As a physician on duty in the emergency room, you could expect
a. alcohol ingestion would make drinkers so relaxed that they would suffer fewer head injuries than nondrinkers in similar automobile accidents.
b. about half of the patients you see who have a traumatic injury will have been drinking immediately prior to the incident.
c. improved survival rates for drinkers, who would be more likely to be thrown from a vehicle during an accident.
d. no relationship between the individual’s alcohol use status and his or her having suffered a traumatic injury of some kind.
b. about half of the patients you see who have a traumatic injury will have been drinking immediately prior to the incident.
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