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July 4, 2012
https://jshare.johnshopkins.edu/gkim9/public_html/PronovostTestimonyApr162008.doc?uniq=-cbj3dn
That means, despite being outnumbered about 20 to 1 by gun owners in the US, you lot manage to kill twice as many people.
He happens to be correct. You health care professionals are far deadlier than gun owners:
And it's not the NRA saying that- it's one of your own:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Pronovost
Peter J. Pronovost[3] is an intensive care specialist physician at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland.[4] He is a Professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the Departments of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, and Surgery, Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and is Medical Director for the Center for Innovation in Quality Patient Care.
He introduced an intensive care checklist protocol that during an 18-month period saved 1500 lives and $100 million in the State of Michigan.[5] According to Atul Gawande in The New Yorker, Pronovost's "work has already saved more lives than that of any laboratory scientist in the past decade".[6]
In 2008 Time named Pronovost one of the 100 most influential people in the world;[7] that same year, Pronovost was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship, otherwise known as a "genius grant".[1]
Pronovost's book Safe patients, smart hospitals: how one doctor's checklist can help us change health care from the inside out was released in February 2010.[8]
He introduced an intensive care checklist protocol that during an 18-month period saved 1500 lives and $100 million in the State of Michigan.[5] According to Atul Gawande in The New Yorker, Pronovost's "work has already saved more lives than that of any laboratory scientist in the past decade".[6]
In 2008 Time named Pronovost one of the 100 most influential people in the world;[7] that same year, Pronovost was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship, otherwise known as a "genius grant".[1]
Pronovost's book Safe patients, smart hospitals: how one doctor's checklist can help us change health care from the inside out was released in February 2010.[8]
https://jshare.johnshopkins.edu/gkim9/public_html/PronovostTestimonyApr162008.doc?uniq=-cbj3dn
...Yet this same American medical system, leaves surgical instruments in patients, overdoses children with blood thinner medications, operates on the wrong side of the body, gives patients appropriate therapies only 50% of the time, and kills nearly a hundred thousand people per year from preventable errors. Perhaps most disturbing, a recent Commonwealth Fund Report ranked the United States healthcare system dead last among other industrialized nations in terms of quality, access, efficiency, equity, and outcomes...
That means, despite being outnumbered about 20 to 1 by gun owners in the US, you lot manage to kill twice as many people.
July 1, 2012
My word, TPTB in Chicago just can't seem to stop giving money to the NRA. The comments are rather amusing, as a few people are rather incensed that GSL took the City of Chicago at
its word- I guess "those people" weren't supposed to take part...
Group turns tables on Chicago gun turn-in, uses money for gun camp
http://www.suntimes.com/news/crime/13484760-418/group-turns-tables-on-chicago-gun-turn-in-uses-money-for-gun-camp.htmlGroup turns tables on Chicago gun turn-in, uses money for gun camp
BY FRANK MAIN
Staff Reporter
fmain@suntimes.com
Last Modified: Jul 1, 2012 11:04AM
A Downstate pro-gun group says it turned payouts from Chicagos firearm buyback program last weekend into a fund-raiser for a youth summer camp a National Rifle Association shooting camp, that is.
The city collected 5,500 guns last Saturday in the annual buyback. The city gave out $100 MasterCard gift cards for each gun and $10 cards for BB guns and replicas.
Sixty of the guns and several BB guns were turned in by the Champaign-based Guns Save Life. In return, the group received $6,240 in gift cards, said John Boch, president of the group...
Most of the money will go toward buying ammunition for an NRA youth camp in Bloomington. The rest will pay for four bolt-action rifles that will be given away to campers.
BY FRANK MAIN
Staff Reporter
fmain@suntimes.com
Last Modified: Jul 1, 2012 11:04AM
A Downstate pro-gun group says it turned payouts from Chicagos firearm buyback program last weekend into a fund-raiser for a youth summer camp a National Rifle Association shooting camp, that is.
The city collected 5,500 guns last Saturday in the annual buyback. The city gave out $100 MasterCard gift cards for each gun and $10 cards for BB guns and replicas.
Sixty of the guns and several BB guns were turned in by the Champaign-based Guns Save Life. In return, the group received $6,240 in gift cards, said John Boch, president of the group...
Most of the money will go toward buying ammunition for an NRA youth camp in Bloomington. The rest will pay for four bolt-action rifles that will be given away to campers.
My word, TPTB in Chicago just can't seem to stop giving money to the NRA. The comments are rather amusing, as a few people are rather incensed that GSL took the City of Chicago at
its word- I guess "those people" weren't supposed to take part...
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