Have you wondered?

[Nacchinarkiniyan]

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For some reason, every doctor's, dentist's, or lawyer's office I am ever in only has magazines more than four months old.

Where do the magazines go when they first arrive? Is there a publication purgatory that they are required to inhabit until their information is no longer timely?

A quote from a novel which I am reading now.
Have you not wondered? I have.

 

[kunjuppu]

dear N,

the one exception is my dentist. he has the latest and the previous 4 issues of time, economist, national geographic and a few canadian magazines. always a delight to wait...

the doctor's office is part of a hospital and survives on donated magazines. hospitals are always short of money for such stuff here in toronto.

 

[biswa]

In my experience, (in the US), the doctors/clinics nowadays save money by not having clinic magazine subscriptions. Instead, the doctors/staff themselves may have their own personal subscriptions which after reading, they deposit in the clinic waiting rooms. You can see that they have cut out the name/address label on the front page.

That explains why the magazines are a bit old. In fact I may have also "donated" a magazine or two in this manner.

 

[Raji Ram]

If the latest issues of magazines are kept in Sing Chennai, some patient might 'chuttufy' that!

 

[auh]

..., some patient might 'chuttufy' that!

...in kumutti or oil?

 

[Raji Ram]

...in kumutti or oil?

'chuttufy' has a totally different meaning in Sing Chennai senthamizh!!

Needs no kumutti or oil!