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Should Doctors Grow Moustache / Beard P. Madhok ike other people doctors are also Lhuman. It is only natural that the males wish to enhance their personality by growing moustaches and beards. In the army you get a special allowance if you grow a moustache because the army believes that the moustache enhances a male personality, gives him confidence and polishes his ego. They do not encourage beards because that comes in the way of wearing a helmet. Only the Sikh Regiment is allowed beard on religious grounds provided they use fixos. It is interesting to know the varieties of moustaches that the doctors like. Long whiskers look unkempt and wild and gives one a very masculine look. Walrus type needs looking after with regular brushing and even starching, to make it pointy. Hitler popularised his own brand - a tuft of hair under the nose very popular in the thirties and forties, but now used by comedians and jokers. The chinese type with only lateral growth and nothing in the middle makes one look mystic. The Raj Kapoor style of 2 x daggers with adjacent handle and tips away, looks Bohemian. A thin line on the upper lip barely visible to the naked eye is popular with some. A moustache should never be self trimmed. The tend to become unequal. It is strange people get very emotional about their moustache. Men keep rolling the ends when doing nothing or when in deep thought. Some even wax the tip. Any suggestion at modification is met with straight rebuttal and a heated debate. Peripatetic Commentary Bombay Hospital Journal, Vol. 54, No. 2, 2012 359 Keeping a very beauty conscious. They have their own special mirror and vanity boxes full of scissors and trimmers of all size and dimensions. Small brushes and even a bleacher or colouring agent completes the picture. In their spare time keep looking at themselves in the mirror from all angles. Some even have moustache album borrowed from hair dressers. Keeping a moustache does not come in the way of delivering medical treatment. Only it takes longer for the doctor in the morning to groom himself.Taking about beards there are doctors who look like saints and seers with long hair and flowing beards. Some even resemble Rabindranath Tagore. This much amount of hair on the face makes cleaning difficult. One sees the moustache-beard combination getting messy after meals, when food particles stick to the hair. Partially deaf people find it very difficult to lip read if your facial area is covered with hair. People with long flowing beards will have difficulty wearing mask in theatre. It is positively unhygienic especially during operation. Some hair may fall in the wound. Goaty beards are in fashion today and are welcome, because they do not interfere with hospital practice. Sikh surgeons neatly knot up their beard before operating, so there is no risk.I think in all this discussion, female surgeons have all the advantages.moustache has made doctors