While being tired while working in any profession can be hazardous, when you’re fatigued while working in the medical profession, the stakes are even higher. Physician fatigue can cause serious bodily harm to patients. Residency is the program medical graduates go into to learn and practice...
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Is Maryland Too Lenient With Drunk Drivers?
A recent study conducted by WalletHub.com examined DUI penalties according to each state to discover which had the strictest enforcement. As it turns out, Maryland has the seventh most lenient drunk driving enforcement in the country. One of the main reasons...
Read MoreAre Washington, DC Bicyclists Putting Themselves and Others at Risk?
In 2015, drivers racked up more than 60,000 red light camera violations in the District. However, now police are looking at Washington, D.C. bicyclists, who have triggered red light cameras 1,557 times between January of 2015 and April of 2016. Unfortunately, police have no way to identify bicyclists who run red lights, so many...
Read MoreCould This Technology Dramatically Reduce the Number of Car Crashes?
If you’ve ever been stuck in traffic or see a hazard on the road, you may have at some point wished you could somehow verbally communicate with other drivers to better navigate around each other or avoid collisions. If only there was a system placed inside each and every car that could help drivers...
Read MoreAre Medical Device Manufacturers Mislabeling Patient Deaths?
A patient died after having a damaged cardiac stent implanted. However, the company that makes the stents labeled the incident a “malfunction.” Another patient received a knee injection and developed a fatal septic infection. The company that produced the knee injection called the death an “injury.” In another incident, a patient fell out of...
Read MoreIs WMATA Failing to Train Its Bus drivers?
A Metrobus ended up on top of a brick wall earlier this month after a bus accident. According to a police report, a vehicle struck the “accordion” part of the bus, which caused the bus driver to panic and jump the curb, hit a tree and land on top of the brick wall....
Read MoreIs Virginia’s Goodyear Plant Putting Workers at Risk for Fatal Workplace Accidents?
Earlier this month, an employee at Goodyear’s Danville plant in Virginia died in a workplace accident. According to the medical examiner’s office, the worker died from blunt injuries to the chest along with mechanical asphyxia. While the worker’s death is now under investigation, it has been confirmed that the Danville plant has now...
Read MoreTwo DC Pedestrian Accidents Occurred in Less Than 24 Hours
Two men died in less than 24 hours in separate DC pedestrian accidents this month. On Thursday after 2:00 a.m., a 44-year-old victim was struck while leaving the restaurant he owned in the Shaw neighborhood. A breathalyzer was administered to the driver, but the accident is still under investigation. Sometime after 2:00 a.m....
Read MoreWill Ending D.C. Metro’s Late-Night Service Increase the Number of Drunk Driving Accidents?
Since 2007, Metro has stayed open until 3:00 a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, as well as midnight on Sundays. This helped service workers, late-night business professionals and would-be drunk drivers find a safe ride home in the late hours. However, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority General Manager wants to close Metro at midnight on...
Read MoreThe Five Most Common Medical Mistakes Doctors Admit to Making
Five Most Common Medical Mistakes More often than not, we put doctors on pedestals, but they are just as capable of making mistakes as anyone else. In fact, we wrote a blog on how medical error is actually the third leading cause of death in the U.S. When common medical mistakes are made by...
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