LabCoat Style Question

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I wear my shirt sleeves rolled up under the coat. I also avoid wearing a tie when I can. Anything to keep my clothes from touching patients is a good thing.

As far as what is fashionable, Im not sure. I worry more about acinetobacter! 🙂
 
JPHazelton said:
I wear my shirt sleeves rolled up under the coat. I also avoid wearing a tie when I can. Anything to keep my clothes from touching patients is a good thing.

As far as what is fashionable, Im not sure. I worry more about acinetobacter! 🙂
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Thanks for the input!

We are required to wear ties all the time..so I cant skip on that.
 
I think ties are OK for outpatient medicine. But IMO ties have no place in the hospital, especially in the MICU/SICU.

You can wash your hands, you white coat, your stethescope, your shirt...but who washes their ties?
 
JPHazelton said:
I think ties are OK for outpatient medicine. But IMO ties have no place in the hospital, especially in the MICU/SICU.

You can wash your hands, you white coat, your stethescope, your shirt...but who washes their ties?
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ever heard drying cleaning bud
 
TheCat said:
ever heard drying cleaning bud
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Dry cleaning kills ties. And very few dry cleaners do a good job with ties.
 
yeah, it's too bad ties are considered "professional attire"

Personally, I may go into private practice just for the sole ability to wear whatever the heck I want to each day without some admin type trying to force the silk noose on me.
 
mdub said:
Dry cleaning kills ties. And very few dry cleaners do a good job with ties.
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Exactly. I've lost many a tie to a dry cleaner. They either come back frayed at the end or they lose their crease and shape.
 
your shirts will last a lot longer if they don't stick out beyond the coat. Look at how disgustingly dirty and frayed your coat looks, and that's what will become of of your nice shirts. And fellas, if you button your coat, the tie stays put.
 
The problem with buttoning up a short white coat to contain a tie is that it looks silly and is not functional. Longer white coats allow you to button just the top half, thus containing the tie and also allowing you to sit comfortably... though this tends to looks quite bad on overweight people.

Bottom line - wearing a tie sucks.
 
whatever you do...don't wear a bowtie. We had a student wear one and it comes across as very odd.

Odd people wear bowties.
 
asdf123 said:
whatever you do...don't wear a bowtie. We had a student wear one and it comes across as very odd.

Odd people wear bowties.
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highly dependent on location
 
I've seen doctors tuck the bottom half of their tie into their shirt (inbetween the buttons on the front if you know what I mean)
 
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