The Independent Democratic Conference in the state Senate proposed a change in dress code yesterday, which would prohibit physicians from wearing ties, jewelry and loose-fitting clothing.
Sen. Jeff Klein (D-Bronx) said 80 percent of MRSA cases are caught in hospitals, mostly from physicians’ clothing, according to the report. Sen. Klein and other members of the Independent Democratic Conference want to establish a 25-person council comprised of medical exerts to develop specific dress codes for medical practitioners. A bill has been proposed to do this, but it does not yet have an Assembly sponsor.
Brian Conway, spokesperson for the Greater New York Hospital Association, said the bill is “impractical at best and probably impossible to enforce,” according to the report.
Read the Democrat and Chronicle report on physicians and neckties.
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