It's gonna be a hot time in the old town tonight!

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

Friday night AND a full moon- if you're an E.R. doctor or nurse, believe me, you have all my sympathy. You know it's gonna be a LOOOOONG night.

Personally, I'm locking the doors and staying home. You couldn't pay me enough to go out there on a night like this. I was just out there and all the crazies are already in full swing! :scared:

[graywarrior]

1. That's IT. No wonder my boss was a lunatic today!!

Stay safe P#6!!!!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. My dear Prisoner_Number_Six!

I'm with you!

Staying in tonight.......:scared:

Sooooo glad I'm no longer a moderator........Fridays could be treacherous!

:woohoo: :woohoo:

[MonkeyFunk]

3. nah

the full-moon/emergency room correlation isn't true.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=8924138


Emergency Department, MacNeal Hospital, Berwyn, IL 60402, USA.

To determine if there is any effect of the full moon on emergency department (ED) patient volume, ambulance runs, admissions, or admissions to a monitored unit, a retrospective analysis of the hospital electronic records of all patients seen in an ED during a 4-year period was conducted in an ED of a suburban community hospital. A full moon occurred 49 times during the study period. There were 150,999 patient visits to the ED during the study period, of which 34,649 patients arrived by ambulance. A total of 35,087 patients was admitted to the hospital and 11,278 patients were admitted to a monitored unit. No significant differences were found in total patient visits, ambulance runs, admissions to the hospital, or admissions to a monitored unit on days of the full moon. The occurrence of a full moon has no effect on ED patient volume, ambulance runs, admissions, or admissions to a monitored unit.

PMID: 8924138


People THINK it's true, so any busy night during a full moon is seen as "confirmation". But they're not busier than other nights.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

4. I have three sisters who have ALL spent time as ER nurses

My mom was a nurse, as was my aunt. They ALL talked about it. I trust them.

[MonkeyFunk]

5. So

even when the phenomenon is studied, and quantified, you just refuse to believe it?

It's a result of confirmation bias. If they know it's a full moon, anything out of the ordinary is attributed to it. But... out of the ordinary things happen EVERY day in a hospital.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

7. The map is not the territory.

You can also say "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy."

:shrug:

[haf216]

6. Full moon ,

so that's why the customers have all been crazy this week!