As a Physician on Duty in the Emergency Room, You

question 20

Multiple Choice

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.