Abstract
The attitudes of first- and second-year medical students toward reports and photographs of attractive and unattractive patients were examined. Medical students were given 8 hypothetical reports of illness by college students, with accompanying photographic identification cards. The photographs varied in attractiveness, as rated by an independent group of adult judges. Medical students had to rank the eight reports of illness in the order in which they would see the patients in a student health clinic. The results suggested that the patients' attractiveness had no significant effect on medical students' order for seeing patients. Factors contributing to these findings were discussed.
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