New York State Wants To Dictate What Doctors Can Wear
From AMA Medical News:
New York physicians may have to take off their neckties, jewelry, wristwatches and long-sleeved white coats when caring for patients if a bill under consideration in the state legislature becomes law.
The bill, proposed in April in the state Senate, calls for a “hygienic dress code council” within the New York Health Dept. to consider advancing a ban on neckties and requiring physicians and other health professionals to adopt a “bare below the elbow” dress code in an effort to slash hospital-acquired infections.
Even though there’s no data that this does anything to reduce hospital acquired infections.
But that doesn’t matter.
So why stop there? I say, doctors should do the ultimate for their patients: the Full Monty.
*This blog post was originally published at Dr. Wes*
