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This question might be rather stupid but what the heck.. I've been shadowing for a few weeks now and wanted to take a picture in my "scrubs," to post on my blog and perhaps FB. The pic would just be myself in scrubs with a blank wall in the background. Is it against hospital rules to do so? Am I breaking some sort of Medical etiquette? Appreciate any and all feedback!
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Uh, I don't see any reason why you couldn't.
 
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Irish Football said:
Me neither, OP what specifically do you think might be wrong with doing this?
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I've heard of incidents of Hospitals kicking out and even suing others for taking pictures and posting on FB. Although you wouldn't know where I even was in the pic, I figured better safe than sorry.
 
I doubt it's against hospital rules as long as you don't have anything that could identify specific patients there. In other words, it might be a bad idea to take a picture of yourself standing over the gurney of a patient about to go into surgery, holding a scalpel, and grinning maniacally.

Just be sure that when you take this pic, you caption it with 'SurgGunna4Lyfe.'
 
U Wot M8 said:
Ugh please don't do this OP it's so tacky
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Yeah kinda ended up feeling that way, so didn't post it.. Guess I'll just wait 5 years till its actually legit haha.. Thanks for the feedback yall 👍
 
theBruceWayne said:
This question might be rather stupid but what the heck.. I've been shadowing for a few weeks now and wanted to take a picture in my "scrubs," to post on my blog and perhaps FB. The pic would just be myself in scrubs with a blank wall in the background. Is it against hospital rules to do so? Am I breaking some sort of Medical etiquette? Appreciate any and all feedback!
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SilverCat said:
I doubt it's against hospital rules as long as you don't have anything that could identify specific patients there. In other words, it might be a bad idea to take a picture of yourself standing over the gurney of a patient about to go into surgery, holding a scalpel, and grinning maniacally.
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This. And if you have the hospital's name in the pic, make sure that you're not doing anything unprofessional.

Otherwise, you're fine.
Plenty of med students do this when they first start rotations and are excited to actually start playing medicine.
 
As long as there is nothing identifying patients and or the hospital you're fine. When in doubt, keep it off of social media. Not worth the risk.

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theBruceWayne said:
Yeah kinda ended up feeling that way, so didn't post it.. Guess I'll just wait 5 years till its actually legit haha.. Thanks for the feedback yall 👍
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there are zero real doctors that take pictures of themselves in scrubs and post it on facebook
 
I'm honestly surprised that you didn't get seriously flamed for this...

But seriously I want to add pretty much what everybody else was saying about no patients in your pictures, but I'm sure you already knew that.
 
yehhhboiii said:
there are zero real doctors that take pictures of themselves in scrubs and post it on facebook
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Yes, but most attendings went into practice before Facebook became popular. I personally can't wait until I'm a resident.

Morning: Tweet a picture of my bowl of cereal for breakfast, caption-- "Lol, Doc's first br8kfast. Lol. #superexcitedimarealdoctor!

Take snapshots of me in my long white coat with a thumbs -up and a goofy smile and paste them into my Facebook page. Try different poses for best pic. Paste more photos into Facebook.

Walk to work-- check how many people "like" my pics.

First patient: Take video of my encounter, blurring the face, and changing voice of patient. Post on YouTube, entitled, "SilverCat, MD, FACS, cures patient."

Afternoon: Chat on Google with friends about how exhausted I am seeing so many patients in a day, making sure to repeatedly say doctor: "well, as a doctor," "being a doctor," " my free time's so limited as a doctor," "doctors are so under- appreciated" "you've no idea what it's like to be a doctor."

Evening: Blog about first day as a resident on page entitled, "Bumpy Ride to MD," or "Typical girl in Residency," or " Reflections on Residency." Something cutesy or kitschy.
Be sure to talk about how hard I work, but how rewarding the practice is as I gaze into the eyes of my elderly, blind, deaf, handicapped patient who thanks me with tears in his eyes.

Yes, it's a different world.
 
SilverCat said:
Evening: Blog about first day as a resident on page entitled, "Bumpy Ride to MD," or "Typical girl in Residency," or " Reflections on Residency." Something cutesy or kitschy.
Be sure to talk about how hard I work, but how rewarding the practice is as I gaze into the eyes of my elderly, blind, deaf, handicapped patient who thanks me with tears in his eyes.

Yes, it's a different world.
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make sure to include the part about the faraway look in his eyes as he looks with unseeing eyes deep into your eyes
 
sinombre said:
I saw a dude in a white coat at a bar once.
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theBruceWayne said:
This question might be rather stupid but what the heck.. I've been shadowing for a few weeks now and wanted to take a picture in my "scrubs," to post on my blog and perhaps FB. The pic would just be myself in scrubs with a blank wall in the background. Is it against hospital rules to do so? Am I breaking some sort of Medical etiquette? Appreciate any and all feedback!
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A friend of mine did when she shadowed in high school and I did years ago shadowing one day. I made sure there was nothing in the background and haven't had any issues as far as I know.

P.s. I too thought it would be tacky, but if you're not in your face about it I think it's fine. People who play paintball take pics of themselves in full gear for fun, I don't see how this is any different. But that might just be me. 😛

Edit: Wow a lot of folks are really against this. I still don't get how it's douchy or makes someone a tool. Being able to scrub in for something is a cool experience for a lot of people, and wanting to share that with friends seems like a pretty reasonable thing to do.
 
