Studies find hospital workers carry germs on coats%2C ties%2C even shoes Up to 70%25 of physicians admit to never cleaning their ties Even disinfecting cellphones and pagers is recommended ...

Lab coats worn by medical professionals have pockets sized 8.5 inches high and 7.5 inches wide, which means the device can be easily carried by a physician.

“It’s the physician’s equivalent of a purse,” Talbott said. One study found that, for young doctors, the coat can wind up weighing about 4 1/2 pounds.

The NHS went so far as to advise that physicians bare all below the elbows. In 2009, the American Medical Association considered adopting a no-coat policy in the U.S. The proposal was scuttled.

The American Medical Association voted Tuesday on a resolution that would recommend hospitals ban doctors’ iconic white lab coats, citing evidence that the garment contributes to the spread of ...

In 2008, the National Health Services in the U.K. adopted a policy under which healthcare workers went “bare below the elbow,” opting not to wear lab coats and long sleeves in favor of scrubs.

Here are five things to know. 1. First-year residents have donned the short white lab coats after entering Johns Hopkins’ Osler Medical Training Program for generations.

In a new study, researchers found that people wearing lab coats were better at paying attention and performing tasks accurately than those not wearing the white jackets associated with medical ...