Doctors beware the biggest supermoon in living memory is set for November 14th
Moon will be the closest it's been to Earth since January 1948
A MONSTER supermoon will rule the skies on November 14th and you won't get to see anything like it for another 18 years.
The rare lunar occurrence will see our nearest astronomic neighbour lurch closer than it has since January 26, 1948 - and the news will put some hospitals on high alert.
A supermoon can appear up to 14 per cent bigger and 30 per cent brighter than a regular full moon.
The effect is most pronounced when the moon is viewed near the horizon.
There was a supermoon on October 16, and there will be another on December 14.
But November's will be the biggest and best of the lot.
And it could mean chaos and 'lunacy' for hospital workers in the ER.
Despite evidence to the contrary, some doctors and medical workers are convinced that full moons predict bedlam and an influx of patients who will suffer psychotic episodes, writes The Wall Street Journal.
In fact, many hospitals in the US beef up staff on those nights to prepare for extra craziness.
“Our bodies are 70 percent water, and because the moon moves the oceans, it moves the water in your bod - people flip out,” said Michelle Schusky, an X-ray technologist at Yale New Haven Hospital in Connecticut.
John Becher, MD, an ER doctor in New Jersey, told the WSJ that he is a firm believer in the phenomenon and doesn’t like to work a night shift during a full moon.