From the New York Times:
www.nytimes.com/.../18swimmer.html
A Disabled Swimmer’s Dream, a Mother’s Fight
By ALAN SCHWARZ
Published: June 18, 2008
SAN DIEGO — As Kendall Bailey swims, his praying-mantis limbs flapping him forward, something about the water disguises his many maladies: cerebral palsy, mental retardation, autism and more. Only in a swimming pool do they dissolve and allow his troubled body and mind to be all but normal. He is happy, safe and possibly the fastest disabled breaststroker in the world....
You can't really compare the aggregate (or average for that matter) number of deaths for those since there is no mention of the total number of drivers or the total number of hospital stays. The only valid statement you can make with the sources you provided is that more people died of medical errors than died in traffic accidents. The "risk" of dying from each cause is also a funtion of the number of participants in each activity.
You can't really compare the aggregate (or average for that matter) number of deaths for those since there is no mention of the total number of drivers or the total number of hospital stays. The only valid statement you can make with the sources you provided is that more people died of medical errors than died in traffic accidents. The "risk" of dying from each cause is also a funtion of the number of participants in each activity.
