BMJ Group Aug 13 2025 Patients are still more likely to trust doctors and consider them more professional when they wear white coats, although women doctors in this attire are often misidentified as nurses or medical assistants, finds a review of the available research on the topic, published in the open access journal  BMJ Open. But patient preferences for doctors' attire seem to be strongly influenced by clinical context and medical specialty, with a growing acceptance of scrubs, especially