It is a common knowledge that hospital-acquired infections are more difficult to treat and morbidity is high. For this reason, we don't allow young children to enter the hospital unnecessarily. The practice of wearing white coats by doctors in the hospitals only adds to the problem of hospital infections. Doctors DO NOT change the coats daily and either they hang the coats in the hospital itself or take it home. When the doctors visit various patients with different infective conditions, are they not helping in propagating the infection?
When they take the coats home, are they not exposing the persons at home to the very same infections? In this connection, I am raising a fundamental question, whether it is prudent for the doctors to wear white coats at all? Whether we can do away with the ritual of wearing white coats once for all and do something else to differentiate the doctors? I…
