GERIATRICIAN Dr Marc Budge is still recovering after being voted one of Britain's dishiest doctors.

Modest Dr Budge, 39, who works in Alzheimer's Research at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, described himself as 'a reluctant customer'.

But colleagues obviously think he could give ER star George Clooney a run for his money and he was picked out of a choice of 30 mouthwatering medics.

He was nominated for the dishy doctor award in a survey run by Hospital Doctor magazine which asked its readers for examples of 'basic raw hunk appeal'.

Dr Budge said: "Someone said they'd seen me in Hospital Doctor. I was a little surprised to be included and even more surprised because I didn't realise it had actually gone in. I didn't expect it to go anywhere."

And the 6ft tall Australian has no desire to lay claim to the label 'dishy'. "I don't know about dishy - other terms possibly." He declined to name the other terms.

He added: "This is going to be most amusing for my colleagues." A nursing colleague of Dr Budge's, who did not wish to be named, said: "He's just a very very nice man, very pleasant and gentle and good at his job.

"One nurse described him as having lovely sparkly eyes. That's what tipped the balance and apparently his accent was the deciding factor."

He was nominated by his two-year-old daughter Elliane. He is married to Lyn, who is not a nurse, and has two other children, Liam, seven, and Caitlin, six.

Overall winner of the competition was Dr Ahmed Chishti, from the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle upon Tyne, who was described as 'intensely sexy'.

Have you got a marvellous medic with luscious looks? Send nominations to the Oxford Mail, Osney Mead, Oxford, OX2 0AD.

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