Pedestrian road traffic collisions continue to account for a large number of the clients attending the accident & emergency units in South Africa. These victims include both adults and children, and can lead to se...
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[National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Medical conditions and driver crash risk: do license restrictions affect public safety? Ann Emerg Med. August 2000;36:164-165.]
[National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Medical conditions and driver crash risk: do license restrictions affect public safety? Ann Emerg Med. August 2000;36:164-165.]
Communicating with health care professionals and patients is critical to our clinical perfor- mance. As health care profes- sionals, we cultivate our capac- ity to critically observe and listen. Within and beyond the ...
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Communicating with health care professionals and patients is critical to our clinical perfor- mance. As health care profes- sionals, we cultivate our capac- ity to critically observe and listen. Within and beyond the bounds of polite everyday exchanges, we are provided with opportunities to make and record significant and vital observations that may translate into health promotion and dis- ease prevention, as well as gain information that may factor into our diagnosis and prognosis of craniofacial orodental trauma, diseases or other disorders. By being curious and engaged, we can receive answers that may illuminate important avenues for health promotion. By read- ing our patients" subtle cues or gestures, we truly become and are perceived by our profession- al colleagues, staff and patients to be a doctor and colleague who really cares. Our communication compe- tencies may be an even larger and more significant dimension of our professionalism than we fully appreciate. By talking with and listening to our patients, while demonstrating compassion and empathy, we can establish relationships with them in which they view us as dental health care professionals with an emphasis on the "care."25Learning how to inter- personally communicate well with and cultivating better rela- tionships with our patients pro- vides us with a wellspring of even more trust from which we may never need to drink. But if we do, it is there and can save lives and promote health.
Waters et al. suggested that the effects of nicotine withdrawal increase the chances of an accident at work. The second Wednesday of March is 'No Smoking Day' (NSD) in the United Kingdom. If the 'accident ...
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Waters et al. suggested that the effects of nicotine withdrawal increase the chances of an accident at work. The second Wednesday of March is 'No Smoking Day' (NSD) in the United Kingdom. If the 'accident effect' is real, increased numbers of other types of accident would be expected on NSD. I have investigated this possibility by using data from the UK national STATS19 accident reporting system, which records details of personal injury accidents occurring on public roads in which at least one road vehicle, or a vehicle in collision with a pedestrian, is involved, and which becomes known to the police within 30 days of its occurrence. Damage-only accidents are not included. The date of the accident is also recorded.
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