Over 100 medical schools in the United States now have a WCC, and many students now consider it a rite of passage in the journey toward a healthcare career. Some schools also use this as a graduation from the entire program. According to some, WCCs have taken on a quasi-religious significance which symbolizes a "conversion" of a lay person into a member of the healthcare profession and is similar to a priest's ordination to the priesthood, although it is notable that the<unk> <unk>  is a recent adoption by the medical profession. However, in many medical schools around the world students begin wearing their<unk> <unk> s during first-year anatomy class, so there is no official<unk> . In the nineteenth century respect for the certainty of science was in stark contrast to the quackery and mysticism of nineteenth-century medicine. To emphasize the transition to the more scientific approach to modern medicine, physicians sought to represent themselves as scientists and began to wear the most recognizable symbol of the scientist - the<unk>  laboratory<unk> . This led to the more recent association of the<unk> <unk>  with medicine since its continued adoption.
White coat ceremony
Pickled punks
Coarse facial features
Palilalia
Echolalia
Asymmetric crying facies
Leonine facies
Latrodectism