Re: Put your ties back on: scruffy doctors damage our reputation and indicate a decline in hygiene
I consider a doctor as someone who earned a degree and who executes a profession. There is no specific dress code needed, especially ties, and long sleeves impede our work and good hygienic practices.
In order to identify someone as a doctor, I propose the following:
Wear a badge with your name and photo
Introduce yourself at a first contact
Behave yourself correctly as a physician: respectful, patient, professional.
I remember colleagues who where very formally dressed, but did not behave in any way as doctors (and some were even drunk, very rude, smoking in the face of patients)
First the correct professional behavior, as to clothing, it is everybody's choice
PS what would we like to impose on our female colleagues?
Competing interests:
The fact of never having to buy ties, perhaps
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Re: Put your ties back on: scruffy doctors damage our reputation and indicate a decline in hygiene
I consider a doctor as someone who earned a degree and who executes a profession. There is no specific dress code needed, especially ties, and long sleeves impede our work and good hygienic practices.
In order to identify someone as a doctor, I propose the following:
Wear a badge with your name and photo
Introduce yourself at a first contact
Behave yourself correctly as a physician: respectful, patient, professional.
I remember colleagues who where very formally dressed, but did not behave in any way as doctors (and some were even drunk, very rude, smoking in the face of patients)
First the correct professional behavior, as to clothing, it is everybody's choice
PS what would we like to impose on our female colleagues?
Competing interests: The fact of never having to buy ties, perhaps