The U.S. workforce lost 407 million days of work to illness in 2005, and workers without paid time off to see a physician were more likely to report missing work. That’s a lot of days — but that number would probably be much higher if it weren’t for some fundamental innovations in medicine.
The industrial workers that Labor Day was meant to honor still deal with more physical occupational hazards than the office-dwelling folk, the most common among them being muscle strains and sprains, cuts and punctures, and pain. As we salute the labor force today, let’s also take a moment on Labor Day 2012 to hail these and other medical innovations that have made life better for the modern working man and woman.
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