The US Consumer Product Safety commission estimates that each year there are approximately 5,740 snowblower related injuries in the US which require medical attention. Most of the injuries are finger amputations, but now the manufacturers at All Power America may have to add fire hazards to the list. Consumer Product Safety Commission has just issued a…
It is a widely held misconception that the familiar phrase “First, do no harm” comes from the Hippocratic Oath, an oath many physicians take when they enter medical practice. Today there is no single oath that all physicians take upon entering practice. Just like most people believe the above to be true many also believe…
A nasty oil train derailment in Canada killed more than 45 people in 2013, which spurred regulators in the US and Canada to make changes to train safety regulations. But many say the changes are not enough. The Delaware chapter of the Sierra Club has noted in recent weeks that while the railroad and oil…
Brigham and Women’s Hospital (Cannon Design) A jury awarded a $16.7 million verdict in a Boston malpractice suit, the largest this year. Johnette Ellis sued a doctor of Brigham and Women’s Hospital for missing evidence of her mother’s cancer in a chest X-ray. She died in August 2008 at the age of 47 from lung…
A Virginia man who was severely intoxicated hit and killed a woman in College Park, Maryland on July 6. Around 3 a.m., the victim was crossing Baltimore Avenue near the University of Maryland Campus when the 33-year-old male driver struck her with a minivan. The victim died at the accident scene. She was…