Male Nurses More Manly Than Other Men, Study Says

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The popular image of a nurse is young, white, single and female. Sometimes she's a sexless, humorless harpy (Nurse Ratched) and sometimes she's a sexy bimbo (Nurse Betty). But she's rarely a guy. If a man enters the nursing profession, he must be an effeminate, caring type, goes the stereotype. But male nursing students are in fact manlier than their male peers, according to a new study.

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