WELL, WOULD YOU???

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A while ago, a group of Italian doctors and nurses stripped down to their skivvies for a calendar in order to raise funds for, and generate public awareness of, the need for cancer research.

No Brad Pitts or George Clooney types. Just a lot of overly tight tighty whities and expanded bellies drooping precariously over boxer short elastic waists. The best picture from the article (Cancer Research in Boxers: Italian Doctors Strip to Reveal Funding Shortfalls - SPIEGEL ONLINE) is the two doctors studiously examining an MRI, while clad in their unmentionables. The nurses appear in the pictorials as well but their faces are not shown - just their backs as they sit in their bras and panties.

So the question is: Would you have appeared in the calendar for such a worthy cause? I'm sure our patients subscribe to the old adage," Turnabout is fair play."

Well, would you???

I would do it if they didn't show my stomach.

Still working on that 6 pack. Right now its just... A 1 pack.

Six pack? I assume you're male? If so, of course you're willing. Show me a guy who wouldn't agree to strip down to his undies with a bunch of nurses, and I'll show you a guy with a blood pressure reading of 000/00.

If I'm wrong and you're not male, NEVER MIND.

Six pack? I assume you're male? If so, of course you're willing. Show me a guy who wouldn't agree to strip down to his undies with a bunch of nurses, and I'll show you a guy with a blood pressure reading of 000/00.

If I'm wrong and you're not male, NEVER MIND.

Hahahaha! Nope! I'm a female. It was just a joke lol

Hahahaha! Nope! I'm a female. It was just a joke lol

I stand corrected!

I looked back at the photos; no one looks like they feel the least little bit awkward. It's all 'business as usual' at Ye Olde Medical Center.

Well said and entirely accurate. That's the point. With all parties sans pants, everyone's in the same boat, so-to-speak. No gloating. No lecherous, creepy doctors on the sidelines, fully dressed, watching the nurses and vice versa. No teasing in the future because everyone's in the same predicament. That's human nature.

Kinda reminds me of that story a while ago when Lindsay Lohan, feeling a little apprehensive about a topless scene, insisted that the male film crew strip to their boxers to make her feel at ease -- and they did!

---> Lindsay Lohan 'makes Liz and Dick crew strip before shooting topless scene' | Daily Mail Online

Nope. It would be too traumatic for the camera, the camera operator, the everyone you can think of. Nope. Nada. Unuh.

So, your decision is rooted in concern for others?

I'm stealing "lemming up" kthxbai.

"Lemming up." Never heard that one before, but it effectively paints a vivid picture!

Six pack? I assume you're male? If so, of course you're willing. Show me a guy who wouldn't agree to strip down to his undies with a bunch of nurses, and I'll show you a guy with a blood pressure reading of 000/00.

If I'm wrong and you're not male, NEVER MIND.

Yeeeeeaaaaaa, um, No.

I don't agree. I know lots of guys that would be more reluctant than the women, and it has nothing to do with how they look.

You can't paint all guys with the same brush any more than you can women.

Specializes in Acute Care Pediatrics.

I think I may actually cause the charity to lose money.

Yeeeeeaaaaaa, um, No.

I don't agree. I know lots of guys that would be more reluctant than the women, and it has nothing to do with how they look.

You can't paint all guys with the same brush any more than you can women.

Certainly, nothing is ever 100%, but I think we'll have to agree to disagree on this one. I think the average guy would jump at the chance.

As I said, just an opinion.

Specializes in MICU, SICU, CICU.

I'm in. Sounds like fun.

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