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Ride Safely: Reducing ATV Injuries
All-terrain vehicles (ATV) typically involve more significant risks than safer vehicles like a car. ATVs are capable of reaching highway speeds, can weigh as much as 500 pounds, and provide little to no protection for a passenger thrown off the vehicle or crushed underneath it. This combination of popularity and extra risk leads to… Read More »
When Surgeons Operate on the Wrong Body Part
When Pamela and Kenny Metheny took their 15-year-old son Cody to the hospital to remove a lesion on his brain, they were undoubtedly extremely worried, as any parent would be. It is almost certain, though, that they could not have imagined what eventually happened. The surgical team operated on the wrong side of their… Read More »
Florida Motorcycle Laws: Wear a Helmet or Face the Consequences
Codie Ray Barlow, a twenty-year-old Floridian, struck a mailbox with his motorcycle on New Year’s Day and was thrown to his death. Mr. Barlow was not wearing a helmet. The helmet could have saved his life. A motorcycle crash can lead to devastating injuries or even death. Lacking the protective chassis of an automobile… Read More »
The Importance of Seeking Treatment for Head Injuries
A new study by the Boston Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy (BCSTE) highlights a link between significant head injury and the development, even years later, of degenerative brain disease. Encephalopathy is a degenerative brain disease that can lead to serious symptoms, including depression, dementia and memory loss. The study analyzed the brain… Read More »
Florida Leads the Country in Boating Accidents
Charlie Jackson and Jason Cobb recently went together on a boating trip on Lake Jessup. Both turned up dead days later. Investigators believe that the two were involved in a boating accident that threw both of them from the boat. Boating accidents appear too often in the pages of Florida newspapers. The Florida Fish… Read More »
The Hospital Gift Nobody Wants: Infection
The last thing you expect to get in a hospital is an additional medical complication in the form of infection. Hospital acquired infections, also known as Nosocomial infections, strike about two million Americans annually, constituting about ten percent of hospital visits. According to estimates from the American Medical Association, 80,000 Americans die each year… Read More »
Out of Control: Use of Restraints in Nursing Homes
Nursing home abuse takes many forms, and can include physical, emotional and financial manifestations. One area where abuse may be hard to detect is in the use of both physical and chemical restraints on nursing home residents. The Boston Globe recently found that in one nursing home it examined in Beverly, Massachusetts, nineteen percent… Read More »
Car Window Dog Bites
Approximately 800,000 people seek medical treatment for dog bites each year in the United States. Only rarely, however, are the circumstances close to what Deborah Reyes experienced. Ms. Reyes was on her way into a convenience store in New York when a dog, in a car parked illegally next to the sidewalk, stuck its… Read More »
Medicare Requirements in Personal Injury Claims
Starting on January 1, 2011, personal injury claims from claimants eligible for Medicare must be reported to Medicare. Medicare is entitled to a 100% recovery of the benefits it paid for the treatment of injuries and it will seek reimbursement of such payments from any settlement or payout on the claim. Failure to comply… Read More »
Nursing Home Abuse: What You Can Do About It
The elderly and the infirm are some of the most vulnerable people in our society because they cannot easily defend themselves. When the elderly are placed in a nursing home, there is a risk that they will be abused. The abuse can take many forms — physical, emotional and financial. Recognizing the signs of… Read More »
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