It's a legitimate question, but again, it's only useful if you're going to make the same comparison with handguns: how many more people would have died without

It's a legitimate question, but again, it's only useful if you're going to make the same comparison with handguns: how many more people would have died without medical attention? Are we comparing the lethality of the injury? The incidence of occurrence? The effectiveness of medical care? These are meaningful and important questions. The numbers alone, without a meaningful comparison with what they mean in their relative context only clouds the picture.