After an accident, even if you feel okay, it may be days or hours before you experience any symptoms from an injury. After an accident, when someone asks, “Are you okay?” The best answer is, “I don’t really know. Only a doctor can assess my health.” That’s the truth of the situation. You may be in shock or have a post-traumatic-stress reaction. Immediately following an accident, you really can’t objectively assess your situation.
Physicians, nurses, pharmacists and medical technicians are among the professionals that people trust the most. Most health care providers and pharmacists make every effort to help their patients and customers. But, despite their efforts, every year about 1.5 million people are injured due to medication errors. The tragedy is that nearly half of the medication errors are preventable. Many of these errors are fatal. In fact, medical errors are the third leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer.
Accidents at construction sites are more common than you might think. In fact, in 2016, over 20% of all work-related injuries and deaths occurred at construction sites. Because these sites can be so dangerous, employers have an obligation to follow strict safety measures to prevent injuries.
Many different types of accidents can take place at a construction site. From non-threatening scrapes, bumps and bruises to serious debilitating injuries and even death. While some injuries are unavoidable and nobody’s fault, others occur because of the negligence of an employer, manager or another employer.
At any moment, an accident can change your life forever. You might be injured if you slip on a stair or trip on a cracked sidewalk. You might be injured in a car accident or while you are working. Accidents happen all the time. The injuries that they cause can be costly and life-altering.
Working as a construction worker is one of the most dangerous jobs in the country. This is because construction sites are inherently dangerous places, and even when following strict safety guidelines, there will always be some risk to workers.
Construction workers, the men and women who build America, do so at risk to their own safety. In fact, every year thousands of construction workers are injured while at work (more so then in any other profession), and sometimes even killed.
Because errors made on the operating table can have life-altering consequences for patients, surgeons and health care professionals whose negligence injures or kills a patient can be sued for medical malpractice. If you or a loved one has been injured because of a surgeon’s mistake, consider contacting a medical malpractice attorney in your area.
The scores from the 1-minute test determine how well the baby tolerated childbirth, and the 5-minute score is meant to give insight into how the baby is doing outside of the womb. While the Apgar test is one way of measuring an infant’s health after childbirth, parents should remember when they hear these numbers that the Apgar test is not the only health assessment of a child, nor does it predict the long-term health of a child.
If you are involved in an accident, you have every right to seek compensation for your injuries. But insurance companies will look for reasons to pay you less. If an insurance company finds that you have a pre-existing condition, they may try to reduce any compensation or not pay you at all