Mr Smart, who spent three weeks in hospital and five months off work after the operation, is taking legal action against Caerphilly Miners Hospital, where he was taken after the accident. Look what snowmobiles can do Support your local mortician. Of the 400 Alaskans due to be killed or hospitalized due to snowmachine or ATV related trauma this year,120 will be children or teenagers. Support your local nursing home. Forty percent of the injured have no insurance and the public pays the price of medical care and long-term care.
Every parent dreads it.
Almost overnight a sweet, cheerful, obedient child mutates into a churlish monster prone to recklessness and unpredictable mood swings. This is adolescence. Parents and experts have always blamed the same hormones that catapult young bodies into adulthood for the sleeping until noon, the reckless driving, the drug use and the other woes of adolescence. But recent research shows that what's going on above teen-agers' necks, not raging hormones, explains the changes. Beginning around age 11, the brain undergoes major reorganization in an area associated with things like social behavior and impulse control.