Even people who have been blessed with perfect vision their entire lives often start having difficulty seeing clearly enough as they get older. As one ophthalmologist says, "We start to lose function after age 30 and it gets worse with age." One place where many...
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How you can help prevent prescription drug errors
Medication errors can occur at just about any point in a person's health care – from a doctor entering the wrong information in the system to a nurse grabbing the incorrect bottle in a hospital to a pharmacist giving a prescription to the wrong customer. Those are...
How often does poorly coordinated care result in medical errors?
It's not uncommon for older patients or ones suffering from chronic medical conditions to require the support of a team of physicians to achieve the best outcomes in their cases. Research on the topic of coordinated care reveals that the quality of a patients' care...
When and where are truck accidents most apt to occur?
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) keeps track of how many large trucks have crashes every year in this country. The federal agency's data shows that there are approximately 475,000 of them tractor-trailer accidents annually. At least 140,000 of those crashes resulted...
Is drugged driving as common as drunk driving?
When you hear people talk about the driving dangers, they'll often mention distracted, drunk and fatigued driving. People don't often speak about the risks of operating a vehicle while under the influence of drugs. It's a big problem, however. The National Institutes...
How Louisiana laws apply to medical malpractice cases
While the majority of patients admitted to hospitals receive competent treatment and make full recoveries, unfortunately, this is not the case for everyone. Some patients suffer from unnecessary pain and suffering due to the way they are treated at the hospital, and...
New technology could protect teen drivers from crashes
When a teenager earns their driver’s license, it is a moment of joy for the teenager and anxiety for the parent. Every mother or father worries about their teen child, especially when that child is behind the wheel of a two-ton automobile. To protect young drivers,...
How do surgical complications differ from malpractice?
A study published in February 2017 in the Journal of the Korean Association on Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons captured how patients shouldn't think of every surgical complication that arises as medical malpractice. The authors reviewed more than 1,500 Turkish oral...
How do insurers assign liability for a crash?
Drivers seldom accept responsibility if they cause car crashes. They are often hesitant to do this because they don't want to receive a ticket for a traffic violation or accept financial responsibility for another driver's injuries and car damage, including the...
What factors affect a trucker’s braking speed?
One of perhaps the biggest mistakes that passenger car operators make is assuming that truckers can stop just as fast as they can. There are many factors, including speed, grades and weight, that make this impossible. While there's nothing much that a tractor-trailer...
