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The most male and female reasons to end up hospital

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Re: The most male and female reasons to end up hospital

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The pregnancy numbers are a policy and not related to accidents. It would be similar to say that children at age 3, 5 and 12 months are much more likely to end up in the hospital than other age groups, since those are the ages when they get vaccinations. As with all statistics, there is some apple to oranges comparisons and some contexts that get lost.

Surely "admissions" does not include scheduled doctor's appointments?

Based on the data it seem it does.

"HES contains records of all admissions, appointments and attendances at NHS-commissioned hospital services in England."

One could limit the data to accidents and illnesses. Outcome of pregnancy would then not qualify unless there were complications.

Re: The most male and female reasons to end up hospital

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post #32

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Aren’t we being a little sensitive? The OP didn’t say all of the reasons for male related injuries were needless, but if you look at the list, it’s dominated by activities that are inherently voluntary and risky.

aren't you being a little naive by calling dangerous activities men have to take to survive "inherently voluntary"? go to a 3° world country or works as an immigrant somewhere rich to check your options. transportation included. it's easy to say one shouldn't use a cheap motorcycle and go for the one way sardine packed 2 hours bus ride across the city to reach work, everyday

This data reflects the UK, not a 3rd world country and my comments are restricted to this dataset.

Included in that same dataset are assaults and sports related injuries, which are additional risky activities.

You might argue assaults aren’t voluntary. My personal experience suggests most assaults are the result of voluntary activity rather than involuntary activity, YMMV.

I’m not being naive. I have lived in a 3rd world country where it wasn’t uncommon to see a family of 5 on a motorcycle.

I would note that you will tend to see, proportionately speaking, more women on motorcycles in those countries for the reasons you suggested.

Re: The most male and female reasons to end up hospital

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Sooo does this mean that pregnant women definitely should not be doing roofing work or riding motorcycles? Would that make them the humans most likely to go to a hospital?

others pointed out the flaw in your interpretation but at the same time, being pregnant while roofing or riding does seem like a bad idea

Re: The most male and female reasons to end up hospital

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They might be trans.

That's also my guess, and specifically: if you're a trans man with a uterus, odds are high that you'd like to get it removed. Therefore hysterectomy, therefore hospital.

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Re: The most male and female reasons to end up hospital

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They might be trans.

That's also my guess, and specifically: if you're a trans man with a uterus, odds are high that you'd like to get it removed. Therefore hysterectomy, therefore hospital.

Who the hell flagged my comment?

Trans people exist and are people too.

Re: The most male and female reasons to end up hospital

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That's also my guess, and specifically: if you're a trans man with a uterus, odds are high that you'd like to get it removed. Therefore hysterectomy, therefore hospital.

Who the hell flagged my comment? Trans people exist and are people too.

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Re: The most male and female reasons to end up hospital

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Who the hell flagged my comment? Trans people exist and are people too.

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In the future, maybe a hundred years from now, when we're able to do whole head or brain transplants on top of monoclonal bodies we grow in a lab - to regain our youth, our health; to trivially be rid of cancer - do you think people will really give a damn about any of that?

We'll have people swapping genders and races and even species (I'm certain someone will pay to have cat ears or a tail). This will happen left and right because there will be no societal stigma anymore. People will embrace the full spectrum of possibility. We won't hate on a superficial basis. (Just for all the others, like pride and jealousy.)

You might even find yourself wanting to become a transgenic "trigender pyrofox from the forest planet". And I wouldn't judge. Who am I to tell you how to live your life? I'm not taking your Bible, guns, privacy, or religion away either. I just want you to ease up on hating others.

One day science fiction will be reality. And when it is, can you possibly harbor this same primitive hate?

Btw, my wife is trans. She's a fashion model. She's 100% passing and men steal glances at her and try to get her number constantly. You have probably met trans people you're attracted to and don't even know it.

If a tree falls in the woods and nobody knew it, did you commit the sin of lusting after "the wrong chromosomes?" Is someone going to damn you to eternal hell for it?

Live and let live. You're being the "far left progressive people" you claim to hate when you try to interfere in the lives of others. They want to take your guns and your god? Well, why are you trying to take people's dignity and tell them how to live? Two way street. It's horseshoe shaped and you have more in common than you think. Blind hatred for a way of life you're unfamiliar with is chief most. You have leftist allies who hate Christianity and other groups. You have so much in common. The only thing is that you're playing for a different team with a different jersey and a different brand of prejudice.

Jesus told you to love. Do it. Don't follow the antichrists teaching messages of hate.

Love is what brings us together and makes us stronger. If you don't have love to give or nice things to say, just keep it to yourself and stop adding negativity to the world.

Re: The most male and female reasons to end up hospital

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> 89.5% Psychological problems [for women]

This is a pretty stunning statistic to me. I suppose if you were to ask me to guess which gender is hospitalized the most frequently for mental health reasons, I'd probably guess women... but I wouldn't expect the distribution to be that extremely skewed.

Is there a simple explanation for this?

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