Probably because ER experience with a patient is too brief. The patient is admitted and dies later in hospital, or a patient is brought in who coded at home. Either way you never find out what he died of. Yours is one example why anecdotal experience can be profoundly misleading. https://twitter.com/ConsciousRNBSN/status/1109800473521999872 …
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Excellent science smackdown right here.


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As Mark Crislip says, "In my experience" is not a good basis for medical treatment.
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This is why anecdotes are not evidence. Would you believe I know ER Nurses, teachers and firefighters who all claim that the full moon is still their worst time of the month, statistics be damned?
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I believe because I know the same. It seems to be pretty benign belief, at least, compared to other science denial.
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