Friday, October 26, 2007

Hospital Romance May Largely Be Fiction

Is working in a hospital or doctor's office a prescription for passion?

If you believe the stories in the burgeoning and steamy genre of medical romance novels, the answer would be a resounding "yes."

But a psychiatrist writing in the correspondence section of the Oct. 27 issue of The Lancet did a study of these novels and claims the real world of medicine is a lot less torrid.

"The real ER is a lot less exciting, I regret to tell you," said Dr. Brendan Kelly, senior lecturer in psychiatry at University College Dublin in Ireland.

Entire article

For me, television drama or pocketbook novels is a mixture of fiction and reality. There would be a little twist or an added emotion in the story but more or less it happened in real life. Probably they took it from their own experience or from their surroundings :).

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