Patient Safety Recommendations
Creating safe medication prescribing processes and systems is a critical component in reducing the risk of adverse drug events and medication errors. For physicians working in an ambulatory clinical delivery setting and prescribing controlled substances and nonscheduled medications, important aspects of prescribing processes7 include the following:

Conducting a thorough examination of the patient prior to prescribing [...]

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David Cole, the primary appellant, was injured while catching during a father-son game of softball at a Cub Scout outing when a baserunner collided with him at home plate.  As Wagner reached home plate, he collided with Cole, who had moved on top of the plate, thereby placing his body directly in the baseline.  Wagner [...]

US adults drank too much and got behind the wheel about 112 million times in 2010. Though episodes of driving after drinking too much (“drinking and driving”) have gone down by 30% during the past 5 years, it remains a serious problem in the US. Alcohol-impaired drivers* are involved in about 1 in 3 crash [...]

A new study published in the American Journal of Medicine has found that premature babies have a higher risk of death in early adulthood than babies born at full term. The study, conducted by Dr. Casey Crump of Stanford University, used Swedish medical records to track 674,820 births. Of these 4.1%, 27 667 babies, were preterm [...]

CDC finds 60 percent increase in youth athletes treated for TBIs
Greatest numbers of visits caused by bicycling, football, and playground activities
Emergency department visits for sports– and recreation–related traumatic brain injuries, including concussions, among children and adolescents increased by 60 percent during the last decade, according to a report by the Centers for Disease Control and [...]

 
1.     Instructions. A worker who is required to comply with another person’s instructions regarding when, where and how to perform the work is ordinarily an employee.
2.     Training. Training a worker indicates that the company wants the services performed in a particular method or manner, which also indicates control.
3.     Integration. Integration of the worker’s services into [...]

If you are going to drink and drive then you should consider the following. Drunk driving or driving while under the influence of alcohol or a controlled substance is against the law. Tennessee law will not permit a criminal to profit from his criminal act. Insurance companies have a clause in most automobile insurance policies [...]

Below is a great article in Tennessean on surviving a hospital stay and not being one of 500,000 that die anually.
http://www.tennessean.com/article/20111018/LIFE03/310180046/Surviving-hospital-stay?odyssey=mod%7Cnewswell%7Ctext%7CFRONTPAGE%7Cs

10 Ways to prevent medical errors:
1. Expect mistakes and have an advocate with you in the hospital.
2. Check every medicine. Make sure the dose is right.
3. Be assertive. “Being nice can get you killed.”
4. When in doubt, say no. Demand an explanation.
5. Be vigilant during transitions, from one floor to another, or when shifts change.
6. [...]