White Coat Questions

[araytb]

Hey everybody! This is more of a fashion advice post than anything haha. I'm purchasing an On Call brand (http://medicalcoats.com/index.php?route=product/category&path=60_66) white coat cause my hospital issues really cheap frumpy ones to its practitioners. I had the following questions:

• I know students traditionally wear short consultation white jackets and practitioners who already graduated wear longer white coats. Is there any "white coat etiquette" to differenciate which practitioners wear knee-length coats and which ones wear 3/4 length (i guess "medium length") white coats?
• Do men get the belt option or is that usually only worn by women?

Thanks!

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[Amazingmuzmo]

Np?

 

[Winged Scapula]

I suggest you check with your future pharmacist colleagues and see what the protocol is at your hospital.

I have seen pharmacists wear short student consult coats and the three-quarter and longer length as well. There's also the option to not wear a coat at all.

 

[swamprat]

Yeah man don't worry about the white coat, wear the cheap one your school provides. It gets dirty regardless, you prob can only wear a short white coat b/c of school policy or something and nurses, techs etc all wear white coats, its far from the traditional white coat = physician that you may be thinking of.

 

[shibby1111]

even premed students in organic chemistry lab wear white coats. i can't stand it. i wish i could look at a long white coat like a black belt, airline pilot hat, or a judge's robe. i can't stand it when people wear a traditional symbol of dedication, responsibility, and accomplishment before they've earned it.

 

[Amazingmuzmo]

even premed students in organic chemistry lab wear white coats. i can't stand it. i wish i could look at a long white coat like a black belt, airline pilot hat, or a judge's robe. i can't stand it when people wear a traditional symbol of dedication, responsibility, and accomplishment before they've earned it.

Who give a **** anyway. People in research laboratories get to wear long white coats. Literally people that may not even have a college education. Get over it.

 

[harrypotter000]

even premed students in organic chemistry lab wear white coats. i can't stand it. i wish i could look at a long white coat like a black belt, airline pilot hat, or a judge's robe. i can't stand it when people wear a traditional symbol of dedication, responsibility, and accomplishment before they've earned it.

Umm...lab scientists began wearing white coats long before physicians ever did. Its meant to protect your skin and clothes from chemicals. We were required to wear them in all wet labs in my undergrad.

 

[ComradeDoktor]

even premed students in organic chemistry lab wear white coats. i can't stand it. i wish i could look at a long white coat like a black belt, airline pilot hat, or a judge's robe. i can't stand it when people wear a traditional symbol of dedication, responsibility, and accomplishment before they've earned it.

So you'd prefer if it those premeds got toxic chemicals all over their street clothes, then went back to cafeterias, public bathrooms, or back to their dorms in those clothes. Nice....

 

[shibby1111]

i am sorry. i meant wearing it as a symbol rather than for practical purposes. i come from lab research background in which i wore a lab coat on a daily basis. we were actually required to and some people thought i was a pharmacist. i understand the purpose of a lab coat. i am talking about a select few people (NOT YOU GUYS) who wear a white coat for no other reason but to create that white coat doctor image...its the same as that guy from high school who wore camouflage with the army haircut to make people think he was in the army rather than wearing camouflage for the purpose of concealing himself in the wilderness.

 

[shibby1111]

my point is i am unimpressed by people who use a white coat for the purpose of making others think they are a doctor. or wearing a pilot's hat to make people think they are a pilot. or carrying a motorcycle helmet around to make people think they can ride a motorcycle when they can't.

 

[Heimskringla]

my point is i am unimpressed by people who use a white coat for the purpose of making others think they are a doctor. or wearing a pilot's hat to make people think they are a pilot. or carrying a motorcycle helmet around to make people think they can ride a motorcycle when they can't.

I'm an RRT. I have family members who've been in RT since it was Inhalation Therapy. We've always worn 3/4 length or calf length white coats as far as I know, at least since the 80's.

I did feel like a fraud wearing a long white coat as a student in clinicals, but we were explicitly forbidden from wearing short coats so we didn't get confused with medical students.

I don't see how confusing me with an attending was any better. I got confused for an ortho attending specifically about a dozen times as an RT student. I wonder if that says something about my personality?

 

[Instatewaiter]

Hey everybody! This is more of a fashion advice post than anything haha. I'm purchasing an On Call brand (http://medicalcoats.com/index.php?route=product/category&path=60_66) white coat cause my hospital issues really cheap frumpy ones to its practitioners. I had the following questions:

• I know students traditionally wear short consultation white jackets and practitioners who already graduated wear longer white coats. Is there any "white coat etiquette" to differenciate which practitioners wear knee-length coats and which ones wear 3/4 length (i guess "medium length") white coats?
• Do men get the belt option or is that usually only worn by women?

Thanks!

I mean... who uses the term "practitioner?"

 

[D elegans]

The short white coat is like virginity: at first it seems like something noble, but once you find out what it's like to have it, you want to get rid of it as fast as possible

 

[Siggy]

I got confused for an ortho attending specifically about a dozen times as an RT student. I wonder if that says something about my personality?

Strong as an ox, and twice as smart?

You're Step 1 + Bench press would be > 500?

If we wanted to hide $100 from you, all we'd need to do is put it in a textbook?

/Specialty jokes are fun...

 

[Instatewaiter]

Strong as an ox, and twice as smart?

You're Step 1 + Bench press would be > 500?

If we wanted to hide $100 from you, all we'd need to do is put it in a textbook?

/Specialty jokes are fun...

I think it might be a smidge ironic that you make fun of ortho and in the next sentence look like a complete *****.

 

[Heimskringla]

I think it might be a smidge ironic that you make fun of ortho and in the next sentence look like a complete *****.

I still laughed.

I don't know what I would do without the extra pockets, though. I don't know how else I'm supposed to carry all that Albuterol that certain new residents keep ordering for patients with no pulmonary history or current evidence of bronchospasm. 😛

 

[rayovac]

The short white coat is like virginity: at first it seems like something noble, but once you find out what it's like to have it, you want to get rid of it as fast as possible

^this. I hate having to wear it.

 

[Siggy]

I think it might be a smidge ironic that you make fun of ortho and in the next sentence look like a complete *****.

most places give you UTD for free if you are on a system computer... so no need to pay money. Download epocrates for free as well... it's good

People in rock houses shouldn't throw glass... or something like that.


/Intentional cliche mangling was intentional.