Categories: Motor Vehicle Safety
October 19th, 2012 10:04 am ET -
Dr. Linda C. Degutis, DrPH, MSN
One of the most difficult things about working in the emergency department was making a phone call. Not just any phone call, but a call at midnight, or 2 a.m., a call to a parent who might be waiting for his teenager to return home from an evening out with friends. A call that would change a family forever. A call that no one ever wants to make. A call to say “I am calling about your son. He has been in a car crash and is in the emergency department. Can you come to the hospital? . . . Is there someone who can come with you?” It is the call that parents dread, and that we dreaded making. And, it is a call that doesn’t have to happen.
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Categories: CDC Injury Center, Violence Prevention
September 25th, 2012 9:42 am ET -
Guest Blogger: Helen Singer, MPH
This spring, after several of my close friends and family reached out to share the news that Mike Wallace, the legendary investigative journalist and “60 Minutes” anchor, had died, I sat down and had a good cry. It was as if I had lost a favorite uncle.
I know that it probably sounds strange that I was so personally affected by the passing of a famous newsman whose life was seemingly very different and removed from mine, but the fact is that Mike Wallace played a significant role in my decision to do what I do at CDC’s Division of Violence Prevention (DVP).
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Categories: CDC Injury Center, Home & Recreational Safety, Motor Vehicle Safety, Traumatic Brain Injury, Violence Prevention
September 11th, 2012 9:04 am ET -
Dr. Linda C. Degutis, DrPH, MSN
I still vividly remember my days working at a trauma center, treating victims of violence and traumatic events and working with communities to help prevent violence and injuries from happening in the first place.
I can clearly recall the faces and voices of children who came to the emergency department with injuries, and can still see the reactions of the parents who were told that their child had died from injuries; injuries that could have been prevented.
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Categories: CDC Injury Center, Home & Recreational Safety, Motor Vehicle Safety, Traumatic Brain Injury, Violence Prevention
September 5th, 2012 3:58 pm ET -
Guest Blogger: Wendy Holmes, MS
Back-to-school season seems to usher a school bus load of paper into our home. It starts with a cheerful postcard showing my child’s new teacher. Then comes the packet with the welcome letter, transportation form, lunch form, contact information form, medical information form, the Parent Teacher Association form, the…well, you get the idea.
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Categories: CDC Injury Center, Injury Response, Motor Vehicle Safety
August 21st, 2012 1:05 pm ET -
On this Boulevard de La Madeleine, Paris France, Dr. David Sleet was struck by a car – his pedestrian story impacts the work he does for the CDC Injury Center.
Guest blogger: David Sleet, PhD
I was a graduate student in Paris in 1972 – my first solo trip to the city of light. It was dusk and a group of classmates and I made our way to Boulevard de La Madeleine to shop. The narrow, seemingly pedestrian-friendly boulevard was alive, and it was cluttered with tourists and Parisians taking in the last minutes of light.
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Categories: CDC Injury Center, Home & Recreational Safety
July 31st, 2012 10:23 am ET -
Guest blogger: Julie Gilchrist, MD
Julie Gilchrist, MD
People who work in hospitals and emergency departments can tell you. Treating kids is a hard job—especially when a child comes in with a serious injury that could have been prevented. I still get sad remembering some of the cases I worked on as a doctor in Philadelphia—many of my stories don’t have happy endings.
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Categories: CDC Injury Center, Violence Prevention
June 18th, 2012 11:15 am ET -
Dr. Linda C. Degutis, DrPH, MSN
Last December, I was having a conversation with a friend about how many people are actually affected by intimate partner violence (IPV). When I said that 1 out of 4 women had experienced some form of intimate partner violence in their lifetime, my friend responded, “But, I don’t know anyone who has been abused.” My response: “You just don’t think you know anyone. It is hidden so often, and we often don’t think that intimate partner violence affects our friends and families.”
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Categories: CDC Injury Center, Home & Recreational Safety, Motor Vehicle Safety, Traumatic Brain Injury
June 13th, 2012 10:19 am ET -
We are excited to see how injury and violence professionals, students, and the general public can showcase what injury and violence prevention looks like in their own communities through the “Seeing My World through a Safer Lens” video contest. This challenge will award $500 per category (Student View, Injury and Violence Professional View, and General Public View) for the video that best reflects a prevention story about Violence Prevention, Home and Recreational Safety, Motor Vehicle Safety, or Traumatic Brain Injury.
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Categories: CDC Injury Center, Motor Vehicle Safety, Traumatic Brain Injury
June 5th, 2012 2:08 pm ET -
Guest blogger: Jessica Burke
Jessica's car after the crash
I could be a web developer anywhere. So, why do I choose to work at CDC’s Injury Center?
It’s because I know what it means to suffer a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). And I know how important it is to help prevent other people from going through what I went through one Thursday in August 2005.
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Categories: CDC Injury Center, Home & Recreational Safety
May 22nd, 2012 11:12 am ET -
Dr. Linda C. Degutis, DrPH, MSN
Starting from the time when drawings on cave walls portrayed tales about human life, people have been using images to tell their stories. Even a simple image can quickly communicate thousands of details, increase understanding about a difficult topic, or help us comprehend the relevance of complex data.
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