The day cars are outlawed is the day I will think there is sanity in the world....relative to reducing "accidental" deaths. Go to the CDC website, WISQARS and see the stats.....
http://webappa.cdc.gov/cgi-bin/broke...deathtle=Death
motor vehicles still are the #1 killer at 50.3% of all deaths and firearms are 0.9% and 'cut/pierce' 0.1%. Pick any age group, they are all the same.
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'Revel in action, translate perceptions into instant judgements, and these into actions that are irrevocable, monumentous and dreadful - all this with lightning speed, in conditions of great stress and in an environment of high tension:what is expected of "us" is the impossible, yet we deliver just that.
(adapted from: Sherwin B. Nuland, MD, surgeon and author: The Wisdom of the Body, 1997 )
Education is the anti-ignorance we all need to better treat our patients. ss, 2008.
The blade is so sharp that the incision is perfect. They don't realize they've been cut until they're out of the fight: A Surgeon Warrior. I use a knife to defend life and to save it. ss (aka traumadoc)
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