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Should Doctors Wear White Coats?

  • May 13, 2004

This was the question asked of close to 500 people, including doctors, in a Royal Free Hospital, London survey. It seems that doctors tend to say no--they find their traditional white coats uncomfortable and a germ reservoir (they're harder to wash than scrubs), while patients still prefer them to be worn. More than twice as many patients as doctors felt that white coats should be worn. The most common reason given for this preference was that white coats made doctors easy to spot. Just 11...
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