to the Heller ruling especially emergency room physicians?
During the last week I have seen three videos of three different people falling over dead in ER waiting rooms after being ignored for hours.
Whoever says doctors are deadlier than firearms are absolutely correct.

 

[La Pistoletta]

During the last week I have seen three videos of three different people falling over dead in ER waiting rooms after being ignored for hours.
Whoever says doctors are deadlier than firearms are absolutely correct.

Maybe they had an accidental discharge...of negligence.

 

[junyo]

The three editors of the prominent medical journal, Dr. Jeffrey Drazen, Stephen Morrissey and Dr. Gregory Curfman, said handguns were far more likely to cause harm than do good.

"In our opinion, there is little reason to expect an optimistic result; research has shown and logic would dictate that fewer restrictions on handguns will result in a substantial increase in injury and death," they wrote in a commentary released in Thursday's issue.

In my opinion their opinion is BS. I challenge one of these doctors to produce a peer reviewed study that proves "fewer restrictions on handguns will result in a substantial increase in injury and death". The CDC, no lover of gun rights, did a study a couple of years ago and they even concluded "The Task Force found insufficient evidence to determine the effectiveness of any of the firearms laws or combinations of laws reviewed on violent outcomes." Newspapers are often lazy, and just paste press releases verbatim into the "news". They can and should be blamed for publishing these stories without challenge, corroboration, research or even a dissenting point of view.

 

[torpid]

Medical experts note it is far easier to carry out a suicide with a gun than it is using any other method.

It is also far easier to defend oneself from life-threatening attack with a gun than it is with a bottle of sleeping pills.

 

[WayneConrad]

If we would pitch only the benefits of guns, without considering the costs, we are rightfully considered to be biased.

When our opponents pitch only the costs, without considering the benefits, they are also considered to be biased.

True science considers both the cost and the benefit of a thing. True science insists upon studies that draw from sources that are themselves scientifically rigorous. The NEJM, although "peer reviewed," has become a mouthpiece for politically motivated hatchet jobs, not science.

 

[jcwit]

Can't blast Dr.'s to much--Had polio when I was a youngster back in the 50's, wasn't given 10 o/o chance to live let alone walk overcame it and served a hitch in the Army. Eight yr's ago came down with cancer was told maybe 30 o/o chance of making it, took cemo and have been in remission for almost 7 yr's. Nope can't bash Dr.'s, however I may not go along with their political ideals.

 

[W.E.G.]

Newspaper? what's that?

 

[La Pistoletta]

W.E.G., have you tried FireFox plus the NoScript and Adblock addons? That combo blocks most popups and flashing banners.