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It's a curious concept but the data doesn't stack up. I remember reading an article in the Medical Journal of Aust some years ago trying to correlate presentations to A&E with overdoses at the Mater Hospital in Newcastle with the lunar cycle. All overdoses in Newcastle were taken to the Mater (at that time. I don't know about now) so it was a good cross section of the entire city. There was no correlation with the lunar cycle.
I have worked in A & E and you will sometimes get comments like. 'It's a full moon and we have been quiet. This must be an aberation" I think we just tend to have selective memory about our busy nights and when they occur.
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