where to get a long white coat w/cloth buttons?

[ramonaquimby]

hey, guys! i searched the board with minimal luck...where can i get a quality cotton white coat with french knot and an open slit in the back? bonus if it's got inside pockets too. i want to invest in a nice one before starting internship (i'm sure the ones they give us are crappy...or at least i'm guessing...)

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[BKN]

hey, guys! i searched the board with minimal luck...where can i get a quality cotton white coat with french knot and an open slit in the back? bonus if it's got inside pockets too. i want to invest in a nice one before starting internship (i'm sure the ones they give us are crappy...or at least i'm guessing...)

These people make the best to order. Not cheap, but they last. 3 inside pockets. heavy material, good stitchery(?)

www.medicalcoats.com

 

[Mumpu]

The inside pockets will come in handy when peddling hemoccult developer. "Psst buddy, check this out!"

 

[BKN]

The inside pockets will come in handy when peddling hemoccult developer. "Psst buddy, check this out!"

It's pretty sad that I laughed at this harder than anything else I've seen on SDN.

 

[Bobblehead]

hey, guys! i searched the board with minimal luck...where can i get a quality cotton white coat with french knot and an open slit in the back? bonus if it's got inside pockets too. i want to invest in a nice one before starting internship (i'm sure the ones they give us are crappy...or at least i'm guessing...)

Standing out by the way you dress can be a double edged sword.

 

[deleted87716]

where can i get a quality cotton white coat with french knot and an open slit in the back?

I've never seen 100% cotton coats with frog buttons in womens' sizes, but you can order them from AllHeart as well as other places. You might be able to get by with the smaller mens' sizes, although ordering online won't allow you try them on first. Make sure the vendor has a good return policy just in case it doesn't fit. The ones I've seen do not have inside pockets.

Incidentally, I wore this kind of coat during residency, and while it does "breathe" a little better than the poly/cotton blends, it wrinkles like crazy, even if you have it professionally cleaned and lightly starched.

 

[TCOM-2006]

These people make the best to order. Not cheap, but they last. 3 inside pockets. heavy material, good stitchery(?)

www.medicalcoats.com

good site - i'll have to get an orange one!

 

[fourthyearmed]

Why waste the money when most programs give you 3-6 perfectly good white coats for free?

 

[APACHE3]

cloth buttons are senior/chief or attendings only! You show up on day one of internship like that, its your a$$!! 😀 Unless you can back it up...you better know your stuff. But I'm sure your program will give you coats..

 

[Pir8DeacDoc]

Standard issue at my program is the cloth knots. Guess each place does it their own way.

 

[Orange Julius]

cloth buttons are senior/chief or attendings only! You show up on day one of internship like that, its your a$$!! 😀 Unless you can back it up...you better know your stuff. But I'm sure your program will give you coats..

This is very true. These are only given to medical fellows and surgical chiefs where I train. Wearing one as an intern would be like wearing a long coat as a student. Not a good idea. 👎

 

[deleted87716]

This is very true. These are only given to medical fellows and surgical chiefs where I train. Wearing one as an intern would be like wearing a long coat as a student.

One more reason I'm glad I didn't train in an academic medical center. 🙄

 

[mackie]

cloth buttons are senior/chief or attendings only! You show up on day one of internship like that, its your a$$!! 😀 Unless you can back it up...you better know your stuff.

This sounds silly. Are there actually places that have this mentality? Please tell me you're being sarcastic.

 

[toofache32]

This sounds silly. Are there actually places that have this mentality? Please tell me you're being sarcastic.

I was thinking the same thing. Everyone's coats are basically the same where
I am....med students, PA students, dieticians, attendings, residents, etc.

Anyone who spends more than 2 seconds of your life thinking about this needs to grow up, drop the ego, and learn where respect actually comes from.

 

[Megalofyia]

http://www.cottonscrubs.com/detail.htm?dept_id=8&sub_id=106
This is exactly the description you had. They are also having a sale so it's $33.99.

 

[phatfarm]

I was thinking the same thing. Everyone's coats are basically the same where
I am....med students, PA students, dieticians, attendings, residents, etc.

Anyone who spends more than 2 seconds of your life thinking about this needs to grow up, drop the ego, and learn where respect actually comes from.

