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Last week, I wrote a piece entitled "Who is Protecting Our Cheerleaders?" Shortly after I wrote the entry, I received an email from Debbie Bracewell, the executive director of the National Council...

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It is undisputed that driving safety is an issue for teenage drivers. More than 5,000 U.S. teens die each year in auto accidents, and the rate of crashes for teens is almost 10 times the rate for...

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It is a rite and tradition. Each fall Friday night in Texas, thousands of high school students suit up for football games. Young kids proudly pull on their pants, shoulder pads and helmets and line...

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We have devoted the month of August to Wrong Site Surgeries. Our series started out by looking at the Universal Protocol, the standard of care on how to avoid wrong site surgeries. The standard was...

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Last week, in the wake of the Sherman bus wreck, I reported that Texas had taken a giant leap forward during the 2007 legislative session by passing a law that requires school buses to be equipped...

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Over the last few days we've been looking at the three elements in the standard of care for avoiding wrong-site surgeries. The first element is establishment of a pre-operative verification process....

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Today, we continue looking at the standard of care for avoiding wrong-site surgeries. The first step is to establish a pre-operative verification process. The second step in the Joint Commission...

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This is the second part of our series on wrong site, wrong side, wrong patient, wrong procedure surgeries. Today we're looking at the history of the standard of care and the first element that each...

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The Houston Chronicle is now reporting that the tour operator that drove the bus involved in the Sherman, Texas bus wreck had a history of fines and compliance issues. In fact, in June the Federal...

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There was terrible news of a bus crash in Sherman, Texas early this morning. A charter bus carrying 55 people from Houston to Carthage, Mo. for a religious celebration ran off the road and into a...

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