Those of us who wear REAL scrubs change them in the locker room before operating, which is really the closest thing to a sterile environment you're going to find. We don't leave the OR between cases and if we do we put on new REAL scrubs. Those nurses on the units and in your doctor's offices that are wearing the Winnie the Pooh scrubs are really wearing filthy kiddie sheets sewn to fit them properly. Those aren't scrubs.

Your hands are just as dirty. Unless you've soaked them in alcohol based hand cleaner for 5-10 minutes.

Asclepius: Those nurses on the units and in your doctor's offices that are wearing the Winnie the Pooh scrubs are really wearing filthy kiddie sheets sewn to fit them properly. Those aren't scrubs.

My wife's working on her RN, so I'm really getting a go fark yourself.

Occam's Chainsaw: My wife's working on her RN, so I'm really getting a go fark yourself.

With an attitude like that she'll never fit in as an OR nurse. You know, they do the same thing.

Bring me pics of Sarah Chalke! (bites into giant turkey leg)

Since my most recent hospital visit, my head has been unusually itchy. Dandruff? Lice? I don't want to think about it.

Occam's Chainsaw: My wife's working on her RN, so I'm really getting a go fark yourself.

Now who could argue with that?

I like Scrubs, though I do recognize that there is no accounting for taste. There are far far shiatter shows out there IMHO.

I really don't know why Scrubs gets so much flack as a television show. It may not be the cream of the crop but it does have its moments.

/Do you see what you get Carla!
//Do you see what you get when you mess with the warrior!

MEXICANS!!!

An episode of some show once had them doing an operation while naked. Camera angles/props prevented audience from seeing anything. But the germs on the clothing was the reason for doing it.

Maybe it was St. Elsewhere, maybe not.

fark HOW have we not all DIED YET?

Here's a question for you betch, how come the doctors aren't getting sick if their clothes are so dirty?

Dominican!

A bit of an over-reaction on the author's part (they can KILL you!!!1!), but the basic gist is there. And don't forget the reverse effect - doctors, nurses (and don't forget us vets/vet techs) wear their scrubs all over town before they come to work, bringing whatever they're exposed to outside into their hospital.

Bottom line? Change in the hospital when you get there and before you leave.

BS. That show is awesome.

To answer Paduke:



Link hot like her.

Oh, and Judy Reyes would get touched, too.

One of my pet peeves is people wearing scrubs outside of the hospital. Either they're on their way out (in which case I don't want that contact) or on their way in (in which case the patients don't want that contact). They give the appearance of sterility when none exists. I'm not particularly happy about lab coats outside of the hospital either.

10 sec rule applies to pudding too: fark HOW have we not all DIED YET?

Here's a question for you betch, how come the doctors aren't getting sick if their clothes are so dirty?

Um, their skin protects them? They aren't already sick? Their immune systems aren't compromised by chemo, diabetes, or any other number of things!? wtf.

We're goin' to steeeeak nite, we're gonna eeeeat it rite

I always reckoned the scrubs were left at the hospital at the end of each shift to be laundered in blazin' hot germ-killin' water. Perhaps common sense doesn't apply to hospitals.

It's a wonder we've survived as a species.

I had C. Diff in October '07. Nearly died. Spent 11 days in the hospital.
Don't ever want it again. Ever.

/it's so bromantic

"Just like the show "

wtf, Scrubs is awesome! Go home and watch Two and a Half Men, subtard

ever since my step father contracted MRSA, and died, I've had real issue with seeing hospital staff of MCV walking the streets of Richmond in their branded and issued scrubs

Asclepius:

Wow, you're just as big of an egotistical douchenozzle as the other surgeons I've known. Get over yourself. A trained monkey could do your job.

I think a lot of people wear their Walmart scrubs out in public to show off "hey, I'm a nurse!" (or LPN or assistant of whatever sort) Speaking of, when the hell did Walmart start selling those? Why do they sell those? Is it because of all of those people going to those schools advertised on tv to become medical assistants or what?

Thank god they voted her off "How I met your mother".

The other Connor was cuter.

I see plently of hospital staff in scrubs every morning riding the subway to Mass General Hospital... that must be hygienic right?

GIS for the author of the WSJ article.

Beauty & brains, me likey!

BETSY MCCAUGHEY (new window)

Asclepius
Those of us who wear REAL scrubs change them in the locker room before operating, which is really the closest thing to a sterile environment you're going to find. We don't leave the OR between cases and if we do we put on new REAL scrubs. Those nurses on the units and in your doctor's offices that are wearing the Winnie the Pooh scrubs are really wearing filthy kiddie sheets sewn to fit them properly. Those aren't scrubs.

Your hands are just as dirty. Unless you've soaked them in alcohol based hand cleaner for 5-10 minutes.

How refreshing, a snooty surgeon. I'm sure your support staff loves you. On behalf of other health professionals (doctors, nurses, dentists, veterinarians, etc) who wear scrubs: kindly shove it.

I will say that while I try to be careful to change out of my scrubs when I leave or at least go straight home and change them before I go anywhere else, I'm guilty of the lab coat thing. I own two and have to wear them every day. They probably get washed once a week.

