the majority of blunt trauma is secondary to motor vehicle crashes,especially in those wearing seatbelts or sitting in the front or passenger seat location.hollow viscus gastrointestinal injuries occur more frequently in small bowel, followed by colorectal, duodenum, stomach and appendix. a 25-year-old male presents after being involved in a motor vehicle accident. initialworkup was significant...

This paper examines the hypothesis that greater job status makes a person healthier. It begins by successfully replicating the well-known cross-section association between health and job seniority. Then, however, it turns to longitudinal patterns. Worryingly for the hypothesis, the data-on a large sample of randomly selected British workers through time-suggest that people who start with good h...

Depending on your perspective, donation after cardiac death (DCD) is a welcome boost for organ donation or an ethical quagmire. In July 2007, DCD was shoved into the spotlight when a transplant surgeon in California was charged with 3 felony counts related to a patient who was expected to undergo DCD. Although no organs were donated, the surgeon allegedly violated the law and failed to follow t...