Children are to be seen and not heard! How many times have I heard that phrase? It was the environment in which I grew up. To me, what is the point of having children if they’re not to be heard and only to be seen? Have you ever sat and had conversation with an 8 [...]
This past weekend I had the chance to visit with my mother and now deceased aunt in Rhode Island. Amy, the kids, and myself found ourselves having breakfast at the Classic Café and talk about a name being perfect for a restaurant. What makes a café classic? We walked in and were greeted by vintage [...]
On December 4, 2012, Zephyr Oil--a Brooklyn-based gasoline distributor--purchased over 70,000 gallons of gas. Except, incredibly unusually, this was not ordinary gasoline. It was avgas, or a kind of aviation fuel. In contrast with regular gasoline, which is obviously acceptable for use in regular automobiles, avgas contains a substance called "tetraethyl lead." The chemical is [...]
Between 2003 and 2006, there were approximately 458 million hospital emergency room visits by U.S. patients. And a recent study by the Health Services Research Journal, in conjunction with the CDC's National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, has brought to light a startling statistic. According to the study, about 125 million workers in the [...]
An explosion yesterday in Ewing, NJ caused damage to at least 55 units on Scenic Drive. I could feel the blast from my office right across the street and could see the massive smoke rising above the trees. It occurred only a few blocks from Lore Elementary School and I immediately went there to [...]
Being a nurse is the type of job that requires a certain personality. It requires someone to be caring and have sense of wanting to help others and yet at the same time a personality that requires giving a good kick in the (you know what) at times to help a patient heal. It is [...]
A recent study by Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine examined the underlying reasons for ever-growing healthcare costs in the United States. The study approached this issue from the standpoint of the following question: are medical malpractice lawsuits, and subsequent judgments or settlements, responsible for expensive American healthcare? The answer: no, at least [...]
On October 9, 2011, Steven Chrzanowski—of Gloucester City, N.J.—was visiting a “haunted house” on the site of the old Pennhurst Asylum. The asylum is an infamous site that was at the center of Halderman v. Pennhurst State School & Hospital, a controversial United States Supreme Court case that granted the developmentally disabled certain constitutional rights [...]
"After years of prominence in his field,” said U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman, “Jose Katz will now be remembered for his record-setting fraud.” According to federal prosecutors, the 68-year-old cardiologist from Closter, N.J.—with offices in both New York City and New Jersey—committed decades-long fraud. Authorities called it the single largest health care fraud case ever recorded [...]
According to a number of recent articles on the subject, lawsuits—personal injury or otherwise—that are brought as a result of school bullying and that name schools as defendants are on the rise. These cases, easier to bring than to win, generally assert that the school districts in question did not address received complaints or inadequately [...]
