Anger News Bulletin: People Who Get Mad Get Hurt

Geezer is still trying to figure out if it is news to anyone on the planet Earth that anger can increase the likelihood of injury. On the off chance that it is (and that this whole thing is a lot more complicated that Geezer thinks it is) Geezer reports on a recent survey demonstrating that people who described themselves as feeling "hostile" before getting hurt faced twice the risk of injury. The study, published in the Annals of Family Medicine, found that of injured patients in emergency rooms, 9 percent, 7 percent, and 4 percent reported feeling quite a bit; or extremely angry, and hostile, respectively, just before injury. Researchers concluded that odds ratios for risk of injury were notably higher for greater degrees of anger. Geezer is cool with that. He is unable to remember the last time he saw someone who was feeling totally groovy put his fist through a wall, so yeah, whatever. No point in getting angry about anger.