More and more of our population is aging into retirement. With advancing technology and more complicated government programs than ever before, the potential for abuse is growing every day. The advent of cell phones saw a brief drop in telephone scams, especially as more people became Internet savvy and able to identify untrustworthy callers. However, [...]
Tragedy struck the Greene County Fair in early August when three girls fell from a faulty Ferris wheel gondola. The car apparently flipped while the ride was in motion, spilling the girls more than thirty feet to the pavement below. Bystanders got the operator to stop the ride to prevent further injuries, but the damage [...]
For those without perfect vision, contact lenses can be a godsend. Two small, lightweight cups bring a blurry world into crisp focus in an instant; contact lenses are a marvel of modern science. Years of refinement led to the development of a space age material called Hydrogel that is machined into lenses of various shapes [...]
Reports about the failures of the Veterans Affairs department have been much in the news since 2014, when a man died after waiting more than a year to be treated. The incredible backlog of veterans waiting to receive care, substandard treatment, systematic infrastructure failures and chronic understaffing are common knowledge. Each new report merely confirms [...]
A Tennessee Department of Transportation road crew was en route to a job when one of the three road-maintenance vehicles punctured a tire. The crew pulled the trucks to the side of the road and turned on emergency lights before beginning to unload repair equipment. It was business as usual until a semi truck veered [...]
No one ever plans on being hurt in a serious auto accident, but we all take precautions – like buying insurance – in case we are. The Tennessee Yellow DOT Program is another great tool for helping people who suffer some kind of medical emergency while on a Tennessee roadway. The Rocky McElhaney Law Firm [...]
The big yellow buses are back on the road, signaling the start of another school year. Kids are back to classrooms that would be unfamiliar to most of us. Gone are the dusty chalkboards and squeaking media carts; in their place, smart whiteboards and online assignments. But the more things change, the more they stay [...]
New research from Johns Hopkins has identified a potentially fatal flaw in the current methods used to evaluate surgeons in training. The study followed 23 Johns Hopkins medical residents, ranging from their first to fifth year of residency, as they performed three different approaches to a common shoulder surgery on cadavers. The results were encouraging [...]
A tractor-trailer cargo spill in Mt. Pleasant left a roadway significantly damaged in June after molten aluminum set the asphalt on fire. Luckily, the driver of the truck escaped unharmed and no other vehicles were involved. Just one short month later, another devastating crash miraculously ended with no loss of life. Truck accidents almost always [...]
In 2011, the University of Washington Medical Center published the results of a study that examined recurring headaches in traumatic brain injury victims. The findings upset the prevailing medical opinion at the time; prior to the study, medical experts believed that headaches resulting from a TBI would become less frequent and less painful over time. [...]
