‘Bachelor' to offer medical advice

By Luaine Lee

Published: September 29, 2008

HOLLYWOOD — He's a doctor in real life AND he plays one on TV. That's Dr. Travis Stork, the emergency room doctor who set hearts aflutter as "The Bachelor.” This time the doctor is making house calls on the new daytime syndicated show "The Doctors.”

Stork and three other medical experts — a gynecologist, a plastic surgeon and a pediatrician — answer medical questions, study unusual real-life cases and dispense information about the medical field in this one-hour daily program (3 p.m. weekdays on KWTV-9).

"We're trying to give people the tools they need to live their best lives,” Stork, 36, said. "We're not trying in any way shape or form to replace people's individual physicians.”

Stork was born in Colorado but grew up in Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma, where his dad's job with the Ralston Purina Co. took him. Stork had finished college with a major in math and economics before he ever thought of being a doctor.

"I spent a lot of sleepless nights trying to figure out what the purpose of my life was. I didn't know, and knew I wanted to do something fulfilling that mattered, where I could use the mind that God gave me to do something meaningful. I was volunteering at a free clinic, also, seeing friends who were in the medical profession, and something clicked. ‘That's what I want to do. I want to be a doctor because I want to be challenged, but I also want to do something that's fulfilling.'”

Viewers can get into the act by submitting their medical questions online at www.thedoctorstv.com. Those who send video of their questions may appear on the show.

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