Patrick J. McDaid, M.D.

Warm spring weather means grilling season! But it can also be “burn season.” Whether grease from a hamburger singed your hand, or you touched the grill cover to see whether it was hot (which it was) — your hands are the most likely appendage to suffer a grill injury during a cooking session in front of the BBQ. In fact, in a recent National Fire Protection Association report, 16,600 people go to the ER each year because of injuries involving grills, including 8,200 with therm