Halloween Scaries in Medicine Part 2
Medgeeks with Andrew Reid
Medgeeks
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🗓️ 31 October 2022
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
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| 0:00.0 | Are you worried about things that are going to go bump in the night? |
| 0:03.0 | Well, welcome back to our podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | This week, we're going to be talking again |
| 0:07.0 | about some scary stuff that happens in health care. |
| 0:10.0 | That's right, in medicine, we get exposed to a lot of scary things, but is it truly scary or are these actually medical conditions |
| 0:24.1 | masquerading around like goblins and ghouls? We talked a year ago as I mentioned in the last podcast about Vlad the Impaler who later became the inspiration for the story of vampires |
| 0:29.4 | we also talked about hyperchricosis and that became the story of werewolves. |
| 0:34.7 | But there are a lot of scary things that are also in medicine that fit right in this year |
| 0:39.6 | with the Halloween spirit. |
| 0:41.3 | Now many of you are wondering, well, should I be out there getting candy? |
| 0:44.4 | Well let me go ahead and burst one of your biggest myths and the myth is that |
| 0:48.9 | Halloween is only second to Christmas in candy sales. It turns out that this is actually a myth |
| 0:54.9 | so before you get ready for that massive sugar rush the fact is is that the |
| 0:59.8 | National Retail Foundation ranks Halloween as sixth among holiday sales leader. |
| 1:05.4 | The top five for candy actually are Christmas, Mother's Day, Valentine's Day, |
| 1:11.0 | Easter, and then Father's Day. |
| 1:13.6 | But despite Halloween somewhat low-ranking, Americans spend around $6 billion this year alone |
| 1:20.2 | on the holiday, which is an increase of about $10 per person over the last year. |
| 1:25.1 | According to a survey, this is actually the largest expense because it's naturally for |
| 1:28.8 | candy, followed by adult costumes, children's costumes, and of course believe it or not, the third most popular |
| 1:35.8 | expense pet costumes. |
| 1:38.0 | So stay tuned, ladies and gentlemen, and sit back while we talk about a lot of myths about things |
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