[1] Visits to ER plummet during key baseball games - "Visits to hospital emergency rooms in Boston plummeted during the city’s most nail-biting sports moments, according to a group of local doctors.

The team found that visits went down to as little as 80% of the average for the key Boston Red Sox games that attracted the most TV viewers.

[An explanation] is that people who attend ER are often not experiencing a medical emergency in the true sense of the word. “There is clearly some discretionary component that explains the timing,” says co-author Kenneth Mandl of Harvard Medical School."

Yeah, some "discretionary component?" How about [2] studies that show ony 13% of ED visits are actual emergencies?