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Howard G. Smith, M.D. is a former radio medical editor and talk show host in the Boston Metro area. His "Medical Minute" of health and wellness news and commentary was a regular weekday feature on WBZ-AM, WRKO-AM, and WMRE-AM. His popular two-way talk show, Dr. Howard Smith OnCall, was regularly heard Sunday morning and middays on WBZ.

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Trained at Harvard Medical School and a long-time faculty member at Boston Children’s Hospital, he practiced Pediatric Otolaryngology for 40 years in Boston, Southern California, and in central Connecticut.  He is now based in New York City.

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Jan 22, 2020

 

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/I2f5U8Bykww

 

In a 2015 Harris poll, $ over 71% of parents thought tats were ok for pediatricians, 51% of millennials approved for any doctor, but only 35% of all adults felt comfortable with tattoos.  

 

In a Hawaiian study the same year, more than half of the respondents expressed less confidence in doctors with tats or piercings. 

 

 A 2018 study of more than 900 emergency room patients suggested that patient confidence was unaffected by tattoos.  

 

A November 2019 Medscape poll of doc, nurses, and pharmacists showed a 60% approval of tats.

 

What do you think?  To respond, comment on YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, TicToc, Facebook, or LinkedIn.  I’ll tabulate the results and let you know.

 

Harris poll: https://bit.ly/2Rwkst6

Hawaiian study: https://doi.org/10.1177/0009922815616889

Emergency Room study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29967212

Medscape: https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/923527

 

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