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Warren, MI

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White Coat Syndrome

Let’s Talk About White Coat Syndrome – For Real This Time

We recently posted an article on our Facebook page from themuse.com entitled 10 Reasons You Should Go To The Doctor (Even When You’re Healthy).  It’s a bit of a recurring theme we’ve returned to in the context of a COVID-19 pandemic that doesn’t seem to want to completely go away (GET VACCINATED if you haven’t yet – yes it’s safe).  We don’t want people to neglect any other health issues they may have that went untreated while they were home avoiding the virus for a year or so and Dr. Goldberg wrote about that too.  We want people to take care of their health and see their doctor even when they are healthy as the article states.

White Coat

But maybe it’s not that easy for everyone.

We’ve written about White Coat Syndrome before on this blog but the one time we made it a featured topic it was all in good fun with a humorous take on why you might have it.  However we do acknowledge (as we did in the humorous post) that it’s certainly real for many and we want to explore that in a little more detail.

In our humorous post on the topic we included a link to this article from Medical News Today that goes into great detail about White Coat Syndrome – what it is, diagnoses, and even prevention, but that article is a little light on the prevention part.  We would like to point you to another one very thoughtfully written by a family practice in South Carolina called Thrive Family Medicine about how to overcome it with several actionable tips.  We hope this helps!  The last thing we would ever want to see is one of you avoiding a check up because of your anxiety over visiting the doctor’s office.

Take care of yourselves, thank you for reading and we will see you soon!

 

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28401 Hoover Rd.  Warren, Michigan 48093

Phone: (586) 276-7530

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5 “Potential Reasons” Why You Have White Coat Syndrome…

September 3, 2020

You may or may not be familiar with white coat syndrome.  Here is a link to an article in Medical News Today defining what it is and why it shouldn’t just be completely ignored.  Hypertension isn’t something to mess around with.

Now having said that, we do know as it says in the article that the anxiety of being around doctors may indeed have something to do with a temporary spike in blood pressure.  Why is this?  We’re not all bad we swear….. hehe…

White Coat Syndrome

 

We did some extensive and “really good” research and came up with five reasons that could explain this phenomenon.

5 Reasons You Might Have White Coat Syndrome

1. Your doctor looks like this guy…

Yep that’s Jack Elam as Doctor Nikolas Van Helsing in the silly film Cannonball Run.  We wouldn’t blame you if he gave you a little anxiety…

2. Your mother has been reminding you every time you sit down to eat to take care of yourself because of the heart history in your family as she’s serving you a huge pot roast and encouraging you to take seconds and thirds followed by homemade pound cake.  By the time you get to the doctor you’re terrified.

3. Your doctor has a picture of Ohio Stadium in the lobby and you’re a Michigan grad.  Okay that’s not exactly white coat syndrome – more like scarlet and grey uniform syndrome… either way it makes your blood boil.

4. Your doctor’s office lobby has the same color scheme as the principal’s office did at your high school.

5. Your doctor’s scale has been way off the last 8 straight times you’ve stepped on it.  No really you swear it has.

 

And there they are – the 5 reasons that might explain your white coat syndrome!

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South Macomb Internal Medicine

28401 Hoover Rd.  Warren, Michigan 48093

Phone: (586) 276-7530

South Macomb Internal Medicine has been designated a Patient Centered Medical Home by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan.

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