- Wayne Parsons | August 31, 2009 9:27 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsA KITV News story reports that criminal charges face the driver of a car that crashed in Waimanalo early Sunday morning ejecting a young passenger. The teenager is in critical condition. Police said...
- Wayne Parsons | August 31, 2009 6:50 AM |
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MiscellaneousI wonder if Len Kleinrock has a Blog? His team at UCLA began tests 40 years ago that resulted in the internet.
It all began with a comic book! At the age of 6, Leonard Kleinrock was reading a...
- Wayne Parsons | August 31, 2009 12:16 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsAlcohol Alert, a company that sells prevention devices to reduce drunk driving, and drunk driving injury and death report on Hawaii Drunk Driving Statistics:
In Hawaii, the alcohol related deaths...
- Wayne Parsons | August 30, 2009 7:59 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsThe Honolulu Star Bulletin reports another pedestrian death, this time in Kona. The victim was 56-years-old and passed away after being struck by a car while walking along Route 190 in North Kona,...
- Wayne Parsons | August 30, 2009 7:28 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsAnother hit-and-run victim _ a 55-year-old woman in a wheelchair _ is reported in the Star Bulletin today:
A 55-year-old Mililani woman in a wheelchair was struck by a vehicle about 10:20 p.m....
- Wayne Parsons | August 30, 2009 7:05 PM |
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Nursing Home & Elder AbusePermanent wounds that never heal afflict over six million people in the U.S. The wound sometimes appear to heal but then return. Elderly nursing home residents see them as dangerous bed sores or...
- Wayne Parsons | August 30, 2009 3:44 AM |
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Wrongful DeathIts Saturday and I am thinking about which of my weekend chores to take on first. Then I started thinking about people out in their yards and around the house doing the weekend chores and the fact...
- Wayne Parsons | August 29, 2009 4:17 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsThe hit-and-run driver of a vehicle that struck and killed 68-year-old Pelagia Igne last week remains at large. The public is being asked to help bring the driver to justice.
GEORGE F. LEE /...
- Wayne Parsons | August 29, 2009 1:37 PM |
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Medical Devices & ImplantsTiming is everything in surgery and blood analysis informs the doctors about the presence of disease. Now a team of British electronic professors and medical doctors has developed a new device to do...
- Wayne Parsons | August 29, 2009 2:31 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsMost of us don't become angry because the driver ahead of us is driving the speed limit. Some do. They are dangerous people. That make high risk choices. They probably drink a lot.
Let me indulge...
- Wayne Parsons | August 28, 2009 6:47 PM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsThe AP (8/27) reported, Chrysler Group LLC said Thursday it will accept product liability claims in a broader number of cases than originally planned in its reorganization under bankruptcy...
- Wayne Parsons | August 27, 2009 10:28 PM |
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Medical MalpracticeT.R. Reid a former Washington Post reporter and author of The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care, to be published this week writes on Sunday, August 23,...
- Wayne Parsons | August 27, 2009 3:00 PM |
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Medical MalpracticeWJXX-TV Jacksonville, FL (8/26, Weeder, Wax) on its website reported, The death of Petty Officer Nathan Hafterson is being used in a petition filed with U.S. Supreme Court asking the high court to...
- Wayne Parsons | August 27, 2009 4:48 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsToday I write about the Interstate Highways in Hawaii. No confusing numbering system here on Oahu: H-1, H-2 and H-3. There you have it. So it should be simple you'd think to identify the locations...
- Wayne Parsons | August 26, 2009 2:54 PM |
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Medical MalpracticeDo you love your insurance company? I'm not talking about the friendly Agent who sold you the policy and sends you a pocket calendar on your birthday each year. I love my agent. He is a great guy....
- Wayne Parsons | August 25, 2009 2:25 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsDevon Glass from Church Wyble, P.C. and Steve Lombardi from The Lombardi Law Firm are experimenting with a joint project about highway safety. They are looking at trends and tendencies of accidents...
- Wayne Parsons | August 25, 2009 1:33 PM |
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Medical MalpracticeHearst Newspapers (8/24, Dunham) reported,
While the White House acknowledges that hospital medical errors are 'a big and serious problem,' a senior administration official says President Barack...
- Wayne Parsons | August 25, 2009 8:21 AM |
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Wrongful DeathMinna Sugimoto (bio | email) of KHNL TV News covered the Court story in Honolulu of Andra Kimp who is now behind bars serving 20 years for a 2003 DUI crash that killed his passenger.
The deadly...
- Wayne Parsons | August 25, 2009 3:32 AM |
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Medical MalpracticeThe Buffalo News (8/22, Zremskie) reported, Dr. Richard Vienne of Amherst (NY) and many of his colleagues nationwide say there's one thing missing from the great debate over health care reform: any...
- Wayne Parsons | August 25, 2009 3:18 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsWhat is a life worth? How much do bike paths cost? What is a life in a wheel chair with a brain injury worth? How much does a good crosswalk warning light system cost? Health, injury death and money...
