The amusement park season is almost over again for the year -- but the debates about brain safety and roller coasters are still going on. There's an ongoing worry that gravitational forces (g-forces) from roller coasters are causing brain damage -- the fear has been...
Month: August 2017
What changes are coming to trucking logs?
Truck drivers are required to keep track of four major things in their log books: the amount of time they spend off duty, on duty, actually driving and sleeping.Traditionally, the paper sheets either came bound in a book or in loose-leaf form -- and many truckers (and...
Is a breach of confidentiality medical malpractice?
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was developed in response to the growing concern about patient privacy rights in this era where someone could easily obtain and misuse private medical information -- but it was never intended to give...
The main reasons behind big rig rollovers
It's hard not to be a little apprehensive when you're sharing the road with some big rigs -- if you know anything about them, you know rollovers are always a possibility.That makes it important to understand what puts a truck at greater risk for a rollover -- so that...
Patient abandonment and medical malpractice
What happens when your doctor leaves you in the lurch? Patients rely on their doctors for a certain continuity of care -- when the doctor suddenly leaves a patient without adequate medical care and no time to seek a replacement, that's a form of malpractice known as...