| JohnDoe 2006-10-16, 2:31 am |
| awthrawthr@yahoo.com wrote:
> JohnDoe wrote:
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> You can't be serious. Children have been getting cancer for a very long
> time. They die from it every day. Do you think 3 might be dying from it
> every day? That's 1,095 dying in a single year. Do you think fewer than
> 3 children die from cancer every day in the US?? Get real!
Oh please, try to read understand your own writing. Your claim is that
these children do not die from cancer, but from the treatment they get.
There aren't any 'thousands of children' dying from cancer *treatment*
period.
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> It's 1.3 per HOUR, ya moron, if you accept the figure provided by the
> doctor speaking on behalf of a drug company at a dinner party for
> doctors...he was shilling for Celebrex...you know that 'safe'
> drug...har har. I have also seen that the estimate at the time was
> 13,500 a year. This was six years ago. I chose the lower number.
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> Have you ever seen a grave yard? The dead people are tucked away in
> grave yards. JAMA reported that an average of 106,000 patients die in
> the hosptal with the cause of death being properly prescribed and dosed
> drugs. Another 44,000 to 94,000 die from drug mistakes, including
> incorrect dosages, wrong medicine, etc. These figures do not include
> people who die at home from their prescription drugs. Between the two
> numbers combined you get about 17 to 23 people an HOUR getting killed
> by prescription drugs in the hospital.
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> Maybe in your world people live forever. What is the latest figure for
> annual cancer deaths? Is it 585,000 a year or something like that? If
> it is, that would be about 67 deaths per hour.
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> Are you noticing that, unlike you, I use real numbers instead of
> whatever you've got mocked up in your head as to what you think is
> real.
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