- Wayne Parsons | August 24, 2009 8:05 PM |
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Wrongful DeathHawaii like most states witnesses teenage death and serious injury most frequently because of suicide and car crashes. A new study shows that Hawaii _ which used to be the safest place for Keiki is...
- Wayne Parsons | August 24, 2009 5:09 PM |
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Workplace DiscriminationTes
- Wayne Parsons | August 24, 2009 2:04 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsHawaii is a great place to ride a bicycle. Great weather and beautiful scenery. We have many biking events like The Ironman Triathlon in Kona and many other events that fill the roads with bicycles...
- Wayne Parsons | August 24, 2009 1:56 PM |
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Workplace DiscriminationThom Hartmann has a proposal to fix the economy that is at first glance odd but on second thought makes some sense. His proposal to fix our economic woes? Lower the retirement age to 55. Mr....
- Wayne Parsons | August 23, 2009 4:41 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsAbout six hours after a 68-year old Ewa Beach woman was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver on Fort Weaver Road in Ewa Beach a young boy on a bicycle was struck by a hit-and-run driver on...
- Wayne Parsons | August 23, 2009 4:05 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsA young Sailor is dead after being struck by a truck that crossed the centerline on Kamehameha Highway near Kualoa Ranch and struck his bicycle. Nothing can be more tragic than the death of a...
- Wayne Parsons | August 22, 2009 9:18 PM |
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Automobile Accidents
If you know anything about an older light colored van that hit and killed a 68-year old woman on Fort Weaver Road on Thursday please call the police. The woman was fatally injured when she was...
- Wayne Parsons | August 22, 2009 8:56 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsYes I am obsessed with crosswalk safety. I know that we as a community can reduce death and injury of pedestrians at crosswalks.
The Hawaii Pedestrian Crosswalk Safety Chronicles: Innovative...
- Wayne Parsons | August 22, 2009 8:34 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsScienceDaily (Aug. 21, 2009) reports on a discovery by scientists at UCLA that identifies a gene linked with physical pain sensitivity that is also linked with social pain sensitivity. The gene...
- Wayne Parsons | August 21, 2009 2:20 PM |
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Wrongful Death
Resorts around the world offer ocean activities that often include snorkeling and SCUBA diving. Fish can breathe underwater. People can't do that. Birds can fly. Okay, you get the picture.
There...
- Wayne Parsons | August 21, 2009 1:32 PM |
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Workplace DiscriminationThe Washington Post (8/21, Whoriskey) reports, The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit against AT&T on Thursday, alleging that the telecommunications giant is...
- Wayne Parsons | August 21, 2009 3:22 AM |
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Motorcycle AccidentsMari-Ela David (bio | email) of KHNL News reports on some of the most encouraging news regarding motorcycle riding in Hawaii this year in her story from Wahiawa today.
I have written many...
- Wayne Parsons | August 21, 2009 2:51 AM |
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Medical MalpracticeThe Republican - Insurance Industry attack on the Public Plan, Single Payer Health Care Plan is about as corrupt and shallow as politics get anywhere. The only hole low enough for them to stoop...
- Wayne Parsons | August 20, 2009 2:39 PM |
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Automobile Accidents
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A nationwide campaign to prevent drunk drivers from killing people over the Labor day Holiday is underway across the country. I searched...
- Wayne Parsons | August 20, 2009 4:06 AM |
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Medical MalpracticeWhat the heck is www.kucinich.com ?
Truth.
Dennis Kucinich.
No spin.
Dennis Kucinich.
No media.
Dennis Kucinich.
Smart.
Dennis Kucinich.
No sex and Rock & Roll.
Not 100% sure about...
- Wayne Parsons | August 19, 2009 2:37 PM |
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Nursing Home & Elder AbuseSome days are better than others. Yesterday was a great day. I was at Maluhia Nursing Home in Honolulu where I donated two Nintendo Wii games to the facility. A raucous group of residents gathered...
- Wayne Parsons | August 19, 2009 2:19 PM |
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Medical MalpracticeLook what happened while I and my staff was at Maluhia Nursing home in Honolulu on Monday donating two Nintendo Wii video games to the delighted residents as a part of the national effort by 60 law...
- Wayne Parsons | August 18, 2009 3:29 PM |
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MiscellaneousCecelia Prewett of the American Association of Justice has written an interesting and informative article about the (lack of) effectiveness of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) at its...
- Wayne Parsons | August 18, 2009 3:56 AM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsMy preference for cancer is to start with what we know. Knowing something is not hearing something or reading something. It is understanding.
Here are the facts about the effect of HPV vaccination...
- Wayne Parsons | August 18, 2009 3:32 AM |
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Medical MalpracticeJoanne Doroshow has been telling us about it for years. If you care about health care I hope that you join the Center For Justice & Democracy (CJ&D). Doroshow is an American hero.
Also...
- Wayne Parsons | August 17, 2009 7:32 PM |
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MiscellaneousIn a news release from Reuters to by Daniel Trotta the largest identity theft scam in U.S history was busted with three indictments today in New York City. Hold your breath: 130 million credit and...
