Is July the worst month to get sick? It may be because that's when medical school is starting and that's when lots of inexperienced medical students will be interning at hospitals.

Newsweek takes a look at this myth to see if there's any truth to it in this three-page report. While it is not conclusive, the doctors questioned in the report do admit to more mistakes being made.

An excerpt,

Bhattacharya and others believe that the mistakes newbie doctors make by and large involve unnecessary tests and longer hospital stays, errors that aren't typically life threatening. "But a lot of times, those kinds of things do snowball," he says. Bhattacharya says he "wouldn't paint an alarmist picture about it, but it's worth knowing."

Read the rest here.