According to statistics kept by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 50,000 people are killed after suffering a traumatic head injury every year, and hundreds of thousands of others are forced to live with long-term disabilities.
Thousands of people are injured in San Diego car accidents every year, and many who have been harmed had little or nothing to do with creating the terrible challenges they face.
The world of medical science has made remarkable progress in recent years, and diseases and injuries can now be treated that were never treatable in the past.