Dr. Wendy Coates

You reached out right around the time of the blood moon that was receiving so much popular press attention here.

And every time there's something about the full moon, I kind of remember sort of nostalgically back to this study.

And then the next day I opened my email and you're like, hi, I'm Meryl.

Okay, so you have to picture a bunch of emergency physicians and emergency nurses working

sitting around, well, we don't really sit around, but, you know, like in passing or, you know, you're sitting down to do your charting and somebody says, get ready.

It's a full moon tonight.

What did they mean?

Oh, we're going to have all these terrible accidents or, you know, you just can't even imagine.

Here I am like a lowly intern and like all of these super experienced emergency department nurses and physicians are like,

gearing up for just like this intense night shift.

And so I was like, okay, well, this must be something.

It was pretty funny because we're like, hmm, it looks like there's no difference.

Oh, no difference.

And in fact...

Well, maybe there are fewer traumas and less severe traumas on the actual full moon days than the other days.

So maybe it's easier to drive on dark country roads where lots of motor vehicle accidents occur.

Maybe you're not quite as likely to go stab somebody because you'd be more visible to more eyewitnesses.

Nope.

No?

I never do because, you know, like, you don't want to be that person.