All the previous posts show that this issue is institution dependent. At my hospital, only attendings and up get the cloth buttons.

I think it is worth a few seconds to observe what goes on at your soon-to-be institution, to make sure there's no social faux pas being made.

Someone at my med school sported the long white coat while the rest of us wore the shorties. This wasn't well received by the residents...

 

[IndyXRT]

OK, seriously. About half way through your first day, you're going to be sporting a wrinkled, dingy white coat (because hospitals are dirty and white coats are, well, white). No matter how nice it was at the beginning of the day, at the end of the day it will be just as wrinkled and dingy as everyone else's white coat. Don't waste your money.

 

[APACHE3]

Thats the best answer...coats (dress code) are institution dependent. In illinios I hear they wear blue, coats and brown coats, (so dont show up with a white one). Talk to one of the interns or residents at your program and wear what they have or wear what they give you. And I would postpone the cloth button coat at least a year... 😀

 

[Annette]

Belive it or not, there is something of a method for all the different coats. They are uniforms, so that in emergent/urgent situations, you can tell what a person does. For example, in my hospital, IM/FP wear the traditional blue scrubs. OB wears a lighter blue. Surgery wears different shades of green (ortho, general, urology). The long coats are reserved for residents and physicians, so in a code, I don't ask a person wearing green scrubs and a short coat to put in a central line (or other surgical procedure). (Part of the reason why the residents didn't take the student wearing a long coat very well.)

There is nothing more irritating than asking a person you think is an RN to get a drug during a code, and that person says, "Sorry, I'm respiratory."

 

[la gringa]

in illinois (at least at my hospital) some/most of the attendings wear gray, but all residents i've seen from like 7 different hospitals wear a white coat.

 

[matakanan]

HEHE ..in my school...the big bosses get the right to walk around withOUT a coat. The kiddies better be wearing their coats or they get skinned alive. And heck thats how the patients realise if the person entering the room is a 'real' doc or just a student... they look for the coats.

 

[penguins]

Okay,
I never thought this was a big deal. Where I am going, they only give the prelims 1 white coat so I was just going to go to my local uniform shop, pick out a coat, get my name "penguins, M.D. , Internal Medicine" written on it so that I could have a back up while mine was at the cleaners.
You guys have stressed me out. Should I wait to see what kind of coat everyone is wearing first? I remember that everyone wore white at least, but I can't remember the details.
I hate to even mention this out of fear but I was even going to get in written in purple. 😱

 

[CNphair]

I hate to even mention this out of fear but I was even going to get in written in purple. 😱

I did mine in periwinkle. Don't really care if it irks my superiors...

When I have been in the ICU for 30+ hours and look like a member of the living dead, I will at least have pretty scroll on my wrinkled, ill-fitting coat.

 

[Blade28]

This sounds silly. Are there actually places that have this mentality? Please tell me you're being sarcastic.

Short white coats for all the G Surg residents here until their chief year. 👎

 

[APACHE3]

So what happens if I have my name on my scrub top? I know I have a few gimmees in the pixis machine, but I always liked the ER docs with the name on the scub tops..I thought it looked good. But I guess I should wait.. 😀

 

[CANES2006]

So what happens if I have my name on my scrub top? I know I have a few gimmees in the pixis machine, but I always liked the ER docs with the name on the scub tops..I thought it looked good. But I guess I should wait.. 😀

What?!! I've never heard of having your name on your scrub top. Sounds kind of dorky though. 😕

 

[Blade28]

So what happens if I have my name on my scrub top? I know I have a few gimmees in the pixis machine, but I always liked the ER docs with the name on the scub tops..I thought it looked good. But I guess I should wait.. 😀

I've seen that a few times for radiologists and ER attendings. That's it.

 

[APACHE3]

Ok,ok, it was just a quesion. I was an ER Tech as a premed, so I saw inscribed scrubs all the time. I'll see what my programs does. you know, it just gets tiring always wearing the white coat all the time and at least you'll stand out from the other 1000 ancillary staff on the ward that dress exactly like you. 😀 see ya

 

[Blade28]

I've noticed that among everyone in the hospital who wears scrubs, surgery residents tend to be the only ones who consistently tuck in their shirts.

That, and we're the ones carrying scalpels and hemoccult developer in our pockets. 🙂