How to be taken seriously at work?

I’m an imaging tech at a hospital and I have always been perceived as being younger than I am, outside of work and at work. It definitely makes people above me (especially doctors) respect me less, which makes the typical doctor attitudes even more patronizing. I try to not get affected by it, but it’s really frustrating. I’m limited to only wearing scrubs and I can’t go crazy (and frankly don’t want to) on makeup because of the job setting (don’t want to draw a certain type of attention from patients). If anybody has any ideas on what I could do to be taken for my age, please let me know!

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