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Medical error as a cause of excessive deaths

Medical errors can cover a wide variety of situations. The wrong medication dose could be given to a patient, or a nick from a scalpel during surgery could cause internal bleeding or neurological injury. Surprisingly, the majority of errors take place in connection with visits to a physician’s office rather than in the context of hospital stays. However, the number of such errors annually makes this the third leading cause of death in the nation. New York healthcare professionals may need to consider some important issues related to medical errors in order to turn the statistical tide.

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State of New York is Providing Grants to Prevent Workplace Injuries

Prevention of workplace injuries is very important to employers, employees and the public at large. If a worker gets hurt or a worker is killed on the job, the employee and his family suffer tremendous loss. Employers also experience financial harm, in the form of workers’ compensation injury claims and loss of productivity, as well as fines from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration if the fatality or injury was caused by a violation of workplace safety rules. Prevention of workplace injuries should be a top priority for everyone, but workplace injury prevention costs money and it can be complicated. With the goal of saving

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HOBOKEN: Fabiola Bittar de Kroon Killed In Commuter Train Accident When Train Crashed Through New Jersey’s Transit’s Hoboken Terminal

FATAL ACCIDENT REMAINS UNDER INVESTIGATION HOBOKEN, NEW JERSEY (September 29, 2016) A speeding commuter train killed at least one person and injured over 100 after it crashed into a train terminal, according to NBC.com Authorities have been able to identify the woman that was killed in the crash as Fabiola Bittar de Kroon. Fabiola Bittar de Kroon was struck by falling debris after the speeding commuter train crashed into the station. She had previously worked at SAP, an international business software company, in the company’s legal department. The scene of the accident was completely chaotic. The train crashed through a series of barriers and took down an internal wall

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Speed Limiters: Could They Lower the Risk of Truck Accidents?

Truck accidents are more likely to happen when trucks are traveling too fast on the roads, especially because trucks have a lot of momentum and long stopping distances due to their size. Truck accidents which occur at high speeds are also more likely to be serious or even fatal because the higher speed means there are greater collision forces. To try to save lives by preventing truck accidents caused by speeding drivers, the Department of Transportation and Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration are making a joint effort to try to mandate speed limiters be installed in commercial trucks. The costs of the use of speed

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Possibility of mixing up patient identities too high

Workers in New York hospitals might make errors because of confusion about patient identities. When the ECRI Institute analyzed 7,613 wrong-patient incidents voluntarily supplied by 181 health care organizations around the country, patient identification errors took place at all levels, including among physicians, nurses, transporters, lab technicians and pharmacists.

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Drowsy Driving: It Causes Billions in Property Damage

Drowsy driving is having serious consequences nationwide. Lives are being lost, and billions of dollars’ worth of damage are occurring. Drowsy drivers are unsafe drivers because they are impaired in many of the same ways that motorists who are drunk are impaired. An intoxicated motorist has impaired judgment, delayed reactions, and is more likely to doze off. The same characteristics are true of someone who is drowsy. Fatigued motorists need to be held accountable for the damage that they cause by their choice to drive while impaired by being overtired.  Victims of drowsy driving accidents can get help from a New York City personal injury

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Why imaging scans do not always reveal hernias

New York residents might be interested to know that the 2016 Americas Hernia Society shed light on ways for medical professionals to better diagnosis inguinal hernias found in the small and large bowels of patients. CT scans diagnosed only seven percent of occult hernias and 25 percent of palpable inguinal hernias while MRIs found 33 percent of occult hernias and 41 percent of palpable hernias.

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Doctor claims he lied in court to protect partner

New York residents may be interested to learn that roughly 20 years ago, a surgeon from South Dakota lied during a medical malpractice case. The doctor was called to provide testimony that would establish that his colleague was a skilled surgeon. The case in question involved a patient of that colleague who suffered a stroke after undergoing a procedure performed by the defendant in the case.

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Work-Related Crashes: A Look at Drive Safely Work Week

If an employee gets into a car accident on-the-job, the incident can result in significant expenditures for an employer. The employee could end up making a workers’ compensation claim for injuries. If the employee was at fault, it is possible the employer could be liable for any losses the on-duty worker caused to others, as a result of New York agency rules. When an employee is sick or hurt, the employer also experiences a loss in productivity. Because of the big consequences for employers, companies can and should try to find ways to prevent on-the-job accidents. Drive Safely Work Week is one way employers can

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NORTH COLLINS: Three People Were Killed After Two Planes Collided In Mid-Air Plane Accident

FATAL ACCIDENT REMAINS UNDER INVESTIGATION NORTH COLLINS, NEW YORK(September 25, 2016) Three people were killed in a tragic plane crash that happened on an otherwise clear day in North Collins, according to the Buffalo News. Authorities are reporting that a man from Hamburg and a couple from Eden were among the casualties. The two planes collided somewhere between Larkin and Jennings road. It appears that the two aircraft were traveling in a group of six before the time of the crash. Neighbors who lived in the area said that the they heard a loud crash around 9:30 am. It was later revealed that the planes

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