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    Does medical tradition dictate that doctors wear white coats?

    Question #69232. Asked by islandlad. (Aug 03 06 9:23 AM)


    Gnomon

    		Hospital tradition dictates that all workers wear white uniforms, whether they're doctors or nurses, so that you can see that they are clean. In recent years, surgery theatre staff changed to green, as it acts as a contrast to the red of blood.

    Normal doctors receiving patients in a private practice do not wear white coats.

    Aug 03 06, 9:30 AM
    bloomsby

    		I like the reference to 'normal doctors'. :)



    Aug 03 06, 1:07 PM
    lanfranco

    		Mine wears one. I've been worried that there was something a little "off" about him.

    Aug 03 06, 1:19 PM
    Gnomon

    		Sorry about the "normal" reference. I was going to say "GPs" but I didn't know whether that term is understood in the United States.

    Aug 04 06, 2:21 AM
    lanfranco

    		It is.

    Aug 04 06, 8:50 AM

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