Medical professionals are the gatekeepers for most treatments. With the exception of over-the-counter medication for minor injuries and maladies, any significant medical care typically must come from a doctor’s recommendation. Therefore, those with serious health issues need a physician to diagnose them accurately and quickly. Sadly, doctors working in emergency rooms and urgent care facilities...
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Over 100,000 people underwent superfluous and potentially harmful medical procedures between March and December 2020. Coronary stents, a heart surgical procedure, ranked high on the list of unnecessary procedures. To operate or not to operate? Extensive research shows that this type of heart surgery offers little to no clinical benefit and can harm patients. Still, doctors...
For certain medical issues, surgery is truly either the best option or the only viable way of treating the underlying cause of someone’s symptoms. However, there are also many patients every year who undergo surgical interventions that are not truly medically necessary. In some cases, they may undergo procedures that are risky or have lower...
There is a reason Indiana is referred to as the crossroads of America. The state is within a day’s drive of most parts of the U.S. and the neighboring country, Canada, making it one of the busiest states for commercial freight traffic. The high volume of commercial truck traffic passing through Indiana has made it...
The arrival of a newborn should be a time of celebration and happiness – but for many American families, childbirth is a prelude to tragedy. According to a recent article in Fortune, the United States has the highest maternal mortality rate among all developed nations. Indeed, even as the birth rate took a sharp nosedive...
Car accidents happen every day. Some are minor fender benders and others are head-on collisions. No matter how serious a car accident appears to be at a glance, crash victims may suffer head injuries as a result of the traumatic impact they’ve experienced. These are some of the more common head injuries that result from...
The behavior of individual motorists in traffic and the actions taken by commercial drivers directly influence the possibility of a collision occurring. However, the actions taken by commercial transportation companies also influence the risk that the general public must grapple with. The sad truth is that sometimes, the companies that own and maintain semi-trucks would...
There are many reasons that commercial vehicles collide with passenger vehicles. Sometimes, a commercial driver misjudges how much space they have to complete a turn at a tight intersection. Other times, drivers on the interstate get far too close to a semi-truck’s trailer, which leads to an incident when a trucker attempts to merge or...