If the deck of an Aircraft Carrier is the busiest and most dangerous part of the entire ship, the Emergency Room, or ER, is the counterpart inside a hospital. In fact, it may even be worse because Emergency Rooms can be highly unpredictable.

No one can predict when a gunshot victim, the result of a robbery, will come in. Nor can anyone predict when multiple construction workers, injured by a collapsed building, will come in.

From a relaxed environment where doctors and interns get to pretend that wheelchairs are bumper cars, the place changes in to a serious area full of wild activity. Doctors will be shouting; nurses will be running; relatives will be crying; and patients may be dying.

It is during this time that patients are at their most vulnerable. And any mistake, even a minor one, by healthcare professionals, can dictate whether a person lives or dies.

And when a patient does die, the attending physicians will always end up saying that they did all that they could for the patient. And that dying was just not something they could hold back, given the seriousness of a patient’s injuries.

Naturally, questions will be asked by the surviving relatives. And it is possible that the truth will be obscured by healthcare professionals in order to protect their jobs.

Given this lack of cooperation, surviving relatives may have to resort to filing for medical negligence compensation just so they can learn the truth of what happened. And with the truth, the surviving ones may begin to find closure.

Irony and the Like
Rhetoric is an invaluable tool in persuasion. Devised by ancient philosophers as a way to control the unruly mob they encountered when pleading for public or private causes, this field introduces students to the considerations that surround the construction of arguments, the positioning of points, the elements of style, the techniques of elocution, and the art of memorization. A master in this field, a rhetorician, is someone who can invent arguments quickly, marshal them according to his audience’s disposition, clothes them with figures of speech and schemes, and delivers them with the attitude he needs to project, assisted only by a smattering of notes. If your lawyer has these qualities, then you can rely on him to win your cases, for example, your whiplash accident claim.

A good subject included in the study of Rhetoric as well involves the invention and application of jests. Many claimants, unaware that the courts do not merely encourage but positively demand respect, find out too late that jokes, witticisms, obscenities, and ironical statements are unwelcome and can even be a cause for being held in contempt. Although these techniques are effective outside the courts, particularly in our mass media, they are taboo in formal settings, such as courtly proceedings. If you have used them before to escape conflict, you cannot use them here because it will only worsen your position.

Examples of Parallelism
What is parallelism? In language studies, it is the orderly positioning of coordinate grammatical elements. Thus, adjectives should be paired with other adjectives, nouns with other nouns and so on. The final effect of this arrangement of material is that our works will receive grace, clarity, and elegance. These considerations may seem to be impertinent for people filing accident claims, such as a whiplash accident claim, but the irrelevance is only formal, not substantial. For the truth is that the orderly arrangement of our words also has a persuasive force.

Yes, words that follow close parallelism can convince more than those which are not, and as it is the conviction of the minds of the judges trying your case that you are after, then parallelism, as with all the other rhetorical strategies you can find and apply, will always be matters you should be concerned with. Why are paired words and thoughts more striking than those uttered or written loosely? The answer is that out minds are so constituted that it generally tends to like that which is orderly and rhythmic than that which is disorderly and cacophonous. The former sounds are peace-driven while the latter are usually portents of danger. A murmuring brook signals its safety with its silent whispers as the thunderous claps of the sky before raining signals danger, even death. The psychology is similar, though more subtle.

Why would a victim of an accident deserved to be awarded an injury at work compensation?

Well, simply because he is an employee who has been injured at work because his employer failed to consider his health and safety.

For instance, one worker was hurt because of lack protective equipment and the other worker was injured because of defective machinery.

Let’s go on to the details and find out why they deserved to be compensated.

The first worker sustained burns and eventually left scars on his arms and leg because his employer failed to provide him quality protective clothing. Not only that – he was not given proper training on how to use the protective gear. Another thing is that his supervisor did not orient him that the task assigned to him is too risky. He could have resisted it because it may endanger his life. True enough, he was badly hurt because the gear snapped. 

