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Good article from Slate

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Posted 1:33pm June 23rd, 2009 by Davelcorp

Why do doctors wear white lab coats?  Because they say "science".

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Thanks for posting this Dave

On 5:54am June 24th, 2009 chrisk said:

Kind of amazing that the AMA wants to do away with the lab coats.  Seems it took concern over the lab coats' role in spreading infection to make the shift, but hey, whatever works.

Another interesting tidbit is that while only 26 percent of doctors think they should wear lab coats, 56 percent of patients do.  That illustrates how conditioned the public has been to expect that over the years.  The AMA in the past really hammered that in. It will take a while for people to be de-conditioned.

Glad to hear the AMA is

On 4:18pm June 25th, 2009 Whitsitt said:

Glad to hear the AMA is finally ready to do away with lab coats.  I recall a similar issue with ties in my school's clinic.  Even though ties have shown to be a route of spreading infections, we still had to wear them.  Conversly, even though swabbing points does nothing to prevent infection, we also had to do that.  Some folks sure do cling to their illusions, eh?