Why are attractive women as rare as dodo birds in emergency rooms?
After a decade of ER work, I can recall having had less than a dozen attractive female patients. Considering the countless thousands of patients that I’ve served, this fact is truly amazing and deserving of formal study. A considerable amount of money is spent every year on the research and prevention of accidents, yet I’ve never seen anyone look into the reasons why attractive women seem to be virtually immune to diseases and accidents that might cause them to need emergency medical treatment. There’s recently been a lot of hullabaloo in the press about the link between beauty and genetic superiority. The upshot of this research is that beauty is, if nothing else, a marker for good genes that confer a host of desirable traits, not just skin-deep beauty. If this theory is indeed true, then it may offer a partial explanation for my empirical observation that attractive women rarely need treatment in an ER. There are certainly more mundane explanations, but they alone cannot explain this
