Prompt Medical Care After an Accident

Posted on May 13, 2009 by Martin Solomon

Many times immediately after an accident, even though a person is injured, the adrenalin rush minimizes any pain. Because of this condition, individuals requiring emergency care may postpone obtaining treatment.

Within a day or two after the accident, pain otherwise absent begins to appear.

This delay in diagnosis and treatment can result in increased injury, prolonged care and rehabilitation.

In addition, it may appear to the untrained observer that an injury should be present immediately after an accident and therefore any delayed appearance means that the injury has been manufactured.

The lesson to be learned is that anyone involved in an accident should be seen at a hospital emergency room or by a family physician as soon as possible.

Remember, early evaluation and treatment can avoid costly and painful consequences.

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Fighting The Giants

Posted on May 8, 2009 by Martin Solomon

It was Sunday and I was reading “The New Yorker” magazine when I came across an article written by John Seabrook.

It concerned a speech given by Phillip Howard promoting his new book “Life Without Lawyers.” As reported, Howard talked about “lawyers who hang out at the intersection of tragedy and greed.”

Well, that got my attention and my dander up.

He went on to praise President Obama’s call for “a new era of personal responsibility” and told the audience that Americans are constrained by too many rules and that “any time someone gets angry they can sue.”

Considering the fact that the world is in the worst economic position in history next to the great depression caused by an American administration that abandoned rules and ignored enforcement, I am surprised he had any audience at all.

The problem Mr. Howard fails to address is the unequal balance of power that enabled financial institutions to run amok.

The same unequal balance of power exists in industry enabling pharmaceutical manufacturers to place deadly drugs in the marketplace, tire manufacturers to sell defective tires, and the insurance industry to abuse its policy holders.

Personal responsibility without the power to stand up to the abusers of power is slavery.

It is the brokers of power that “hang out a the intersection of tragedy and greed.”

The equal balance of power is indispensable and one only hopes that President Obama’s new era of personal responsibility includes an new era of industry accountability.

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