11-08-2018, 12:16 PM
(11-08-2018, 11:45 AM)HairOfTheDog Wrote: Ruth Bader Ginsburg fell at her office yesterday.
She felt some discomfort during the night and checked herself into the hospital for evaluation in the morning.
The injuries (3 fractured ribs) are not life-threatening and there's likely no surgery involved in her recuperation, thankfully.
my mom's doctorial dissertation classified "falls"; her conclusion, in the elderly there was a correlation between the fall and death. In a measurable percentage of the falls she studied, whether the person was injured or not, death followed in a few weeks. Her theory, the fall was an indicator, she speculated it was the mind letting go.