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Editor’s Spotlight/Take 5: Physicians’ Attire Influences Patients’ Perceptions in the Urban Outpatient Orthopaedic Surgery Setting

Author: Seth S. Leopold, MD

Published in: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research® | Issue 9/2016

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The idea that doctors should maintain a professional appearance is not new. Some 2300 years ago, Hippocrates suggested that a physician “must have a clean appearance, and wear good clothes, using a sweet-smelling scent, which should be a totally unsuspicious perfume. This is pleasant when visiting the sick” [4]. …

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Title: Editor’s Spotlight/Take 5: Physicians’ Attire Influences Patients’ Perceptions in the Urban Outpatient Orthopaedic Surgery Setting
Author: Seth S. Leopold, MD
Publication date: 01-09-2016
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research® / Issue 9/2016
Print ISSN: 0009-921X
Electronic ISSN: 1528-1132
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11999-016-4938-5

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