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The science of why magazines are always out of date in GPs waiting rooms (This is Hugh!)
telegraph.co.uk ^ | Dec. 12, 2014 | Sarah Knapton, Science Editor

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It is a curious phenomenon that magazines in doctor’s waiting rooms are always out of date.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For the magazines that get left behind are not only out of date, but also far more serious such as National Geographic or the Economist.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 ...


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Lead author Professor Bruce Arroll said: “General practice waiting rooms contain mainly old magazines.

This man is brilliant.

We need more studies like these, it's worth the gubmint money..

1 posted on 12/12/2014 8:55:40 PM PST by PROCON
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To: PROCON

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.


2 posted on 12/12/2014 8:58:05 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Have you hugged an illegal alien invader today?)
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To: PROCON

Not to nitpick but do you know what “hugh” means?


3 posted on 12/12/2014 9:00:42 PM PST by doc1019
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To: FlingWingFlyer

I cut the address labels of my NRA magazines and take them when I go.


4 posted on 12/12/2014 9:02:42 PM PST by Jet Jaguar (Resist in place.)
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To: doc1019

Are you series?


5 posted on 12/12/2014 9:02:46 PM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (It's a shame nobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care)
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To: doc1019

It’s series.


6 posted on 12/12/2014 9:03:24 PM PST by Jet Jaguar (Resist in place.)
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

LOL!


7 posted on 12/12/2014 9:03:40 PM PST by doc1019
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To: doc1019
Not to nitpick but do you know what “hugh” means?

Yes, I'm an aficionado in FReeper lore.

Please be series...just sayin..

8 posted on 12/12/2014 9:04:24 PM PST by PROCON (Always give 100%...unless you're donating blood.)
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"I cut the address labels of my NRA magazines and take them when I go."

My wife "disappears" mine without my asking, damn sure not giving them away!

9 posted on 12/12/2014 9:06:45 PM PST by doorgunner69
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To: PROCON

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).


10 posted on 12/12/2014 9:11:14 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: PROCON

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


11 posted on 12/12/2014 9:11:24 PM PST by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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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.

This is a bad thing?

12 posted on 12/12/2014 9:21:51 PM PST by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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To: PROCON

Do people actually touch the magazines in a waiting room?


13 posted on 12/12/2014 9:24:58 PM PST by Proud2BeRight
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To: PROCON

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...


14 posted on 12/12/2014 9:26:48 PM PST by DariusBane (Liberty and Risk. Flip sides of the same coin. So how much risk will YOU accept? Vive Deo et Vives)
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To: doc1019

“Call da AmberLamps.”


15 posted on 12/12/2014 9:29:51 PM PST by onedoug
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Do people actually touch the magazines in a waiting room?

I do...What?....is this bad?....Am I going to die?....Oh, no...The Huge Manatee....

16 posted on 12/12/2014 9:31:17 PM PST by PROCON (Always give 100%...unless you're donating blood.)
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To: onedoug

Yet, something else I’m apparently missing,.


17 posted on 12/12/2014 9:34:35 PM PST by doc1019
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To: PROCON

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???


18 posted on 12/12/2014 9:35:32 PM PST by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
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To: PROCON

Geez, anyone with common sense knows this....


19 posted on 12/12/2014 10:06:06 PM PST by freebilly (How about this-- we stop trying to elect the unelectable)
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To: Swordmaker

The most depressing thing is rummaging for something to alleviate boredom and finding out the only rags are six month old issues of Colonoscopy Week and Fungus Today. Thank God for smart phones!


20 posted on 12/12/2014 10:06:33 PM PST by bluejean (The lunatics are running the asylum)
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