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Not sure why a bunch of people who probably post ad nauseam like "bio and chem at the same time?! Pre-med is totes super duper hard you guys! #premedprobz #roflmao" are so against taking a pic in scrubs. Want to share with your friends that you're enjoying shadowing? Go for it. It's a fun, unique experience.

My only critique would be to make it a more candid picture. Slap on some PPE and take a funny picture.
 
You can probably do this, but you'll look like a huge tool. I'm not sure if hospitals can discipline you for looking like a huge tool, but you should check their policies.
 
1. No. it is absolutely not ok to post yourself in scrubs on facebook. Your friends might think you have actually made it as a medical student and due to the fact that only 37% of people applying get into medical school all of the girls who would know consider you more attractive would be mislead. So, no, it is not ok.

2. One of the hospitals that I worked at had this listed on the front of their scrubs "Removal from of these scrubs from hospital grounds is a terminating offense." We took as many of those scrubs as we possibly could.
 
GoPelicans said:
To show off how much of a scrub you are?
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Bahahahahaha!! Touché !

No, I don't want your number. No, I don't want to give you mine and No, I don't wanna meet you nowhere, no, don't want none of your time.
 
CityLights said:
I'm assuming you're not kidding, only because I've seen a guy in blue surgical scrubs at a dressy restaurant on a Saturday night...
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A lot of surgical residents on call will go to neighboring restaurants in their attire at my hospital. It is what it is, there isn't anyone there to impress.
 
Why stop at the scrubs? Throw on a white lab coat and write "theBruceWayne, Pre-Medical Studies" on it too.
 
yehhhboiii said:
I'm pretty sure someone posted a story about a premed like this two or three years ago
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Yeah some pre-med shadowing at an ED bought a white coat to wear while shadowing (liability nightmare). Also handed out business cards that said "Joe So-and-So, Pre-Medicine" hahaha! The guy telling the story said that the last time he checked, the pre-med had only applied for one med school and was denied. Thank god :meanie:
 
You should post as many pictures as you can on facebook. Add some caption about how cool you are.
 
You will soon realize when you have to wear that stuff everyday that it is kinda a douche-y thing to do. The only time it is ok to wear scrubs outside of the hospital is when
1) You didn't have time to change and it is urgent you get somewhere
2) You want to clearly identify yourself as a massive douche-canoe
 
Instatewaiter said:
The only time it is ok to wear scrubs outside of the hospital is when
1) You didn't have time to change and it is urgent you get somewhere
2) You want to clearly identify yourself as a massive douche-canoe
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I live in a city with a lot of hospitals, and there are always people on the train, bus, etc in scrubs. I see doctors walking to their apartment in scrubs. I always thought it was kinda nasty. It's especially nasty when people who work in the OR go to the Au Bon Pain in the hospital wearing their footcovers, gown, hear net, etc.
 
Instatewaiter said:
You will soon realize when you have to wear that stuff everyday that it is kinda a douche-y thing to do. The only time it is ok to wear scrubs outside of the hospital is when
1) You didn't have time to change and it is urgent you get somewhere
2) You want to clearly identify yourself as a massive douche-canoe
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i see nurses going to work everyday in scrubs
 
yehhhboiii said:
there are zero real doctors that take pictures of themselves in scrubs and post it on facebook
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not true. I know of 2 doctors who have pictures of themselves in their scrubs on facebook. one is a resident and the other is an attending
 
BioBeaver said:
Yeah some pre-med shadowing at an ED bought a white coat to wear while shadowing (liability nightmare). Also handed out business cards that said "Joe So-and-So, Pre-Medicine" hahaha! The guy telling the story said that the last time he checked, the pre-med had only applied for one med school and was denied. Thank god :meanie:
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Wow... Business cards?...

I was actually told by one of the physicians i was going to shadow to where a white coat... Never ended up actually shadowing the dude though.

GoPelicans said:
I live in a city with a lot of hospitals, and there are always people on the train, bus, etc in scrubs. I see doctors walking to their apartment in scrubs. I always thought it was kinda nasty. It's especially nasty when people who work in the OR go to the Au Bon Pain in the hospital wearing their footcovers, gown, hear net, etc.
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I see a lot of this too. Can they seriously not take off the hair net or footcovers??....
 
Commuting to/from work with scrubs isn't too bad, I saw nurses and students do that as a med student. Personally, I'd rather change before doing shopping or hitting up the bar in scrubs. However I can understand if someone lives really far away(or is on call) and wants to get a bite to eat. The hospital I'm at prefers that people don't enter/leave with scrubs and change in the locker room(although some still break that rule 😛)
 
Doctor Strange said:
Go to school in a city with a lot of health care stuffs going on, so one of the local bars has "Scrub Hours" where anyone wearing scrubs gets drink specials. It's the bomb.
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What?! That sounds awesome... NYC is where it's at!
 
it might be a bad idea to take a picture of yourself standing over the gurney of a patient about to go into surgery
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theBruceWayne said:
This question might be rather stupid but what the heck.. I've been shadowing for a few weeks now and wanted to take a picture in my "scrubs," to post on my blog and perhaps FB. The pic would just be myself in scrubs with a blank wall in the background. Is it against hospital rules to do so? Am I breaking some sort of Medical etiquette? Appreciate any and all feedback!
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Umm...no rule against it, but it would look pretty tacky and laughable...
 
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