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The Magic White Coat
- Richard G. Druss, MD
- Columbia P&S; New York, NY 10128 Requests for Reprints: Richard G. Druss, MD, Columbia P&S, 180 East End Avenue, New York, NY 10128.
The wintry wind blows cold off the Hudson River at 168th and Broadway. Yet the medical students I see each morning at 8:00, scurrying from one building to the next at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, are without benefit of coat, hat, and gloves; they wear just their white coats. They are young and perhaps don't feel the weather so sharply. They might say that they can't be bothered by bulky clothes as they attend to their many patients. They might also say the tunnels that connect the disparate hospitals …
