Some interesting stats from U.S. Says Preventable Injuries Serious Health Threat:
Injury is the top killer of Americans in the first four decades of life and costs the nation at least $260 billion in health care, lost productivity and other expenses each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.One in 10 people ends up in an emergency room each year as a result of car crashes, falls or violent acts.
Naturally this leads me to ask, how many of those people going to the emergency room need to go to the emergency room? That number seems quite high, since I’m certainly not in the emergency room — knock on wood — every ten years.