He's Not Your Typical Vanderbilt Bachelor
Ellen Tremaine
Issue date: 2/1/06 Section: features
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"The Bachelor: Paris," a reality TV-show featured in February on ABC, starred a Vandy Boy: Dr. Travis Stork, an Emergency Room M.D. at the Vanderbilt Medical Center. Some students have been fortunate enough to meet the dashingly good-looking Doc. Sophomore Julia Laughlin met The Bachelor, before he skyrocketed to reality-TV fame. Laughlin contracted an abnormally high fever last spring and landed in the Vanderbilt Medical Center's E.R., where Dr. Stork nursed her back to health. "He introduced himself as 'Travis', and I remember thinking, 'Wow, he is incredibly good looking,'" says Laughlin. Stork was friendly and comforting, as well. "I hadn't had anything to eat in days because I had felt so sick. Travis said, 'Hang on,' and he returned with a sandwich he had made for me!" Even Laughlin's boyfriend picked up on Dr. Stork's charming appeal. "[My boyfriend] kept joking with me, saying, 'Stop flirting with Dr. Fabio!'" Laughlin laughs. "I think he was afraid that I was falling for Dr. Stork instead!" With his strikingly good looks and friendly demeanor, only one question remains: Why did The Bachelor need to travel all the way to Paris to find a fiancé?