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Should doctors wear white coats?
1Department of Medical Oncology and Palliative Care, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, NSW. harnettpr@westgate.wh.usyd.edu.au
The Medical Journal of Australia
|May 11, 2001
Abstract:
The wearing of white coats by hospital doctors is becoming a rarity, making it difficult for patients to identify doctors from other hospital staff. I asked patients with cancer whether they thought that doctors, both junior and senior, should wear white coats. Only a minority disapproved.