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Magic Medicine, Bruce St. Amour, William B. Dehart
Magic Medicine, Bruce St. Amour, William B. Dehart
HCA Healthcare Journal of Medicine
Background
A superstition is a belief or practice that is considered irrational, resulting from ignorance, fear of the unknown, trust in magic or chance or a false conception of causation. In medical settings superstitions often arise from attempts to assign causation to events that are either random, or in which all information is not available. In this manuscript, we present a descriptive review of the literature related to superstition in medicine and present the results of our own data; that one’s age is equal to the chance of being admitted from the emergency department.
Methods
In the descriptive review of …