Desire and Deception: The Story Behind the Story

Once upon a time the hallowed halls of medicine were considered stuffy and staid, with occasional doses reinforcement of this image thrown in by Marcus Welby, MD. In the sixties, Sexy Ben Casey began to blow that image away and now we have an abundance of sexy and naughty fictional physicians and nurses with Gray’s Anatomy and House. Having been in higher education for close to two decades, I was always amused by the perception we professors who worked within the ivory tower were staid, pedantic, yes, dull, dull, dull as dirt. While admittedly, there are some who do fit that bill and have died on the job and just don’t know it yet, there are lots of professors who defy that stereotype. To read more go to http://sharonbuchbinder.com/blog/2011...