Reading OK! magazine would make anyone depressed, such is its
frivolous content. But it is a mistake to assume that what hairdressers
or
doctors or dentists, come to that, may think is suitable reading for those
in
the waiting room is really what interests people, and the fact that they
actually may read it doesn't mean they're incapable of understanding
anything
more important.

You surely don't think the doctors, dentists and hairdressers actually
_decide_ which magazines they have in their waiting rooms? IMO the reason
for the reading material you find in such places is that previous
patients/customers have already pinched all the ones worth reading. I have
been experimenting by leaving my used magazines in the local surgery (which
they always welcome with great enthusiasm), and it is very interesting to
see how few are left there next time I am in there. And my dentist's has
aviation magazines, golf magazines, country life and birding magazines,
reflecting the interests of the partners, as well as the more usual tattered
women' magazines and gossip rags like OK! and Hello!

Anne