{"id":45,"date":"2007-10-29T23:23:16","date_gmt":"2007-10-29T23:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jha.in\/?p=41"},"modified":"2007-10-29T23:23:16","modified_gmt":"2007-10-29T23:23:16","slug":"in-case-you-were-unaware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jha.in\/?p=45","title":{"rendered":"In case you were unaware!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If romantic fiction is any guide, any doctor looking for love would be advised to be an emergency room surgeon or deliver babies rather than practise colon resection or remove in-grown toenails.<\/p>\n<p>So says Irish Psychiatrist Brendan Kelly, who has probed at length into the burgeoning literary field of medical romance.<\/p>\n<p>In an offbeat letter published in Saturday&#8217;s Lancet, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS0140673607616316\/fulltext\">Kelly describes the typical plot structure and characterization<\/a> ( the Lancet-reg required)<\/p>\n<p>As for the storyline, novelists skirted such hazards as malpractice suits for removing the wrong kidney or infection by a hospital superbug.(too hum drum?)<\/p>\n<p>Instead, they stuck to a tried-and-trusted formula of the doctor as a saviour in a white coat.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;\">How does he do it? Is he reading these books while patients pour out their woes?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If romantic fiction is any guide, any doctor looking for love would be advised to be an emergency room surgeon or deliver babies rather than practise colon resection or remove in-grown toenails. So says Irish Psychiatrist Brendan Kelly, who has probed at length into the burgeoning literary field of medical romance. In an offbeat letter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,1,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicine","category-uncategorized","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jha.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jha.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jha.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jha.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jha.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jha.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jha.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jha.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jha.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}