Injuries Contest: Tasteless Or Useful?

Dr. Mark Ebell was recently asked by the Georgia Health News to comment to about the online physician network website Sermo’s “Pro Football Injury Challenge,” where doctors where asked to guess how many concussions will occur in the NFL this season.

“They are making fun of a very serious and potentially life-altering injury,’’ said Ebell, an associate professor of epidemiology in the University of Georgia’s College of Public Health. “I found it appalling.”