A drop in the number of men going to the emergency room during sports broadcasts on TV is followed by a surge afterward, reports an ER doctor who reviewed case numbers over three years at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore.
"It was a two-stage decision: If they were hurt, whether to go to the hospital or not. If they needed to go to the hospital, could they finish the game or not?''
The study looked at ER visits after NFL, major league baseball and University of Maryland football and basketball games.
Overall, the number of ER visits was 40 percent above the average for the same time and day of the week without a sportscast.
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
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