In a recent post, we discussed challenges that Arizona cyclists and drivers confront when they need to share the road. Today, let’s take a step back and reflect on recent scientific literature to evaluate how different types of transportation affect our health and...
4 Infamous Bicycle Accidents
[And What Drivers and Cyclists Alike Can Learn from Their Aftermath] As summer heats up in Arizona, drivers need to be alert for dangers caused or exacerbated by high heat, including dust, drowsiness, dehydration, glare, car part breakdowns, and related challenges....
5 Famous Movie Scenes in Which a Car Hits a Cyclist
While car crashes alter the lives of thousands of Arizonans every year, these incidents occur discretely. As a result, unless you’ve actually been involved in a crash event relatively recently, you likely don’t have a visceral intuition for their effects. Film and...
Understanding the Statistically Real Dangers on Arizona’s Roads and Highways [As Opposed to the Perceived or Sensationalized Ones]
Transportation plays an intimate role in the daily life of Arizonans, whether you live way out in the desert and rely on roads to access necessities, or you work in the heart of downtown Phoenix and lean heavily on public transportation. But what are the true costs of...
The Future of Truck Safety: 4 Exciting Technologies That Could Substantially Reduce Injuries by 2025
From self-driving operation to 360-degree surround detection systems, modern vehicles are increasingly adopting technological solutions to safety issues on the road. But what about larger vehicles also sharing our freeways, like trucks and buses? According to a recent...
The Distinctive Characteristics of Doctors Who Face Malpractice Claims
Medical malpractice events don’t occur randomly, and we can learn a lot by studying statistics about how and why they occur. For instance, doctors who face multiple malpractice claims over the course of their careers tend to have certain well defined traits, according...
7 More Insights About the State of Medical Malpractice From New Survey
Medscape’s “Malpractice Report 2015: Why Most Doctors Get Sued” combined survey data from over 4,000 physicians to analyze the state of medical malpractice cases in the past year. Here are seven more valuable lessons to be gleaned from the survey’s results. (Part 1 of...
7 Takeaways from Big New Survey About Medical Malpractice
Over the past year, Medscape surveyed nearly 4,000 primary care doctors and specialists to learn more about the medical malpractice lawsuits they faced. Medscape’s “Malpractice Report 2015: Why Most Doctors Get Sued” collected and organized the results. This survey...
Big Decline in Hospital Errors. Is Obamacare Responsible? If Not, What Is?
Has the passage of the Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. “Obamacare”) led to a meaningful reduction in fatal medical errors? If so, why, and what can we collectively learn to continue to improve treatment? A report from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality...
Four of 2015’s Most Unusual Car Accidents
As 2016 dawns, and most of us are testing the resolve of our resolutions for the new year, let’s take a beat to reflect on the critical car accident events of 2015 to obtain guidance for how to drive safely in the year ahead. Below, we’ve summarized several of 2015’s...
