--- Fiona Selkirk <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> But.... "placebo effect of white coat on doctor"?
> Definitely not. There's
> a lot of research which suggests quite the opposite
> - raised BP, temperature
> (even before infection arising from transmission of
> bugs on said white coat
> twixt patients). Most in UK now don't wear on
> wards because it frightens the
> patients!
Indeed - It is probably worth noting that hypertensive
symptoms caused merely by the anxiety of seeing a
doctor is known of as "white coat hypertension":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_coat_hypertension
I know of no studies that have linked raised blood
pressure with being in the company of scientists.
Josh Nall
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