Healthcare workers are a superstitious lot. Mention that it’s “quiet” in an emergency room, and someone will warn that you’ve just cursed the shift. Full moons are said to bring out the strangest cases.
At Louisiana’s 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, counselor Sherrard Crespo had her own belief: when hot summer nights settle over the state, the phones start ringing.
“You definitely remember things about when the weather gets awful, that the calls increase,” Crespo said. “It’s not just kind of my inner thoughts. You are reacting to something external.”
Unlike many hospital superstitions, this one is backed by evidence…