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LETTERS: Rhys H Thomas Careers advice: Paper is essential reading for the tall and beautiful BMJ 2007; 334: 58-b [Full text]

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Andrew Montgomery   (14 January 2007)

Lucky 14 January 2007
Andrew Montgomery, locum Auckland Send response to journal: Re: Lucky	As a short (1.5m) and grotesquely ugly 51 yo doctor I consider myself very lucky. Not only am I short and unattractive but was also a D+ entrant to medical school. I have a stable marriage, 4 children and a beautiful wife - 8 yo my junior. I have certainly made the observation that surgeons are tall and handsome. But there is a downside. The large income and dashing good looks make them easy prey for the wiles of young women seeking status and money. They have so much choice they don't know what to do with it - almost like film stars. Inevitably their marriages fail as their heads whizz round and round seeking the next repository for the product of their loins.Dominated by the Darwinian imperitave they are unfortunate victims of the very thing that makes them rich. For the very thing that makes them rich makes them poor. Not that I am jealous..... Competing interests: None declared