There is a lesson to be learned for all of us from football. After years of claiming dramatic head blows were just part of the game, the devastation of repeated hits has finally become clear. Reality is even harder to ignore when you realize that hundreds, if not thousands, of smaller collisions in a player’s […]

Sometimes when we adopt certain uses in language, we can turn something important into something that sounds rather ordinary and banal.  Consider the “retained object.”  That’s what hospitals and physicians call “things they left behind.”  Clamps, sponges, retractors, caps to instruments – all sorts of things can be left behind in the surgical field. Medicare […]

We heard this week about another outbreak of food-borne illness.  In this case, Chipotle, a company known for its freshly-sourced and made burritos was forced to close 43 locations due to an outbreak of e-coli. The internet is full of memes that read, “we didn’t have food poisoning when we were kids,” claiming that as […]

By now, we’ve all heard the story of the aunt who sued her 8 year old nephew for an over-zealous greeting that broke her wrist.  The original articles were outraged, “how could a loving aunt do such a thing!”  She was called all sorts of names. Since then, more facts came out.  She wanted her […]