On the value of an old dress code in the new millennium

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 163, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1277-1281

  Brandt, Lawrence J ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRICULUM; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL STUDENT; NOTE; PHYSICIAN; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

ATTITUDE; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CLOTHING; HUMANS; PATIENTS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PHYSICIANS;

EID: 0037673093     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.163.11.1277     Document Type: Note

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