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Bedside Rounds

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The History of the White Coat

In 19 93, the first white coat ceremony was held in which first year medical students are ceremonially cloaked in their short white coats. It is no coincidence that this period saw the white coat start to metasticize out of the operating room. The association with science, cleanliness and purity of the color white was too powerful to pass up. By the 19 thirties, you pretty much have the white coat as it is currently used to day, but mostly on physicians working in a hospital. Doctors in private practice largely continue to wear professional street clothes,. Surgeons switched to light blue or light green colored scrubs as the glare from new electric lights on white cloth made operating too difficult.

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