NEW YORK, June 10 (UPI) -- Patients prefer doctors who wear white lab coats with name tags, not sneakers and jeans.
According to "On The Value of an Old Dress Code in the New Millenium" in the June issue of The Archives of Internal Medicine, studies indicate a more formal look projects professional competence and inspires trust among patients while a casual look -- wearing sandals, clogs, scrub suits or blue jeans -- is disapproved of by most patients.
"Dress, has its limits, but a neat and clean appearance is more important than attire ... There is no substitute for a gentle, concerned physician with an engaging, friendly, emphatic demeanor," Lawrence J. Brandt, chief of Gastroenterology at Montefiore Medical Center in New York City, said in a statement.
