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Here’s why, from one of our expert sources Dr. David Sherer
July is upon us so you might want to avoid the hospital if at all possible.

Why? On or around July 1, newly graduated interns, residents, nurses and other new health care workers first report to work at many of the nation’s hospitals, eager to start practicing medicine — on you.

No surprise then, that quality of care in hospitals plummets, and medical errors increase, during the following month.

In July, many hospitals are staffed by new, inexperienced doctors and nurses.

In the most recent study on the so-called “July Effect” — published earlier this year in the Journal of Neurosurgery:

Spine — Mayo Clinic researchers analyzed outcomes of 1 million spinal surgery patients admitted to 1,700 hospitals across the country during July over an eight-year period.

Roughly half got surgery at a teaching hospital with newly minted medical students, while the others were treated at nonteaching facilities.

Their conclusion: Patients at teaching hospitals fared only slightly worse — a “negligible effect,” wrote the researchers — on criteria such as in-hospital death rates and negative reactions to implanted devices.