What are you wearing...

[Dr. Wexler]

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to work?

I would make a poll but there are too many possible permutations of mandatory vs. optional, resident vs. attending, issued scrubs vs. personal scrubs.

So what is everyone wearing in the ED? Are you given an option or are you told exactly what to wear?

 

[docB]

Embroidered scrub top, EMS pants (pockets), black sneakers, bitter scowl.

Not really told what to wear. No nudity.

 

[EM2BE]

Embroidered scrub top, EMS pants (pockets), black sneakers, bitter scowl.

Not really told what to wear. No nudity.

In Vegas? 😉

 

[docB]

In Vegas? 😉

Not for the docs. Our PAs wear Gstrings though.

 

[BadVB750]

Not for the docs. Our PAs wear Gstrings though.

PAs by day and strippers by night. I wonder which pays better?

 

[EM2BE]

PAs by day and strippers by night. I wonder which pays better?

I'm going with stripping.

 

[ERMudPhud]

Scrub top with lots of pockets made from gaudy printed fabric, random scrub bottom, crocs (the ones with no holes in the top), my ID if I can find it, tired and bored with flat affect.

 

[SoCuteMD]

What's with the scowls and bored looks?

 

[ERMudPhud]

What's with the scowls and bored looks?

Nothing in life stays 100% interesting and exciting forever. There are plenty of days where I see mostly stupid or boring stuff, hence the flat affect. After all you can't see too many CC: I need a pregnancy test because I might be pregnant but I want to go out drinking tonite.

On the other hand in 7 hours the other night I saw 9 truly critical patients:
1: Sepsis with pyelo
2: Early sepsis with sigmoid volvulus
3: Pneumococcal sepsis with meningitis: caught early enough to matter
4: SVT @>220bpm with ischemia
5: Acute massive R sided MI with hypotension
6: Code Blue (didn't survive 🙁 )
7: Car vs median at >100mph
8: Motorcycle vs moving van at 35 mph
9: hyponatremia with AMS

plus I relocated a dislocated shoulder in 13 year old easily without sedation I left exhausted but satisfied

 

[FoughtFyr]

I'm an attending. I wear an embroidered polo shirt and 5.11 tactical pants (pockets, easy to clean, elastic waist for all the cookies the night shift nurses bring) and a slightly bemused smile.

- H

 

[DrMom]

I wear an embroidered scrub top with scrub pants (none hospital provided). Long sleeved shirt under my scrub top because I'm perpetually cold. I have embroidered sweatshirt jackets for when I'm *really* cold. White coat because my PD likes us to wear them (plus more pockets). Danksos. I have bags under my eyes.

 

[kungfufishing]

Resident. Program provided green, embroidered scrubs. T shirt. Lucky underwear (at least 10 pairs deemed lucky by me). Running shoes.

 

[doctawife]

Attending. I wear scrubs from the hospital's ORs that I stole during intern year. They're 4 years old now and starting to show their age. My ID, my Spectralink phone, my pager.

I've thought about getting some embroidered scrub tops, but then some kid bleeds on me or shoots pressurized CSF at my chest. As it is, I can just change shirts and drop the soiled top in the nearest linen bin. If I got personalized shirts, I'd have to deal with that mess myself. AND everyone would know I was clumsy enough to get bled on since it would be obvious that I changed my shirt. Right now I can kinda sneak such things by everyone... 🙄

 

[anonymousEM]

attending, scrubs...stolen from various hospitals throughout my career. Various colors but always matching (a habit based on the pet peeves of my program director in residency). Usually with my white coat...I hate it but the culture where I am now is for attendings to wear white coats, residents +/-.

 

[SolidGold]

Embroidered polo shirt (teflon coated) or hospital scrub top with black cargo pants. I'd love to get some EMS pants but with a lowly resident income, $10-$12 pants from outlet stores is all I want to spend. Dansko's and boxer briefs. None of the residents here wear their white coat while working in the ED.

 

[RockfordWF]

I'm not sure how you guys do it with the EMS pants. I find them too uncomfortable. I found some cargo pants that closely resemble EMS from Target which are much softer. I use them on EMS flights. However for the ER, I have some Landau scrubs that have cargo pockets and are buttoned with a zipper (instead of the tie.) I hate that tie. I always feel like my scrub pants loosen up and am constantly retying it. The zipper is also convenient for other reasons...

I notice alot of the residents wearing those rubber clogs, but I find them too uncomfortable. I just wear tennis shoes.

 

[Jeff698]

Resident.

Embroidered navy blue scrubs (top and bottom) that our program gave us at the beginning of intern year. Perfectly clean white coat in closet feeling abandoned.

Take care,
Jeff

 

[8744]

Resident: Non-standard red (or "gay man coral") scrubs that I swiped from the LSU Shreveport OR in third year of medical school, t-shirt, running shoes, plus/minus white coat.

I have some green scubs that I looted from the LSU Shreveport Labor Unit. I don't wear our hospital scrubs because they are a wierd polyester blend while mine are mostly cotton and very comfortable.

The only draw-back to wearing red scrubs when everybody else is wearing blue ones is that if anything goes wrong, the patient will be quick to identify the one person in the room as, "Yeah, I remember that one doctor in the red scrubs."

 

[8744]

Oh, and I also wear a look of perpetual optimism, a certain devil-may-care cheefulness that indicates I am so happy that at any moment I will start whistling zippidee-doo-da out of my rectum.

 

[ditch doctor]

Resident: Non-standard red (or "gay man coral") scrubs that I swiped from the LSU Shreveport OR in third year of medical school, t-shirt, running shoes, plus/minus white coat.

I have some green scubs that I looted from the LSU Shreveport Labor Unit. I don't wear our hospital scrubs because they are a wierd polyester blend while mine are mostly cotton and very comfortable.

The only draw-back to wearing red scrubs when everybody else is wearing blue ones is that if anything goes wrong, the patient will be quick to identify the one person in the room as, "Yeah, I remember that one doctor in the red scrubs."

Dude, the LSU Shreveport OR scrubs rock. I did an away there in anesthesia, and, er, accidentally went back to North Carolina with them... ooops... the color is goofy, though... can't wear them to work or else I get made fun of...

 

[NinerNiner999]

Lace.

 

[DrQuinn]

Attending.

During day shifts, I wear a shirt, tie, slacks, and lab coat. Sometimes I'll wear it on night shifts because the night nurses say I never dress up for them.

"Fast track", evening, nights, and general weekends i wear scrubs, my cell phone, my work spectrelink, and generally a lab coat.

I am one of only 3 ED attendings at my place (of about 25) that wear a shirt and tie.

ANd yes it probably has MRSA.

And c. trachomatis.

Q