How Many of You Want To Become Doctors Just So You Can Wear A White Lab Coat?

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Admit it. That is at least something you are looking forward to. As soon as you enter a room with a lab coat on, everyone listens. How many of you are only into medicine for getting that respect?




Well enough harassing the pre-med students, i will go back to my area.
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Respect is good. I like it and want it. Do you not?
 
TexasTriathlete said:
That's why I'm doing it.
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Ha! I knew it.

The people in this area respond faster. It is the middle of the night and i got two responses in about three minutes. In the psychology area that would take at least three hours.
 
JackD said:
Admit it. That is at least something you are looking forward to. As soon as you enter a room with a lab coat on, everyone listens. How many of you are only into medicine for getting that respect?




Well enough harassing the pre-med students, i will go back to my area.
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Everyone at my hospital wears a long white coat from: the path tech, the resp therapist, the physical therapist, the occupational therapist, the nutritionist, the charge nurse, the social worker, the case manager, the phlebotimist. I personally like wearing my puma track jacket over my scrubs. When I walk into a room people think I'm going to brake dance.
 
Long Dong said:
Everyone at my hospital wears a long white coat from: the path tech, the resp therapist, the physical therapist, the occupational therapist, the nutritionist, the charge nurse, the social worker, the case manager, the phlebotimist. I personally like wearing my puma track jacket over my scrubs. When I walk into a room people think I'm going to brake dance.
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Exactly.

Have you ever been in a hospital, OP?

Everyone (even the lowly psychologist) wears a white lab coat.
 
I must say, white lab coats on young people always look hot. 👍

I can't wait until I can wear one.
 
As posters here have said...everyone gets to wear white lab coats. I wouldn't mind doing something a little different and have one that's kinda unique...

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I think having that on the back of the labcoat would be pretty badass but I think it would scare some patients heh :laugh:

internet cookies to the person who recognizes where this is from...
 
I choose med schools based on how nice their white coats are 😉
 
its funny i should see this thread formed...my bro visited this past xmas and he was wearing his new jacket that showed the emblem of his school and oral maxillofacial surgery designation. i asked him why he doesnt wear white coats at the hospital/clinic he works in and he said that they dont really care anymore and the jacket looks much cooler (which it does). i guess the white coat ceremony seems eventful during school, but once you've been in the business a few years, it loses it's originality and you just want to wear something cooler that says the same thing.

if ur wondering, this is at the medical college of wisconsin



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I'm actually looking more forward to wearing scrubs than the white coat. Is there anything better than wearing your pyjamas to work everyday?
 
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If you think wearing a long white coat will automatically earn you respect from the patient/patient's family...

🙁
 
I think that being an astronaut probably draws more respect than being a doctor, so I will wear a space suit to work.
 
If I thought long white coats looked cool and demanded respect, I'd probably wear one in the lab. Seems like everyone in certain other labs does. Since I don't feel that way about them, I got my own blue anti-static coat. It doesn't look like everyone else's and I'm happy with that.
 
Carrying nunchucks (sp?) also commands respect. I will have some on my person at all times, while in the space suit.
 
JackD said:
Ha! I knew it.

The people in this area respond faster. It is the middle of the night and i got two responses in about three minutes. In the psychology area that would take at least three hours.
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Psychologists have no friends...
 
wearing a white coat doesn't earn you respect...its how knowledgable/professional you sound after you open your mouth that will earn you the most respect! After all people like to flock to those that are intelligent and are a great source of information and that is where the respect comes from.

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If you want respect and no one to give you **** where a glock outside the white coat :idea:
 
I'm going to wear a crown to work everday and pimp my white coat out with mink fur. :bow:
 
Most of the time I wear a Chanel suit (or one of my Laura Ashley print dresses) and no white coat.(I spent some time at Mayo Clinic so I am pretty anti-white lab coat) My residents wear white coats but I can't be bothered. I wear scrubs in the OR and usually throw one of the OR gowns over my scrubs when I go out to speak with my patient's family.

When I was a resident and on overnight call, I wore a sweatshirt over my scrubs to keep warm and usually an OR gown over the sweatshirt for even more warmth. My white coat is usually hanging in the OR these days and doesn't see much action.

As for respect, everyone in my hospital from the folks in environmental services to the folks who work in the gift shop get respect. Wearing a white coat doesn't give you respect. Respected is earned.
 
dont underestimate the power of the white jacket!

I have my white 3/4 lab coat for being a Pharm tech and I was filling gas on the way to work one day and was approached by atleast 2 or three people asking what hospital I worked at and when I explained I worked at a Pharmacy I was bombarded with drug questions.

True story.

