{"id":298774,"date":"2026-02-15T03:37:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T03:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/298774\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T03:37:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T03:37:19","slug":"hospitals-are-hotbeds-of-romance-what-irish-psychiatrist-learned-from-reading-20-medical-romance-novels-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/298774\/","title":{"rendered":"Hospitals\u00a0are hotbeds of romance \u2013\u00a0what Irish psychiatrist learned from reading 20 medical romance novels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Brendan Kelly, professor of psychiatry at Trinity College Dublin, carried out a study of medical romance novels\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1771126639_585_ih Brendan Kelly.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Brendan Kelly, professor of psychiatry at Trinity College Dublin, carried out a study of medical romance novels<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Whether it is lingering glances from behind surgical masks or the quickened heartbeat of a doctor in love, hospitals can be \u201cwhirlpools of passion\u201d, according to a study of medical romantic novels undertaken by Dublin psychiatrist Brendan Kelly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The Professor of Psychiatry at Trinity College and consultant at Tallaght Hospital embarked on a project of reading 20 romance novels in medical settings and found even an emergency department can be fertile ground for affairs of the heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brendan Kelly, professor of psychiatry at Trinity College Dublin, carried out a study of medical romance novels Whether&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,15120],"class_list":{"0":"post-298774","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-trinity-college-dublin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}