Children's Nomenclatural Adventurism and Medical Evaluation study - PubMed
Our data confirm the impression that children with certain categories of first names have an increased likelihood of admission to hospital after presenting to the ED. We speculate that our findings, which are in concordance with those from educational and psychological literature, may reflect...
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I've been attacked before for suggesting that names might actually say something about the person. (Common factor: the parents.) Well, turns out someone noticed that in a medical context 15 years ago.
Named after a popular culture figure: 1.91 risk ratio vs average for hospital admission. In other words, almost twice as likely to end up in the hospital.