Bath Safety Month takes place every January. The National Drowning Prevention Alliance’s annual outreach effort raises public awareness of the nearly 90 children who perish in the tub every year. Sadly, the primary reason for those deaths is lack of supervision. “Children can drown in only a few inches of […]
Author: Adam Hecht
The mistreatment of the aged is a societal ill that, sadly, is unlikely to be cured soon. The statistics tell the story. By 2025, the global population of seniors (defined as those age 60 and older) will reach 1.2 billion. Thirty years ago, that figure was 542 million. As the […]
Opened on October 1, 1971, Walt Disney World is the most visited vacation resort in the world. Reports estimate that over 52 million people visit Walt Disney World annually. For me, growing up in West Palm Beach, Florida, just about two and half hours south of Orlando, I was one […]
According to the NPDB website, it is an “electronic information repository created by Congress. It contains information on medical malpractice payments and certain adverse actions related to health care practitioners, entities, providers, and suppliers.” Unfortunately, the reports containing this vital information, which are contained within this repository, are confidential and […]
Traffic fatalities are on the rise both nationally and in Florida. Unfortunately, during the first six months of 2015 there have been 18, 630 fatal car crashes nationally. It should be very concerning to all Floridians that the Sunshine State ranks 3rd in total number of fatal crashes and 2nd […]
Approximately two weeks ago I was on a plane traveling back home from New York. The flight was fairly typical. We boarded, we took off, we were given peanuts and we landed. However, what was very unusual about this flight was that for the first time I saw a physician […]
If you seek medical care you definitely should read the patient reviews on Medicare’s Hospital Compare website . In April, Medicare added a feature that allows prospective patient’s to read ratings from patients of hospital stays based on patient’s assessments and compare 3 hospitals to each other at a time. […]
Handing down the old family clunker to the teen driver in your household should be a tradition of years past, according to a new study. Older vehicles driven by freshly licensed 15, 16 and 17 year old drivers were involved in nearly half of all fatal teen automobile accidents, said […]
While cyberbullying continues to plague the youth population, another source of conflict is arising on social-media sites, concludes a 2014 study that tracks the computer habits of U.S. teens. Half of those surveyed said they got into an offline argument as a direct result of an online post. That number […]
The news about cyberbullying – a terrible trend involving online abuse between children, teens and young adults – just got worse. A study by McAfee, an Internet security company owned by Intel, reports cyberbullying incidents tripled in 2014. “Alarmingly…a whopping 87% have witnessed cyberbullying and 26% have been victims themselves,” […]