Moving on to the second case, a worker was hurt because of the faulty machine which was not fixed immediately. First, he was not informed that it was defective. Second, he was not given sufficient training on how to use it properly. Third, he was having a hard time proving that it’s not his fault.

Two cases which have a common denominator. Both were injured due to someone’s mistakes. Different scenarios, different kinds of injury, different intensity of pain, but both of them have the same right to claim for injury. It’s because they were injured in the workplace caused by others. A greater weight goes to the business owners who are supposed to protect their employees. 

These people are suffering from pain and financial setbacks that affects their daily lives. They deserves to be compensated for their loss, pain and suffering. It’s not only the physical pain but also the emotional stress and financial impact of the accident that should be compensated. It cannot really bring back the loss but it can ease the pain and alleviate the burden they carry. They both deserve injury at work compensation.

Work, work and more work. Where do you fit in? Are you willing to take risks?

Can you stand the sight of blood and work irregular and long hours? Then you can be a healthcare professional such as a doctor, nurse, physiotherapist or surgeon.

Is it ok with you if you take orders from a demanding customer in the restaurant? You can work as food service staff that runs to and from taking orders and delivering food to the customer in a restaurant or hotel. Sadly, they receive low pay.

Do you have a compassionate heart and willing to listen to the stories of abused kids and families? Are you willing to help them with their needs? You can fit in as a social worker who is kindhearted.

Are you creative with wide imagination? You can be an artist or an entertainer.

Are you willing to teach and loves children? A teacher is an appropriate job for you.

Do you know that administrative support staff taking instruction from a superior and work unpredictable days? You might want to work that way

Is it okay with you to always fix what is broken and work long hours? That’s what the job of maintenance staff.

Truly, these occupations perform challenging tasks that is physically demanding, emotionally exhausting and financially challenging. Their work is risky and may encounter an accident at work in the UK. They need to have enough strength to carry out their duty and take an extra care to avoid getting injured. 

As a breadwinner they need to sacrifice to provide for their family. As an employee they need to fulfill the task and follow rules. As a citizen they need to be law abiding citizen and not only protect themselves but others also.

A healthcare worker should be careful with his job so as not to be charged of medical negligence. A food service staff should be careful in running to and from to avoid slip or trips especially in wet area.  A maintenance staff needs to be alert all the time to prevent any injury whilst working on a difficult job. Taking extra care can make a difference.

Of course observing people is fun. If only we could see, really see, the things that we do to others and to ourselves, then I wonder if we could ever be interested in watching reality shows or movies ever again.

Take those who are demanding No Win No Fee claims, for example. Before their accidents they were usually happy-go-lucky people, the sort of people you usually predict leading mean and women of books ought to be. Always thinking that life is all for the good, that God will prohibit anything bad to happen, especially to them, and expecting things to always go on as planned, they become traumatized the moment these frames of mind are crushed by an injurious accident.

I would not have commented on them, except for the fact that after their accidents, I see them to undergo several psychological transformations, the end of which is to make me wonder if I could ever consider their new broken and hurt identities to be similar to the ones before.

This is what I mean. As if they were in denial, not really in a kind of understanding of how the world works, their injuries completely shatter their worldviews. Unlike people who are not so optimistic in life, these cheerful people after their accidents almost always lapse into a morose cynicism. It was as if the short moment of the injurious accident contained years and years of maturity that forced itself onto their consciousness without their having expected it.

Yes, that is probably the right term. That is, people who are recovering from an injurious accident and decide to file No Win No Fee claims experience not so much a learning process, but an aging process. They simply grow old.

This is what unperceptive people fail to realize. When they talk to people recovering from an injurious accident, they should not look at them as if they were still substantially who they were before the incident. Far from it, they should look at them as new individuals, as beings who have felt a dark enlightenment and forced to modify their old personalities to suit their new realities.