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On the Value of an Old Dress Code in the New Millennium
Arch Intern Med. 2003;163:1277-1281.
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INTRODUCTION
AS I WAS preparing to deliver my annual lecture to the second-year medical students, I looked out over the audience and realized that the attendees looked different from those in years past: there were a substantial number of women (compared with 5% in my class); some students were unkempt and slouched, reading nonmedical material (as opposed to the bolt-upright, fearful, and attentive position in my day); and none of the men was wearing a tie or white shirt (an integral part of the uniform of the serious student up to the 1970s). Obviously, these men and women were not aware of or chose to ignore Hippocrates' advice that the physician should "be clean in person, well-dressed, and anointed with sweet smelling unguents."1 I looked again at these differences and wondered, "Does it matter?" To answer this question, I reviewed the available literature in several electronic databases using search words such . . . [Full Text of this Article]
THE WHITE LABORATORY COAT
PHYSICIANS' ATTITUDES ON PROFESSIONAL ATTIRE
PATIENTS' ATTITUDES ON PROFESSIONAL ATTIRE: IT MATTERS
PATIENTS' ATTITUDES ON PROFESSIONAL ATTIRE: IT DOES NOT MATTER
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