Push for doctors to wear name tags
Junior docs are reluctant to adopt the practice, but it helps patient communication, writes Dr Benjamin Bravery
Doctors at a Sydney hospital will be rewarded for wearing name badges with coffee vouchers, after a brief count found a “lowly 25%” were wearing them.
Patients find name badges useful, yet doctors are reluctant to adopt the practice, write registrar Dr Benjamin Bravery and colleagues, of Blacktown and Mount Druitt Hospital.
