Today, the waiting room magazines often include readable, non-political, middle-of-the- road publications. Some medical offices even have a few magazines in those lonely little rooms where you take off your clothes and await your turn with your favorite healer. However, there are still examination rooms where you cool your heels with nothing to read but wall posters showing gruesome and frightening drawings of human innards. But take heart. A new era has dawned in which patients are no longer dependent on or threatened by the tedious, preachy and germy magazines in the waiting room. These days, when visiting the doctor places, many of us take along our own electronic book readers, from which we can read the book or magazine of our choice. And now I have acquired one of those so-called "smart phones." They call them that because the phones are smarter than we are/Bill Hall, Lewiston Tribune. More here.

Question: Does your doctor's/dentist's office have decent reading material?