When a patient goes in for surgery, they may be filled with anxiety. Often, this fear is caused by the knowledge that they have no control over what is about to happen next. Instead, their fate is in the hands of the surgeon, nurses, and anesthesiologist. What happens when their worst nightmare comes true? Generally,…
One of the things that come with aging is the increase in the number of aches and pains we deal with. With all the advanced techniques and devices in medicine, many patients have found solutions to those aches and pains by undergoing ankle, knee, hip, shoulder, and back surgeries. As the number of those procedures…
When we visit a business, retail store, or other public property, we typically assume that the property we are entering is safe and free from hazards, not giving it a second thought that the people who own and/or are in charge of operating the property has failed to keep up with property maintenance. Unfortunately, accidents…
Many car accidents that happen today are caused by an impaired driver – either one who is fatigued or one under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs. Tragically, in the case of drunk and drugged driving crashes, these accidents are always preventable by the drivers who cause them because of their decision to get behind…
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there are more than 3,100 people killed and about 424,000 injured in crashes involving distracted drivers each year. Nine people are killed each day as a result of distracted driving. About one in five of those who die in crashes involving a distracted driver are…