Statistics For the Anti-Bike Crowd

[cjjtulsa]

Most of us have seen the ugly pictures on the thread that has the anti-motorcycle website. The guy who owns that site might do well to check out these stats:

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/print?id=1785701

"Each year, more than 2 million people in the United States acquire an infection during a hospital stay, and an estimated 90,000 people die from them -- more than from AIDS, breast cancer and auto accidents combined."

Seems like the only thing more dangerous than being injured in a motorcycle crash is having to go to the hospital after it......YIKES!

[tlwisner]

100% of people die. How many live?

[Louis]

50% of marriages end in divorce.

The other 50% end with death.

[inspiron]

Life is a sexually transmitted terminal condition.

Don't take life too seriously, you'll never get out alive.

[Shea]

A majority of people who are in the hospital are elderly and nearly the rest are very ill. These two things make people susceptable to infection. Things like MRSA and VRE are just a part of the hospital battle and will probably never end.

As for what they are talking about in the article, it sounds like they are refering to hospitals that are dumps. A hospital without a full time staff? Sounds to me like a dump. Suprisingly, inner city hospitals tend to be some of the best hospitals. They get the trashiest of people, but because they are exposed to such a diverse and high volume number of patients and illnesses, they end up being learning/research hospitals.

[arkieollie]

You know the difference between true love and herpes?

Herpes is forever....

[jackM50black]

There was a time a few years ago when, I was all stressed out about what people thought of me.... and then it struck me when I heard myself say....

"heck...I'm over 40 years old, when am I going to stop worrying about what the neighbors think?"

and from that point on, I was able to get over stuff a lot better and just live my life....this is the same for motorcycle riding.

[palanon]

Hospitals aren't the problem. Infectious control and staff infection don't harm as many people as the drug companies that supply us all. As long as the focus remains treatment instead of cure, we all suffer, be it long or short. Those who have been there know what I,m sayin'. What was the last disease an actual cure was invented for ? Polio ?

The money's not in the cure.... it's in the come back.

Motorcycle accident victims... are they really even a blip on the health care radar ?

[inspiron]

A friend of mine is an OR nurse. She and her boss, the surgeon, have had a long-standing discussion about sports-accident victims.

My friend rides motorcycles (she usually rides together with her husband on his FJR1300), and her boss rides horses. IIRC, at last count, these two sports were equally represented in the trauma ward - they had an equal number of MC accident victims and riding accident victims.

My girlfriend had her leg broken by a horse, and I've had a toe broken when the horse stepped on my foot. And I've been thrown and landed on my tailbone several times - oooh, you feel that for days!

Until now *looks for some wood to knock on* I've been very lucky with my motorcycle. I've had a couple of small accidents, but nothing serious.

[cjjtulsa]

Originally Posted by Shea

A majority of people who are in the hospital are elderly and nearly the rest are very ill. These two things make people susceptable to infection. Things like MRSA and VRE are just a part of the hospital battle and will probably never end.

As for what they are talking about in the article, it sounds like they are refering to hospitals that are dumps. A hospital without a full time staff? Sounds to me like a dump. Suprisingly, inner city hospitals tend to be some of the best hospitals. They get the trashiest of people, but because they are exposed to such a diverse and high volume number of patients and illnesses, they end up being learning/research hospitals.

My point in posting that is just to show how senseless bashing something is by using statistics; you can die sitting in your easy chair at home.

As for the elderly and "dumpy" hospitals thing, that isn't necessarily true. Last year about this time a friend of mine's dad went into one of the nicest hospitals here in town for knee replacement. A few days later he was dead (in the hospital) for unknown reasons. Some type of infection no doubt, and I've heard that kind of thing is rampant in most hospitals.

TThheeennnn there's the drug thing. I posted on another thread about that, so I don't want to get too into that subject. Suffice it to say the pharma industry is more or less what indirectly trains our doctors to mask the symptoms, not cure the problem. I wouldn't wipe my a** with the American Cancer Society or the American Heart Association either. If you think they want a cure for what is keeping them in a job you're high. I could go on and on with what I've learned about the pharmaceutical industry, but I just won't.