STOP THE PRESSES! Ground-breaking research! People are dishonest!

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When waiting for the receptionist to call your name in the doctor's office, you are powerless.

You can't go anywhere. You don't know how long it will take. There isn't much to do.

...

Most of the magazines are crappy and old.

Why? After all, your doctor and the rest of the people working in the office are smart and presumably just as interested in good reading material as you are. So what's up with the subpar selection?

Researchers wanted to know too. And they've answered the question in a study published in the Dec. 11 issue of the BMJ — the medical journal's light-hearted "Christmas issue," which uses science to tackle important and underaddressed questions like "seriously, are men really idiots?"

In theory, the lack-of-certain magazines problem could be the fault of doctors not buying them or patients stealing them.

To test what happens to current magazines in an office, Bruce Arroll, a doctor and professor at the University of Auckland in New Zealand (apparently this is a global problem) gathered up 87 new and old magazines (a number determined by "how many magazines the investigators could rustle up from family and friends") covering a variety of topics and placed them in the waiting room of his practice.

It turns out that if there are current magazines around, people steal them.

http://www.businessinsider.com/why-does-the-doctor-only-have-old-magazines-2014-12


Arrrgggggghhhhhhh, we're all pirates!

Pirates steal; it's what they do!

Watch out for your shoes...

 

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But it turns out some magazines are stolen even more frequently than current ones. What the researchers termed "gossipy" magazines, which they didn't name but defined as having at least five celebrities on the cover (with 10 celebrities, they earned the term "most gossipy"), were stolen most of all.

Patients took 26 of the 27 "gossipy" and "most gossipy" magazines.

They also took National Geographic, BBC History, and the Australian Women's Weekly, just less frequently.

No one stole any of the four Time magazines or 15 Economist issues.

Ah-ha ha ha ha ha...

 

[Que]

I have lingered in a Doctors office to finish an article after my appointment. I Have on rare occasions pilfered a magazine. The fact that they were old was one reason I rationalized it.

I wanted to visit to talk to management of a bar in a college town about some fabricating. It was a student break, I anticipated the bar would be lifeless. I took a book. The huge place is in the style of an Irish bar on that end, and the shelves are lined with decorative, mostly junk books. I spotted a really entertaining book on grammar. I committed the sin of coveting, so I figured in for a farthing, in for a pound.

 

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I bring my own reading material.

Sick people handle those things. Sick people with germs...



The Economist is probably safe though. Most people won't touch it with a ten-foot pole.

 

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[Ishmael]

http://www.businessinsider.com/why-does-the-doctor-only-have-old-magazines-2014-12


Arrrgggggghhhhhhh, we're all pirates!

Pirates steal; it's what they do!

Watch out for your shoes...

Why is old 'Time' magazines such a common fixture?

BTW, I have one office that I go to that is populated with an excellent selection of the NRA's publications.

Ishmael

 

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I wonder how safe the magazines are in that office...

 

[Ishmael]

I wonder how safe the magazines are in that office...

Biometric safeties perhaps?

Ishmael

 

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*chuckle*


Are there stuffed heads on the wall?

Does it keep out the entitled deadbeats?

 

[Que]

Why is old 'Time' magazines such a common fixture?

BTW, I have one office that I go to that is populated with an excellent selection of the NRA's publications.

Ishmael

Because no one wants to steal them.

 

[Ishmael]

Because no one wants to steal them.

*chuckle* I picked up an old 'Time' today and thumbed through it. There was like 20 pages of content and 30 pages of full page drug adds, some were two full pages. Goes to show how well the advertisers know 'Time's' demographic.

Ishmael