scrub caps

[SigEp MD Alpha]

So I'm on my surgery rotations and in Eagles country but am an avid NY Giants fan. A lot of the nurses and techs and a few of the attendings are Eagles fan and show it by wearing Eagles paraphernalia. I wanna show my own support of the team by purchasing a NY Giants scrub cap ($9 incl shipping). I know the attendings that will be grading me during my rotation and none of them will care about my cap. However, do you think it'll be taken as light-hearted as I intend? Or will these Eagles fans take it too seriously?

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[Bacchus]

Don't mess with Philly Sports fans...haha. But, its not that big of a deal. You'll probably get some sass about it but all in good fun. I have a couple friends from Pittsburgh here at school and they wore Steelers jerseys to a local bar. No one said anything. Its a sports team, its not the end of the world.

 

[smq123]

So I'm on my surgery rotations and in Eagles country but am an avid NY Giants fan. A lot of the nurses and techs and a few of the attendings are Eagles fan and show it by wearing Eagles paraphernalia. I wanna show my own support of the team by purchasing a NY Giants scrub cap ($9 incl shipping). I know the attendings that will be grading me during my rotation and none of them will care about my cap. However, do you think it'll be taken as light-hearted as I intend? Or will these Eagles fans take it too seriously?

No. Don't bring in an outside cap.

You're a student. It will be taken as arrogance by some (even many) if you wear a cloth cap, not the paper ones that everyone else wears.

In some surgery residency programs, it's even frowned upon for interns to wear specially bought cloth caps; some people feel that you're taking the "liberty" of doing so when you're still new and green. It's kind of like the surgery equivalent of going to an acquaintance's house and putting your feet up on the coffee table.

What's on the cap is irrelevant. The cap itself might not be welcome. I know it sounds weird, but that's the culture of the specialty.

If you want to show support for your team, get a Giants neck lanyard and wear your ID on that.

 

[SouthernSurgeon]

No. Don't bring in an outside cap.

You're a student. It will be taken as arrogance by some (even many) if you wear a cloth cap, not the paper ones that everyone else wears.

In some surgery residency programs, it's even frowned upon for interns to wear specially bought cloth caps; some people feel that you're taking the "liberty" of doing so when you're still new and green. It's kind of like the surgery equivalent of going to an acquaintance's house and putting your feet up on the coffee table.

What's on the cap is irrelevant. The cap itself might not be welcome. I know it sounds weird, but that's the culture of the specialty.

If you want to show support for your team, get a Giants neck lanyard and wear your ID on that.

Agree with this. Do not bring your own cap as a student.

 

[Tiger26]

Agree with above--I don't care if you've got a cap with a stripper lighting up a marlboro (that would be pretty sweet btw), but the fact that you brought your own surgical cap into the OR would not go over well.

If you care about your grade at the very least, I'd say don't go near this move.

 

[Winged Scapula]

Yep, agree with the above.

I've rotated, trained and worked at many programs. In every single one, students wearing an outside/specialty cap was frowned upon. In at least 1, interns were as well.

Don't be that guy (and BTW, some hospitals are phasing them out and requiring the paper caps...not sure why, but I'll bet its got JCAHO written all over it).

 

[MrBeauregard]

"Don't be that guy (and BTW, some hospitals are phasing them out and requiring the paper caps...not sure why, but I'll bet its got JCAHO written all over it). "

Agreed. It does have to do with JCAHO. JCAHO is coming through my hospital next week and we got a memo that no one can wear personal cloth caps in the OR unless they are covered with the paper caps. For example, if a female wears a personal tie-dye bouffant cap, she must cover it with the standard Medline (or whatever brand) bouffant cap. Same goes for the tie-backs.

And also, just don't be that guy. Maybe when you've got your own practice, MAYBE, wear a cap other than paper. But really, how cheesy are novelty scrub caps anyways?

 

[indo]

The company that owns JHACO also owns the company that sells the crap required to make hospitals "jhaco compliant". Nice.

 

[J ROD]

Dont poke a bee's nest!

No soup for you!!! Come back one year!!!

 

[Steiner]

Cracks me up that bringing your own hat is viewed as some kind of arrogance or anything else. I might go get my own team scrubs and wear them along with a team scrub hat. What does it matter what you wear. People looking at it like some sort of right to wear your own scrub hat to the OR. That this is even an issue is a joke I think. "That guy" would be the surgeon who gets on your case for wearing your own hat to the OR "like you're already a doctor or something."

 

[smq123]

Cracks me up that bringing your own hat is viewed as some kind of arrogance or anything else. I might go get my own team scrubs and wear them along with a team scrub hat. What does it matter what you wear. People looking at it like some sort of right to wear your own scrub hat to the OR. That this is even an issue is a joke I think. "That guy" would be the surgeon who gets on your case for wearing your own hat to the OR "like you're already a doctor or something."

Maybe....but when "that guy" who is the surgeon who gets on your case is also "that guy" who can torpedo your grade and make you seem like an arrogant MS3 on your dean's letter....is it REALLY worth it?

Sometimes, it's easier just to play the game, really. 😳

 

[Winged Scapula]

Yeah, no one ever said the game was fair or made sense.

Believe me, hospitals are full of rules which are ridiculous. You can choose which ones to fight and what you are willing to sacrifice for your "principles". Just wear the stupid paper cap.