- Wayne Parsons | August 17, 2009 1:08 PM |
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MiscellaneousIn 2007 Nintendo got the good news that its innovative Wii video game had been acknowledged by physical therapists as a tool in the health and rehabilitation of their patients.
Nintendo Wii...
- Wayne Parsons | August 17, 2009 12:31 PM |
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Motorcycle AccidentsI have written at length about the increasing statistics of death and injury to motorcycle riders in Hawaii.
Motorcycle Deaths Skyrocket On Oahu
Today a Lahaina man is fighting for his life after...
- Wayne Parsons | August 17, 2009 12:01 PM |
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MiscellaneousThe arrived in the mail. The old fashioned mail not e-mail. It asked a Hilo man for bank account information and said they were looking for heirs in connection with a transfer of $15 million.
The...
- Wayne Parsons | August 16, 2009 2:28 PM |
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MiscellaneousI have written about the news story that is shaking the country: DEAD BY MISTAKE. Kudos to Hearst News for telling the truth to the public!
Here are the stories behind DEAD BY MISTAKE.
Mother...
- Wayne Parsons | August 16, 2009 2:02 PM |
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Medical MalpracticeCathleen F. Crowley and Eric Nadler have published a blockbuster expose entitled DEAD BY MISTAKE that exposes the truth about what is wrong with American health care and it isn't doctors being sued...
- Wayne Parsons | August 16, 2009 2:38 AM |
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Medical MalpracticeThe news story is pretty frightening. Incompetence comes to mind.
The staff at a Charleston, South Carolina hospital informed them the parents of a baby born that the child died. Can you...
- Wayne Parsons | August 16, 2009 2:10 AM |
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Medical Malpractice
Why don't doctors talk about this statistic? Forty thousand patients dead _ each year _ because of a medical error.
Does America have the finest health care system in the world? We have a lot of...
- Wayne Parsons | August 16, 2009 1:47 AM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsBloomberg News (8/13, Randall) reports that new regulations posted on the FDA's website Wednesday will grant seriously ill patients greater access to experimental drugs. The FDA said the rules let...
- Wayne Parsons | August 15, 2009 3:17 PM |
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Workplace InjuriesWhat is the most dangerous job? The construction industry ranks first as the most hazardous occupation in the United States. I have written about construction site personal injury before in the...
- Wayne Parsons | August 15, 2009 2:37 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsIn the 1950s the medical profession did not recognize whiplash as a medical condition. It was through attorneys seeking explanations of injuries from treating doctors that stimulated medical insight...
- Wayne Parsons | August 15, 2009 1:56 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsA sad report on Friday in the Honolulu Star Bulletin on-line edition notes the 14th traffic fatality this year on the Big Island: a 58 year old man from Pahoa who was a passenger in the car that...
- Wayne Parsons | August 14, 2009 7:28 PM |
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MiscellaneousThe AP (8/13, Freed) reported, Bank of America Corp. said that as of Thursday it will stop requiring that disputes with its credit card holders and banking and lending customers be settled by...
- Wayne Parsons | August 13, 2009 10:53 PM |
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Medical MalpracticeLet me start with the facts.
98,000 Americans die from preventable medical errors each year!
99,000 Americans die from preventable hospital acquired infections each year!
The cat is out of...
- Wayne Parsons | August 13, 2009 9:49 PM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsMcGill University researchers in Canada have announced that _ in mice _ they may have found a way to treat and cure multiple sclerosis (MS). In animals they can reverse the devastating disease with...
- Wayne Parsons | August 12, 2009 5:02 PM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsWe have a problem in the U.S. with holding foreign manufacturers responsible for harm their defective products cause here in the States. One example was the salmonella problem from Mexican tomatoes...
- Wayne Parsons | August 06, 2009 5:41 PM |
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Automobile Accidents In a report in U.S. News & World Report a pickup truck recall is initiated by automakers.
A brake light defect in General Motors trucks could lead to an an accident. GM is recalling about...
- Wayne Parsons | August 06, 2009 5:26 PM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsThe New York Times (8/6, B4, Shih) reports, Merck and Schering-Plough agreed Wednesday to pay $41.5 million to settle class-action lawsuits that accused them of withholding unfavorable results of a...
- Wayne Parsons | August 04, 2009 4:19 PM |
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MiscellaneousWasn't it just a month ago that we were all talking in Hawaii and death and injury from a missile attack from North Korea on Honolulu? Well there was a serious mood swing on that paranoia today. And...
- Wayne Parsons | August 04, 2009 3:04 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsEver here the saying that speed kills. Well its true according to a recent study of deaths on U.S. highways. But does this apply in Hawaii? Are Honolulu and Oahu roads in need of new lower speed...
- Wayne Parsons | August 04, 2009 2:27 PM |
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Toxic SubstancesThe Washington Post (8/4, Leonnig) reports that congressional investigators have found that more than twice the previously reported number of D.C. children were found to have high levels of lead in...