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Multiple slashes - It must have been a really tough roast beef.jimlongley wrote:One of my favorites was the woman who came in to our ER with multiple slash marks crossing her left wrist, including a couple deep enough to nick the Carpal Tunnel sheath and the artery adjacent. She claimed that she had been carving a roast beef and did it by accident.
A car crash describes what actually happened. Calling it an accident or negligent can assign a value judgement to the event.srothstein wrote:I tried but I just could not resist. DPS used this same argument about the cause to rename them car crashes. They even renamed the form to "CR-3" for "Crash Report".ScottDLS wrote:Many, if not most, car accidents are the result of negligence (distracted, speeding, drunk, etc.). We still call them accidents unless someone intentionally hit someone.... Car negligents?
And it has not had the effect of reducing the number of crashes or making people see them as avoidable.
I agree that the terminology is not as important as the communication. As long as we all know what we are talking about, the name of the incident is not really that important.
