'Grey's Anatomy' Helps Breed A New Generation Of Slutty Doctors
The idea that a hit TV series could affect the fashions of the times is hardly new, as anyone who has ever attended one of those Miami Vice-inspired sock-burning protests of the mid 1980s can attest. But current ABC ratings juggernaut Grey's Anatomy has added yet another wrinkle to the concept of primetime-influenced style, by transforming traditionally conservative hospital dresscodes into hotzones of skirt-hiking, five-o'clock-shadow-growing medical professionals hoping to score like their McHorny TV counterparts:
"Everyone watches 'Grey's Anatomy' and thinks that all doctors do at hospitals is have sex," said Dr. Ryan Stanton, resident in the department of emergency medicine at the University of Kentucky. [...]
In step with their media counterparts, upcoming medical students and residents are rebelling against the traditional Norman Rockwell white-coat doctor's image by wearing mini skirts, rumpled oxford shirts without ties, unshaven chops, high heels, and other things that may be considered medically inappropriate.
While the thought of a daily visit from a sexily dressed doctor might seem for most of us like a pleasant distraction from the turquoise-walled monotony of a hospital stay, the "Grey's Effect," as concerned health administrators have begun to refer to it, has already begun to creep past the realm of suggestive apparel. For example, several patients have registered complaints that their voiced intentions to seek out a second opinion were met with uncomfortably longwinded monologues from devastatingly thin residents, who begged them to forego further diagnoses and instead, "Pick me! Choose me! Love me."
