Is that as good as it gets?
Some folks have good times, noodle salad....
Posted on 12/12/2014 8:55:38 PM PST by PROCON
It is a curious phenomenon that magazines in doctor’s waiting rooms are always out of date.
Now a study has discovered the reason. The more recent the publication, the more likely it is to be filched by light-fingered patients.
Researchers at the University of Auckland found that GP waiting rooms generally contain older magazines no matter how hard staff try to keep supplies up to date.
And patients hoping to find something light-hearted to take their mind off a tooth or tummy ache are also likely to be disappointed.
For the magazines that get left behind are not only out of date, but also far more serious such as National Geographic or the Economist.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Seriesly..., ver Hugh!]
Hugh who?
Industry mags are verboten in my office we don't want to scare patients with photos of rampant gingivitis or tertiary Yaws. Nor do they need to see the intermediate steps from bad mouth to finished product of a GREAT SMILE. They'd be out the door before the chair side assistant could say "hi!”
All your magazines are belong to us!
Seriously, go to a cancer treatment center and the mags are generally pretty good. The patients need them while they’re undergoing chemo and other treatments. It’s a simple way to make someone’s life happier. Believe me, any mag will be read and appreciated.
Obama would just use gov’t money to pay for it.
Is that as good as it gets?
Some folks have good times, noodle salad....
I thought they stocked little read publications like Time Magazine to cut down on theft.
If National Geographic was a serious publication, they wouldn’t cut and paste photos and they wouldn’t hype the global warming scare.
I sure as hell didn't bring them in. Some patient left them behind.
If you get an "urge" to read the Unitarian magazine, please don't.
It will depress the hell out of you.
Some real kooks.
Funny how NOBODY steals those.
all these old magazines are drumming up new patients for the practice. imagine the germ playgrounds on these pages.
Oddly, I’d never thought of that before.
However, I generally don’t worry about germs. Figure exposures are just exercise for my immune system.
Your policy is sound but your execution may be a bit over zealous
“Yet, something else I’m apparently missing.”
Yes! As seen in the post just above your 17 which is representative, but spelled the right way instead of the wrong way. The incorrect spelling of Huge ie Hugh is actually the right way if you are consistent with Freerepublic history regarding the misspelling. Actual pronounciation is another subject entirely.
Can’t supply a link to the original and it may be far enough back in history that it isn’t available, but someone knows more about it than I, and maybe they will comment.
I think I have this down correctly, and if not you can bet the farm that I will be taken to task before the clock strikes the next minute past the time of this post.
Hugh who?
I think you’ve got it.
How Hugh is it?
Doesn't explain why these weren't stolen when they were new.........unless they were returned after they became old.
That’s what my iPad is for. I don’t want to handle magazines grubbed by who knows what disease.
I think this contributed directly to the demise of printed liberal media. Conservatives had constant reminders of the betrayal to our nation by the left with every visit to a doctor, dentist or lawyer. You could see and recognize the trend of leftist propaganda with the aged editions of Time and other mindless gruberesque publications. Over time, you began to simply reject anything they stated for the leftist bias that infected every printed word. It’s nice to live in an era where such media outlets are treated with the disdain, disrespect and disregard that they have so well earned...
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