SFGH Trauma Surgeon Works to Prevent Injuries in San Francisco
UCSF Department of Surgery at Zuckerberg San Francisco General - August 08, 2011
UCSF News reports on the research of Dr. Rochelle Dicker and her team into pedestrian accident injury in San Francisco:
San Francisco General Hospital trauma surgeon Rochelle Dicker has treated many pedestrians who ended up in the emergency room after being struck by vehicles. She never refers to those collisions as accidents.
"An accident implies there is nothing we can do about it. Like it's an act of God. But an injury or crash implies that there is something we can do to potentially reduce risk and prevent harm," said Dicker, MD, one of the directors of the San Francisco Injury Center [...]