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12-13-2004, 07:10 PM
Study: Christmas is deadliest day of the year (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6706981/)
Christmas is the deadliest day of the year for Americans with 12.4 percent more deaths than normal, researchers said on Monday.
More Americans die from heart attacks and other natural causes on Christmas, the day after and on New Year's Day than on any other days of the year, the researchers reported.
It is probably because people are feeling too busy or too festive to go to the hospital over the winter holiday season, the researchers wrote in Monday's issue of the journal Circulation.
Another reason given is that the quality of hospital care is worse during the holiday season due to "staff changes, which I interpret as all the good doctors and nurses are home celebrating the holidays with their families.
So, obviously, we need to do away with Christmas.
Christmas is the deadliest day of the year for Americans with 12.4 percent more deaths than normal, researchers said on Monday.
More Americans die from heart attacks and other natural causes on Christmas, the day after and on New Year's Day than on any other days of the year, the researchers reported.
It is probably because people are feeling too busy or too festive to go to the hospital over the winter holiday season, the researchers wrote in Monday's issue of the journal Circulation.
Another reason given is that the quality of hospital care is worse during the holiday season due to "staff changes, which I interpret as all the good doctors and nurses are home celebrating the holidays with their families.
So, obviously, we need to do away with Christmas.