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You would think hospitals are safe places. And they generally are. Yet injuries do happen *in* hospitals. And the # 1 injury is falling down, as this chilling excerpt from WBUR in Boston relates: It had been a typical Friday afternoon in the summer. “All of a sudden, out of nowhere, we heard a humongous [...] Fractures most common injury; one in three injuries required hospitalization From 2001 to 2006, an average of 129 Americans ages 65 and older were treated in emergency departments each day—a total of more than 47,000 each year—for injuries from falls that involved walkers and canes, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study [...] |
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