This man is brilliant.
We need more studies like these, it's worth the gubmint money..
I spend most of my time trying to figure out which office staff member’s mailing label was cut out of the cover of each magazine. Match the magazine with the staff member. Pretty cool game.
Not to nitpick but do you know what “hugh” means?
I don’t care what the date is, just something besides Home & Gardens, Women’s Health, or Sports Illustrated would be fine (the swimsuit issue is OK, but good luck finding one).
We should convince the Daily beast that since they are “internet only” they should supply tablets on their tab to waiting rooms loaded with their internet magazines....
My goal is to bankrupt them, heheheh
This is a bad thing?
Do people actually touch the magazines in a waiting room?
When in a doctors waiting room I won’t touch anything that other patients have handled. They are here, the patients, because the are SICK!
I wont touch anything and wash my hands as soon as I leave plus sanitize the bottom of my shoes. Burn any shoe laces that drag.
I know. I have issues...
Dang. I coulda saved him all of that study. I saw our premium mags like National Geographic walk out the door as soon as they arrive. Same with American Rifleman, Smithsonian, etc. . . but old copies of People seem to multiply like rabbits in the corner, appearing from nowhere, always with the labels cut off. Magazine elfs? Our office opened in its current location in 1990. . . but the other day I found some People Magazines from 1983. What the heck???
Geez, anyone with common sense knows this....
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.
I thought they stocked little read publications like Time Magazine to cut down on theft.
all these old magazines are drumming up new patients for the practice. imagine the germ playgrounds on these pages.
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...
Not only Hugh! but also Series!!
This is dumb, and it’s not science.
If the more recent ones are “filched” then they are not there to become the older ones.
This author doesn’t explain the crap on the tv in the office. Either some CNN health channel with constant ads for medications or some version of divorce court. I’d like to see Velocity channel playing just once.
The reading material in my practice’s lobby (not “waiting room”) is lousy. We usually don’t keep our clients out there long enough to need it.