Whither the white coat and why

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As a philosophical coda to the 2013 cacophony over Obamacare, health care reform and the notion that doctors and their skills will be needed less in some indeterminate future, this last month saw a media frenzy about the fate of the doctor’s white coat.

It started with an article by Gonzalo Bearman and his colleagues in Infection Control and Epidemiology that asked the …

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