Headline : How the holidays could be affecting your medical care

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It's the holiday season, a time for family, festivities — and shoddy medical practices?!

Okay, so maybe that's a bit alarmist. But a new, holiday-related study has us thinking about how doctors are humans with cognitive biases, quirks, and flaws like the rest of us — and how the holidays may be a time we should be a bit more conscious of this than usual.

The holiday the researchers focus on is not Christmas or Hanukkah. It's Halloween. Specifically, the study looks at whether doctors are more likely to diagnose kids with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) when they see them on October 31st. But, still, there are lessons from this study that can apply to any holiday, or really, any day in general.

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