There are also claims that the white coat perpetuates the image of the doctor being paternalistic ... of The Feingold Center for Children, medical editor of WBZ-TV and WBZ radio, and president ...

Is there a more iconic symbol of the physician than the white coat? Think of America's ... over a generation -- and so has doctors' standing. The image of the doctor as omniscient and omnipotent ...

By Austin Frakt A majority of American doctors go more than a week before washing white coats. Seventeen percent go more than a month.Credit...Regis Duvignau/Reuters A recent study of patients at ...

With reports proving that germs can reside on scrubs, ties, stethoscopes, and white lab coats, some have said doctors should just ... essential to the physician's image in 20th-century America.