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I think your problem is with the uniform policies at hospitals. The people you see walking around did not wear those scrubs in surgery but I do somewhat see how you’d be grossed out because they are working in proximity to patients
Rising Star
ER… yes?
“Virtual Signaling “
We are slowly turning into a nation of college freshmen who learn a new means of criticizing something and then can't wait to show off our new trick by applying it to literally everything.
Ok boomer
I’m sorry, but how does this affect you in any way? If a nurse or doctor needs to actually scrub in, they do so in the hospital.
It’s a uniform. You know who else brings in germs? Patients.
It makes zero sense to require scrubbing in up to surgery protocol for every hospital worker at all times.
Where the heck are you seeing doctors in scrubs outside a medical facility?
Depends what they do. At my dentists office the front desk wear scrubs.
They need to get back and forth to work. Since covid doctors who used to wear coat tie and a white coat aren't allowed to and are required to wear scrubs.... I find it bizarre that you take an issue to it. Maybe I'm offended when you wear your dress clothes back and forth to work or out for a cocktail after work
Rising Star
I really don’t think scrubs are spreading diseases. That seems like overreach. Maybe if you licked someone’s scrubs, but not just standing next to someone in line at Starbucks isn’t going to give you a disease.
Enthusiast
It seems that people here misunderstand scrubs. It’s not just a work outfit like a suit and tie. You are meant to change into it INSIDE THE HOSPITAL in specific sterile areas to prevent spread of germs while operating on patients. If I, with my suit, want to go into a sterile area, I have to wear a sterile suit on top to prevent contact of my dirty (=worn outside) clothes with equipment and suppliers in the sterile environment. 100% with OP here
Chief
OP in this thread reminds me of the OP who wouldn’t believe that shop owners don’t always live above their shop. In their world only surgeons wear scrubs and are lazy for not putting on a 3 piece suit for commuting.
It’s like a world made from Richard Scary books.
Went to dinner with a doctor last night who sort of confirmed.... people showing up at a bar in their scrubs is a clear ploy to get women. 🙄
What's different in the US is that scrubs are considered a uniform for many other positions rather than just for surgeons. What if the PCP or nurse in the office wore a suit to see patients vs scurbs? Would you want them to change their suit before they left for the day? I'd bet the majority, if not all, you see wearing scrubs outside their occupational location are not in a sterile environment. Having said this, I can't actually believe I wasted the time writing this.
I want my doctor wearing a Grateful Dead tshirt, jeans and flip flops, so I agree with OP
Rising Star
Why would you want a doctor with terrible taste in music?
100% with you OP! :)))
What banker?
Pro
I also find it odd all these civilians walking around in surgical masks. They are not doctors, what the hell. 😅
Wow, just wow! Those nurses work 12 plus hour shifts and then turn around and do it again the next day. They are taking care of our family members…. Our parents, siblings, and children. They are in the hospital every day and SOMETIMES get protective gear to protect themselves from the patients that have COVID all while getting paid not nearly enough. I think if they want to wear scrubs as they head into work or on the way home, it’s not a virtue signal, it’s efficiency. They just want to be home and get some sleep.
Unless it’s particularly convenient for them (which seems plausible), it’s definitely virtue signaling. It’s like a judge walking around in their black robe.
Chief
I think they do it bc they’re fucking tired and overworked and running out to grab a coffee or on their way home. Chill.
Pro
I’m really confused by this. When you commute to and from work do you usually change your clothes? Anything a health care worker wears to work (scrubs, dress clothes, jeans) is going to be in close proximity to patients. Is your view that, whether wearing scrubs or not, doctors should always change their clothes when they arrive at the hospital and again when they leave to go home? I understand disease prevention...but as the S.O. of a medical resident it just seems crazy to say that, after a 14 hour day, he needs to change his clothes to sit on empty public transit.
Pro
I appreciate the best wishes! I’m not opposed to the idea of changing clothes though, personally, I think it’s overkill. That said, after the year we just had, I think it’s insane for OP to suggest that a health care worker leaving the hospital in scrubs is doing so for *any* reason other than exhaustion.
Pro
Scrubbed in scrubs*
Pro
Pre scrubbed in scrubs
Rising Star
Popular opinion: you’re a narcissist and they’re saving lives, so if they want to “virtue signal” good for them.
You’re really so insecure that you can’t handle nurses being around?
Pro
Nurses?
As a resident who works more than 80 hours a week often doing shifts 30 to 36 hours at a time I find it very difficult to change out of my scrubs all the time before I head home. Sometimes I just want to escape the hospital so badly I absolutely need to get out asap to crash. Scrubs themselves are no different than regular clothes and they are usually no dirtier than regular clothes. On the topic of virtue signaling, i dont see how wearing scrubs indicates any sort of level of prestige or respect, everyone from the janitor to the chief of surgery wears scrubs. I dont have an issue with people who go home in suits, construction clothes, army uniforms etc and one could argue all those are uniforms unnecessarily being worn outside of work.
The hospital provides disposable protective gowns for nurses/ doctors/care aids to wear over their scrubs when they need to enter certain patients' rooms like in ICU. I don't think it's practical to ask people to change clothes every time they step in / out of the hospital.
While I claim no expertise on this at all, I’d hazard a guess that most doctors are not treating patients with infectious diseases. You aren’t gonna catch heart disease or cancer from the germs on a doctor’s clothes. As others have said, scrubbing in and out of surgery is a different matter. You’re just being a germophobe here.
Rising Star
And you’re not catching the flu Bc a doctor wore their scrubs to buy a gallon of milk and you walked past them.
Chief
My mom was a nurse.
Scrubs are the uniform, since it’s a job where regular clothes will get stains and ruined. Scrubs can be washed on hot and dried easily. Think of themes mechanics overalls.
They wear them for their convenience, not to be sterile.
If they were scrubbing in, they’d change or don protection.
During covid, many docs I had previously seen in real clothes were in scrubs because the protocols were for them to change before entering their houses- scrubs were taken off easily in a garage or foyer and thrown in the wash right away, versus dry cleanable clothes or fancier things.
So you are seeing more scrubs now, because of that.