Do you still wear the white coats?

[pharmofhope]

I see in pharmacist pictures across the web. Or is it suit/shirt/tie etc.

The white coats are very cool.

[Nik]

Those pics are generally ones of suspiciously young and good looking doctors and pharmacists on sites where viagra is sold illegally. However I do know one locum who wears a white coat on top of smart dress.

[bleepholder]

i dont think the doctors even wear white coats...the latest fad is to wear theatre scrubs!! they do look comfortable and cuts down the price of dry cleaning, not to mention ironing shirts in batches of 5!!!

[Fleegle]

My opinion...

1) White coats, if worn, should be WHITE. They very often are not.

2) They create an unnecessary 'professional barrier' between the pharmacist and patient. A lawyer's pinstripe suit / client barrier is a similar example.

3) They make you look like you work in a bakery.

4) When your mates come in to your place of employment to say 'Hey' at lunchtime, you feel like a complete tit in your white coat.

5) I have never worn one, and never will.

A smart, plain-coloured business suit will suffice, male or female.

Fleeg.

[amanda harding]

I work for tesco, our pharmacist's have to wear the same uniform as all other managers around the store, but the pharmacy manager can wear whites, ours has just ordered hers, dont know what it looks like yet

[johnep]

I wore a white coat for as long as pouring out from stock bottles (early 80s). Since then always worn a suit. Have been shocked at the 'unsmart' casual torn jeans and jumpers I have seen on may pharmacists when arriving to relieve them.
johnep

[Fleegle]

Unfortunately have to agree with you there John. It's becoming increasingly more difficult to qualify pharmacy as a legitimate profession when some businesses are being controlled by guys who look like they fell off the back of a bin lorry.

Fleeg.