Friday, December 12, 2008

Lunar Lunacy

I never used to be superstitious before working in the ED, but now I know better.  Tonight's a full moon on a Friday night and, what's more, it will appear 14% larger and 30% brighter than any full moon this year.  That's almost enough to make me glad I'm stuck studying for a Saturday morning final.  Good luck to everyone working tonight.

3 comments:

Evil Transport Lady said...

Yeah I hate full moons! But oddly for me, it was quite a boring night:)

Nosce Te Ipsum said...

Funny, I think every ER in the world must have a thing about the full moon bringing out the crazies :)
Up here in Western Canada, my night was not TOO eventful, but all the psych beds were definitely full!

Second Shift said...

I'd love to be able to correlate patient data with dates of full moons and see how big the surge in psych patients actually is...