Doctors
IN PHOTO: Dr. Benjamin Warf (C) washes his hands before operating on the spine of four-year-old Emma Guarino to debulk an intraspinal lipoma and untether her spinal cord at Children's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts May 14, 2013. Guarino suffers from spina bifida, a developmental congenital disorder caused by the incomplete closing of the embryonic neural tube. Reuters

Many women still prefer their OB-Gynes to be females because check-ups would mean their private parts being examined. Not unless the obstetrician-gynecologist happens to be as handsome as Dr Manuel Rico.

Digital Journal reports that queues are always long at his clinic in Chile where he practices his specialisation at the university hospital in Concepcion. The 24-year-old medic, after all, is not just a brainer but also a looker since he was the Mr Spanish Beauty 2010.

In between modeling jobs, he completed a medical degree at the Cordoba University in Spain and returned to his native land in late 2013 to finish his gynecology internship.

Now tired of the limelight, the handsome doctor says, “The modelling I did was a great experience, but I don’t want to have any more to do with it now.”

His career path somewhat runs parallel with a Filipino cosmetic surgeon whose fame went beyond the campus beauty titles he held as well as the brief stint he had as an actor.

However, Dr Hayden Kho became embroiled in an Internet sex scandal with a starlet which even became the subject of a Senate investigation and resulted in his losing his medical licence.

However, after a few years, he regained his licence, resumed his practice, became a born-again Christian and is reportedly on the verge of making peace with the starlet.

Meanwhile, five buffed male Irish doctors and medical students took off their white physician’s coats and shirts when they did a pictorial for the 2015 Irish Doctor Calendar, which sells for $12.50 or 10 euro.

Proceeds of the sales went to Epilepsy Ireland, which gave buyers of the calendar a good and charitable reason for purchasing the beefcake half-naked photos of doctors posing with x-rays, pills and lab equipment.

Fran Marshall was the photographer for the calendar. He also does the yearly Irish Farmers Calendar that features men in agriculture posing with tractors and farm animals. The latter benefits the charity Bothar.

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