This entry is part 27 of 32 in the series Quinn Part Twenty-Seven By Attorney Gordon Johnson 800-992-9447 I turned to a discussion of Quinn’s frontal lobe issues with his wife: You said he had a child-like dependency when he came home. Is that less than it was? Less..
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Houston Chronicle columnist Loren Steffy Saturday offered a thoughtful, and critical, column about the U.S. oil industry and its unwillingness to take responsibility safety issues. http://www.chron.com/business/steffy/article/Steffy-Safety-and-prevention-to-dominate-OTC-3518508.php Ostensibly, the column was a preview of a major trade show that starts this week in Houston, the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC). But Steffy..
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An Australia court has ordered the Kentucky Fried Chicken chain to pay $8.3 million to the family of a girl who suffered severe brain damage after eating a chicken wrap. Monika Samaan was a 7-year-old in October 2005 when she got salmonella poisoning, salmonella encephalopathy, after having a chicken meal..
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Who knew that our behavior at cocktail parties could teach us a lesson about the brain? The Wall Street Journal last week did a story on research that was conducted by the University of California in San Francisco, a study that was published recently in the Nature journal. It’s all..
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A pioneering study on boxers has found that their brains undergo changes after repeated blows, changes before they show any symptoms, according to a story this week in The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/25/health/research/study-shows-changes-in-fighters-brains-before-symptoms.html?_r=1 The article was about research being conducted by the Cleveland Clinic’s Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health...
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This entry is part 26 of 32 in the series Quinn Part Twenty-Six By Attorney Gordon Johnson 800-992-9447 We’ve covered a number of executive functioning and frontal lobe issues in our conversation but we haven’t specifically addressed them in a more systematic way, so I’m going to talk to..
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This entry is part 25 of 32 in the series Quinn Part Twenty-Five By Attorney Gordon Johnson 800-992-9447 In our last part, we discussed the changed dynamic from lover to caregiver that causes so much friction in marriages after severe brain injury. Quinn’s wife continued to search for explanations:..
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Here’s another oil rig death for you, this one in Oklahoma City. Peter Cleeland, 45, died Monday night when he was pinned under a heavy piece of equipment, according to Koco.com. http://www.koco.com/news/30948502/detail.html#ixzz1szYlaTbJ Cleeland was killed when a hydraulic line broke at an oil rig at Southeast 59th Street. He was..
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The oil industry is crowing that it learned valuable safety lessons from the Deepwater Horizon disaster two years ago, where 11 workers were killed, according to a recent report by Vermont Public Radio (VPR). But any such knowledge doesn’t address the new issue the industry faces, which is that its..
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This entry is part 24 of 32 in the series Quinn Part Twenty-Four By Attorney Gordon Johnson 800-992-9447 Quinn Part Twenty Four – Further Recovery Leaves Tangible TBI Deficits In our previous part, Quinn’s wife describes how time and the ability to return to his normal depression meds had..
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