\btw, Scrubs is awesome

Paduke: Bring me pics of younger (2nd or 3rd season) Sarah Chalke!

FTFM

Last season and current Sarah are all skinny (in a weird way) and middle age-y

10 sec rule applies to pudding too: Here's a question for you betch, how come the doctors aren't getting sick if their clothes are so dirty?

Superbugs are smart. They know that if they kill the doctors, they can't spread as easily.

tiamet4: Asclepius
Those of us who wear REAL scrubs change them in the locker room before operating, which is really the closest thing to a sterile environment you're going to find. We don't leave the OR between cases and if we do we put on new REAL scrubs. Those nurses on the units and in your doctor's offices that are wearing the Winnie the Pooh scrubs are really wearing filthy kiddie sheets sewn to fit them properly. Those aren't scrubs.

Your hands are just as dirty. Unless you've soaked them in alcohol based hand cleaner for 5-10 minutes.

How refreshing, a snooty surgeon. I'm sure your support staff loves you. On behalf of other health professionals (doctors, nurses, dentists, veterinarians, etc) who wear scrubs: kindly shove it.

I will say that while I try to be careful to change out of my scrubs when I leave or at least go straight home and change them before I go anywhere else, I'm guilty of the lab coat thing. I own two and have to wear them every day. They probably get washed once a week.

\btw, Scrubs is awesome

Not to make a big deal about it, but he lists himself as a PA-C, so he's really just assisting a surgeon. He is the support staff. Not that there's anything wrong with that at all (except for the attitude, maybe).

Is it just that you generally have no sense of humour, or you can't stand Zach Braff for some reason? He's farking charming! Is it something personal? Who could not like Scrubs, and give me a good reason. I'll go as far to call it one of the best comedies ever.

Across the pond, a British study found that one-third of medical personnel did not launder their uniforms before coming to work.

Why do we want socialized medicine, again?

tiamet4: How refreshing, a snooty surgeon

I see you've not read my profile. Go fark yourself.

Farking Zardwarks:
Wow, you're just as big of an egotistical douchenozzle as the other surgeons I've known. Get over yourself. A trained monkey could do your job.



/hotlinky

It is nice when the hospital gives us scrubs to wear. Pretentious OR snobs (Asclepius and your REAL scrubs;-) do get to wear hospital provided scrubs - most of us on the floors have to provide our own scrubs - I have stolen most of mine from the OR. I sure hope everyone washes their scrubs after every use.

So go ahead and hug a nurse on the way to work -- just not after work.

/C. Diff sucks.
//so does MRSA
///so do hospitals

Asclepius
tiamet4: How refreshing, a snooty surgeon

I see you've not read my profile. Go fark yourself.

Sorry, I kind of assumed that with an ego that big, you'd have a job to match.

...But I've been disappointed before when comparing a man's measure of himself to the reality...

Ah dammit.

/in a hospital
//in scrubs
///day old
////sorry, world

As a medical healthcare student, I'm disgusted by the idea that there are hospitals where staff wear the same uniform day after day without washing it. Ugh.

ASPBonehead:
internet toughguy
/hotlinky

That's right beeeyotch. Don't forget it, either. Don't make me tell you which martial arts I claim to know!

Having worked a job where I was required to wear scrubs (and I had no patient contact whatsoever, just worked as a tech in a hospital), we were not allowed to change into our scrubs at work. We had to wear them outside of work. We were expected to show up in them, and there were no appropriate changing facilities. The one time I knew that someone changed once she got to our workplace (and was changed and ready to work before we had to clock in), she got in trouble with my boss for it. We had to buy and wash our own scrubs, and I am positive several coworkers did not launder them enough. Only those who worked in sterilization and in surgery were allowed to wear hospital supplied/laundered scrubs. I don't know if other places are like that, but scrub policies need some work.

cardiovascular: Pretentious OR snobs (Asclepius and your REAL scrubs;-)

I'm not pretentious at all, although I do appreciate scrubs you could eat off, I don't do surgery any more.

And I have to agree - hug a nurse, they're the most valuable members of the team if you ask me (just a lowly physician assistant) and I've relied on you all forever. C. Diff and MRSA can go to hell, unless you like flushing PICC lines.

:)

I acquired C. difficile after a total hip replacement in my 40s. Nothing like raging diarrhea to encourage you to learn to get out of your hosp bed FAST! Two weeks of meds 4 times a day that made me dizzy, nauseated and my mouth metallic/numb for hours finally got rid of it.

I had to wear scrubs once while hooking up a Pyxis in the OR. They were comfortable but a bit drafty.

Solty Dog: a bit drafty

That's the best part.

/wearing scrubs right now.
//pajamas

all i have to say is thank god my fiances scrubs are white and he bleaches them everynight!!! and i dont touch him til he throws them in the washer and takes a shower! woo-hoo no staff infections for me

Asclepius and his REAL scrubs are welcome to be present if I'm cut open, as I'm confident he won't infect me with germs from the busboy's poop-coated hands from where he had lunch.

Call me a dick if you like, but I don't see an ego problem with Asclepius, or anything close to it. I see a guy doing his job properly, and I think if you were under the knife you'd appreciate it.

Inconceivable!: /it's so bromantic

Dumbest show ever!