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Why women find docs so irresistible...
ANI via Times of India ^
| 27 Oct 2007, 1553 hrs IST
| ANI
Posted on 10/27/2007 11:27:00 AM PDT by CarrotAndStick
LONDON: A study has found a scientific explanation for why people find doctors and nurses sexy.
The study conducted by Dr Brendan Kelly, of University College Dublin found that people get attracted to GPs, nurses and surgeons because they expect them to be more caring than the average professional.
The study was carried out after researching medical romance stories to see what got readers so hot under the collar.
In the study, at random 20 novels were selected with a medical theme and the recurrence of brilliant, tall, muscular, male doctors with chiseled features, working in emergency medicine was noticed.
"These novels suggest there is an urgent need to include instruction in the arts of romance in training programmes for doctors and nurses who intend working in these settings, the Sun quoted him, as saying in a tongue in cheek manner.
"It gives a good insight into how people think medicine should be. If you were to take these novels literally, one would think uncontrolled passion is an inevitable consequence of working in the emergency room, he said.
"Perhaps it would be useful for doctors to look at some of these novels although young doctors might believe this is how medicine is and sadly its not, he added.
The study is published in journal The Lancet.
TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: attraction; doctors; family; psychology
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To: CarrotAndStick
Darn... hasn't been my experience... I guess the features aren't "chiseled" enough... I'll have to cut back on the peanuts.
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posted on
10/27/2007 11:29:34 AM PDT
by
ER Doc
To: CarrotAndStick
It couldn’t possibly be the future paychecks.
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posted on
10/27/2007 11:31:03 AM PDT
by
Larry Lucido
(Hunter 2008)
To: CarrotAndStick
people find ...nurses sexy.No offense to nurses, but I have an aversion to medical personnel and institutions of all kinds. Nothing sexy about needles, blood, bedpans, and infectious disease.
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posted on
10/27/2007 11:32:05 AM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
("A person's a person no matter how small." -Dr. Seuss)
To: Larry Lucido
I was told really hot chicks were into electrical engineers, so I a became one.
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posted on
10/27/2007 11:32:38 AM PDT
by
Perdogg
(Join the NCAA basketball thread - Freemail me - Go tarheels!)
To: Perdogg
You became a hot chick or an electrical engineer? :-)
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posted on
10/27/2007 11:33:22 AM PDT
by
Larry Lucido
(Hunter 2008)
To: CarrotAndStick; MotleyGirl70; Cagey; Mr. Brightside; Gamecock; Rb ver. 2.0
Elaine: Mono? Huh, well, if anyone needs any medical advise, Elaine met a doctor. And he’s unattached.
Jerry: I thought the whole dream of dating a doctor was debunked.
Elaine: No, it’s not debunked, it’s totally bunk.
Jerry: Isn’t bunk bad? Like, that’s a lot of bunk.
George: No something is bunk and then you debunk it.
Jerry: What?
Elaine: Huh?
George: I think.
Elaine: Look it, I’m dating a doctor and I like it. Let’s just move on.
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posted on
10/27/2007 11:34:35 AM PDT
by
Larry Lucido
(Hunter 2008)
To: Larry Lucido
Sorry about the dangling modifier. EE of course.
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posted on
10/27/2007 11:35:16 AM PDT
by
Perdogg
(Join the NCAA basketball thread - Freemail me - Go tarheels!)
To: CarrotAndStick
To: CarrotAndStick
oh, they are talking about real doctors & nurses...not role playing...
To: ER Doc
brilliant, tall, muscular, male doctors with chiseled features, working in emergency medicine was noticed.
Well, that describes me to a T.....
Time for my Haldol....
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posted on
10/27/2007 11:36:37 AM PDT
by
Kozak
(Anti Shahada: There is no god named Allah, and Muhammed is a false prophet)
To: Perdogg
Dang, dude. LOL.
Two experiences - one day years ago, a girl walked into my office for an interview - I was a mess. Knocked the phone off the desk, tripped over something, you name it.
She is now the lead singer in a famous band.
The other was the only EE girl I ever knew...she was popular, as you might imagine.
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posted on
10/27/2007 11:37:15 AM PDT
by
patton
(cuiquam in sua arte credendum)
To: patton
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posted on
10/27/2007 11:39:56 AM PDT
by
Perdogg
(Join the NCAA basketball thread - Freemail me - Go tarheels!)
To: CarrotAndStick
The fact that they also make about $200,000 + per year is never noticed by the women.
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posted on
10/27/2007 11:40:58 AM PDT
by
Citizen Tom Paine
(Swift as the wind; Calmly majestic as a forest; Steady as the mountains.)
To: Citizen Tom Paine
The fact that they also make about $200,000 + per year is never noticed by the women. I'm sure that money has nothing to do with it.
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posted on
10/27/2007 11:43:31 AM PDT
by
SIDENET
(Hubba Hubba...)
Lets see I imagine good looking people end up getting better paying jobs and marring better looking spouses. Those better looking couples have better looking children which go off to medical school which the parents can afford. Those medical students become the doctors that women romance about.
To: Perdogg
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posted on
10/27/2007 11:44:08 AM PDT
by
patton
(cuiquam in sua arte credendum)
To: Jeff Chandler
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posted on
10/27/2007 11:44:18 AM PDT
by
darkangel82
(And the band played on....)
To: CarrotAndStick
I’m sure it has NOTHING AT ALL to do with the money they make. /sarc
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posted on
10/27/2007 11:44:18 AM PDT
by
lesser_satan
(READ MY LIPS: NO NEW RINOS | FRED THOMPSON '08)
To: CarrotAndStick
Hmmm ... a woman dressed in white, through the haze of (legal) clinical morphine, is an angel that asks if she can caress my naked (under the johnnie) body and call it a bath?
I'm there, darlin' ... I'm there!
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posted on
10/27/2007 11:44:29 AM PDT
by
knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
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