Very Superstitious!

Like many professionals, I have found that my partners and I are very superstitious. While there's no research to back it up, we'll all swear up and down that there are more sick babies born on the full moon than any other time. In fact, I've been put in charge of reporting on the moon phase at our weekly business meetings. We all have our rituals and hangups. For example, Dr. Smith who curiously is a man of very strong Christian Faith but who also is particularly superstitious gets very upset if someone insinuates that things are "quiet" going into his call night. Furthermore, he doesn't allow anyone to watch while he is performing a procedure such as an arterial line. He and I have a thing where when one of us is coming in and the other one is leaving, the one leaving will say something like "Well, I know you're going to have a particularly horrible evening!". It's sort of an "undoing" type of thing. I repeatedly postulate my theory that bad diagnoses come in groups of 3. So if we have 2 babies in the unit with a certain type of bad congenital defect, I know that the third one will be born in the near future. Certain members of the practice have "black clouds" and some have "white clouds", sometimes we joke about passing our "bad mojo" from ourselves to another partner, sometimes the staff groans when they find out that one of us with a "black cloud" is on call.
All in all, I think that on some level most people are "very superstitious"!