Pitch Fever: Patients hold off ER care during high-adrenalin games

27th Sep 2005, 01:09 GMT

Here's one way to ensure fewer patients find their way to the emergency room. More games for Red Sox! This isn't a frivolous comment but a fact derived from serious research. Ben Reis and John Brownstein, researchers from Children's Hospital Boston, found that visits to the ER dropped as much as 15 per cent in Boston hospitals when Red Sox played well