//nuff said.
 
njbmd said:
Most of the time I wear a Chanel suit (or one of my Laura Ashley print dresses) and no white coat.
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Didn't know those were still around! I just remember going to Sunday School in the 80s, and the rich girls would have on flower print Laura Ashley dresses - I was always so jealous 🙄. Just went to the website, and although there's still some hideousness (corduroy and flannel dresses?), they've got some pretty dresses as well.
 
I'm actually looking more forward to wearing scrubs than the white coat. Is there anything better than wearing your pyjamas to work everyday?
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my thoughts exactly. it's perfect.
 
taponthecloud said:
Psychologists have no friends...
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Na, i think the psychology area is mostly dead because getting into a clinical psychology program is so FREAKING hard, that most people don't bother. Not to say it is harder than being a medical doctor (i would guess it isn't) but the programs are so exclusive for some reason, that even highly qualified people have a very difficult time even getting into a program. Hell, i go to a major state university. The place is gigantic and has a huge psychology department. They let 2-3 people into their clinical psychology program every year. All of their programs combined accept about 15 people a year. The other option is to go to a for profit university and pay through the ass, which most people are unable or unwilling to do.

I think the reason that there is no one is in the psychology area is because there are very few clinical psychologists on this earth.
 
If I wanted a white coat I'd order it from my hospital's supply company... then wear it to Denny's and other places I haunt. From my point of view, spending ten+ years in school is the hard way to get one. 😉
 
I have to wear a white coat every day in lab...and now it has stains of undeterminate and possibly dangerous origin. Oh, well.

Me, I am looking forward to scrubs. They are rather comfortable in my opinion.
 
Concordia said:
I have to wear a white coat every day in lab...and now it has stains of undeterminate and possibly dangerous origin. Oh, well.

Me, I am looking forward to scrubs. They are rather comfortable in my opinion.
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I really hope I decide on a specialty where it's acceptable to wear scrubs all the time. 🙂
 
I have to wear a blue lab coat every day. No one knows what it means, so I just let my patients assume I'm some sort of super-powered doctor of the future.

Really, I'm just a research monkey. But being perceived as MD-of-the-future is a helluva lot more satisfying.
 
megboo said:
I don't have the money for a Chanel suit so I'm going to have to stick with my Jaclyn Smith collection from Sears.
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Katinka: I suggest you and your KMart Jaclyn Smith collection outfit stay the hell away from Derek Zoolander!

Matilda: By the way, you were wrong about my outfit. It's the Cheryl Ladd collection and I got it at JC Penney's. On sale!
 
prettymonkey said:
Katinka: I suggest you and your KMart Jaclyn Smith collection outfit stay the hell away from Derek Zoolander!

Matilda: By the way, you were wrong about my outfit. It's the Cheryl Ladd collection and I got it at JC Penney's. On sale!
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eh. I was too lazy to go back and verify. But you got the picture! :laugh:

Seriously though, I won't be able to afford Chanel until I'm out of residency. Even then, that's a frivolous expense for me. I'd rather spend the money on something else and sew my own clothes, but that's just me.
 
johnny pollen said:
I have to wear a blue lab coat every day. No one knows what it means, so I just let my patients assume I'm some sort of super-powered doctor of the future.
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i guess people don't watch nip/tuck - the blue ones are so much cooler.

anyway, over the past month i have seen two different "doctors" wearing scrubs and white coat at costco. and these were people in their 40s-50s. i was embarassed for them - nobody is that busy that they can't change to go to costco - if they really were, the scrubs would have had blood on them.
 
etf said:
i guess people don't watch nip/tuck - the blue ones are so much cooler.

anyway, over the past month i have seen two different "doctors" wearing scrubs and white coat at costco. and these were people in their 40s-50s. i was embarassed for them - nobody is that busy that they can't change to go to costco - if they really were, the scrubs would have had blood on them.
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there are a lot of administrative things that can suck up your time. I can see wearing scrubs, as they're an outfit, but you can easily slip off the white coat.
 
megboo said:
there are a lot of administrative things that can suck up your time. I can see wearing scrubs, as they're an outfit, but you can easily slip off the white coat.
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I always laugh at the medical students (chuckle on the inside rather) who wear their coats around needlessly, at some of the doctors as well. But I have a theory if you asked them about it I bet they would say they were "cold".

lol.
 
etf said:
i guess people don't watch nip/tuck - the blue ones are so much cooler.

anyway, over the past month i have seen two different "doctors" wearing scrubs and white coat at costco. and these were people in their 40s-50s. i was embarassed for them - nobody is that busy that they can't change to go to costco - if they really were, the scrubs would have had blood on them.
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many med students i know at a school that shall remain nameless would always be studying at coffee shops for HOURS in scrubs. they have the free time to study for hours, yet on the way to the coffee shop they couldn't stop by the house to change?

they were totally wanting to look "special."👎
 
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