Analysis Of The Clothes Make The Doctor By Anna Reisman

The Clothes Make the Doctor, by Anna Reisman, shows how important it is to make a good first impression and with this includes your appearance. She starts her

article out with her own experience while she was trying to find a new primary-care doctor. She tells how she felt when this doctor first came in and what she noticed

most about her when they first started interacting. Unfortunately she didn't feel like she should have. She says "what I remember most was the feeling that she had somewhere more important to be, like a board meeting, where the discussion would involve the business of medicine..." (The Clothes That Make the Doctor, 2014). In the article, it shows that a primary-care practices are "...more about the relationship between doctor and patient, which ideally will last for years and years"( The Clothes That Make the Doctor, 2014 ). So when going in to meet a new doctor who you are going to trust with all your health issues, it is important to feel wanted and safe while speaking with them. A first
The author goes on to talk about how things are done when students are going through medical school they are asked to make a note of how their patients appear (The Clothes That Make the Doctor, 2014). She explains how things use to be in the past when doctors wore white lab coats and how nurses wore white dresses and hats. Unfortunately, things have changed a lot in health care in the last sixteen years and physicians and nurses are not as they use to appear. The author explains how everyone has a different opinion on what exactly a professional dresses like and comes to a point expressing how a doctor may dress more casual to not make a very obvious difference between patient and physician. That if one was more dressed casual a patient would feel less anxious and more willing to have an open