Is it just me or does it seem kind of weird to walk into your kid's school in a white doctor coat? I can understand the scrubs, especially if it is what he normally wears to go to the hospital. But what's the deal with the white coat? It wasn't even cold this morning, so I doubt he was wearing it for warmth. Plus aren't those things supposed to be sterile? I shudder to imagine someone performing surgery on me after lounging in his scrubs at the local Starbucks or pumping gas in them.
All I know is that if I worked at Home Depot, I doubt I'd wear my orange apron while running errands outside of work. I'd want to leave my work uniform at the office. Part of me wonders if he was just trying to impress? Or am I just being too critical? I would love to get some perspective from any MDs out there...
I'm not a doc, but my father-in-law is a heart surgeon and he wears scrubs basically 95% of the time. When he's performing surgery he wears a plastic cover over top of them--not sure what it's called but it's packaged in a sterile plastic wrap and thrown away after one use. No matter how well you washed/cleaned a lab coat or scrubs, they would never be sterile.
ReplyDeleteIf this doctor is anything like my FIL, he wore the lab coat out of the house and to work because he had to take it home to clean it and if it wasn't on his person, he'd forget it.
That makes sense... thanks for the perspective!
DeleteAt the hospital where I work, all OR personnel, tech, Doctors,etc. must change every time they go into surgery. Scrubs can not be worn out on the street and then into the OR. They can wear scrubs and a lab coat outside the hospital, but never the same scrubs into the OR
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