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As every New Yorker knows, winter driving presents a whole list of challenges that don't occur during the summer. Snow, ice, freezing rain, and other inclement weather can turn an ordinary commute into a skating rink – only without the fun. To help protect you and your loved ones while you're traveling this holiday season, consider the following safe winter driving tips. Give your vehicle a safety once-over. Ha [...]

The New York Fire Department (FDNY) began the Modified Response pilot program in Queens in October of 2010 in an effort to decrease traffic accidents and increase safety for civilians and firefighters and other emergency personnel. According to Westport-News.com, fire truck-related Queens traffic accidents decreased by 32 percent as a result of this program. This favorable news prompted the New York Fire Commission [...]

Because of the risk of wildfires during this unusually dry season, all fireworks displays in St. Augustine, Brevard, Volusia, Marion, and Flagler counties have been cancelled, however around Florida, those who love the Fourth of July’s giant displays in the sky are being urged to celebrate safely by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). Looking at numbers from last year’s celebrations, about 1,900 peop [...]

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I recently had the opportunity to meet with a client who struck her head in a violent car accident. At the emergency room, she was diagnosed with a mild concussion and despite the fact that she continued to exhibit symptoms a week after the accident including but not limited to vomiting, nausea, loss of memory, and anxiety, she could not get an appointment with a proper neurologist for a month. The experienced [...]

Frances Miller of Fayette County, PA has filed a lawsuit against Highlands Hospital, claiming she was paralyzed after a bacterial spine infection was misdiagnosed when she visited the hospital’s ER. The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports that an on-call doctor didn’t discover her infection until more than 24 hours later, which was too late. Tragedies like these are not uncommon. An article in the Journal of the [...]

Drag racing may have been the cause of a head-on crash between a 19-year-old Glenside man and an ambulance at Broad and 66th Streets in Philadelphia on October 9, killing the 19-year-old. According to Philly.com, the fatal Philadelphia car accident also injured his passenger as well as the passengers in the ambulance. Emergency Medical Services (EMS) personnel face many hazards while on the job, one of which is a [...]

According to this article on Maineville.com, a Mayo Regional patient received 10 times the needed epinephrine. The article reported that Timothy Harvey, 51, went to the hospital’s emergency room on June 4. He was suffering from an allergic reaction and died early the next morning from a massive overdose of medication mistakenly administered by hospital staff. The hospital’s CEO said it takes full responsibi [...]

According to this article in the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania was sued in federal court for allegedly refusing to accept Marcus Murray because he lacked health insurance. Murray needed emergency surgery to treat a tear in a major artery. Marcus and his wife, Jean, claim that Penn initially said it would accept Mr. Murray’s transfer from Underwood Memorial Hospital in Glou [...]