Scrubs in Public

[L.Jane]

He won't come home jyst to change, but he will change into civvies if he's already home and going out again. Drives me nuts because of the extra time and laundry.

Yeah the extra time drives me nuts too. Luckily he just packs up all the extra scrubs and takes them back to the hospital to be washed. No scrub laundry for me.

[hedixo01]

Funny you should mention it; I just wore scrubs in public to a baseball game yesterday. I was meeting my parents (they had my kids) after work. But I just work as a secretary, so I have little to no patient contact. My husband is an ER tech and he changes at work. Sometimes he'll even shower when he gets home if it's been especially gruesome. Once a week our shifts overlap and he won't even give me a hug sometimes. I imagine when he's finally a doctor he'll do much the same.

[peggyfromwastate]

Dh doesn't really wear them home, but he wears them all the time at the hospital. There is a push to make them wear their uniforms (when he's at Reed he has to) during clinic time. There's a push to make them wear their class Bs even-- pants, belt, shiny shoes, all sorts of little pins and ribbons, short sleeve shirt, undershirt, beret for outside only... He will wear his ACUs when he needs to wear a uniform, but it's always scrubs if he has a choice.

The only time he wears scrubs is if he's picking up meds in the pharmacy at the end of the day. Active duty in uniform go to the front of the line, and scrubs count as a uniform LOL.

He has a lot of scrubs in his trunk, but he just takes them to the hospital to be washed. He doesn't lounge around the house in them. He doesn't run errands in them either.

[poky]

I also make DH bring home small scrubs, they are waaaay better than sweats!!!! My sister, who is a lawyer, told me when I offered a pair to her that they reminded her too much of "prison clothes". I thought that was pretty funny. They may be the same texture but they are not usually bright day-glo orange...

I saw orange scrubs for the first time the other day! Apparently the exact color of scrubs that you can wear is strictly regulated by function at the clinic, and vendors get orange. Saw two sets go by in the cafeteria. From what I've herad you're not supposed to wear the "OR" colored scrubs (green, I think?) off campus, but most other colors are fine. We see people wandering around in scrubs in grocery stores pretty frequently. Just went to goodwill yesterday and they had a whole rack of scrubs, even.

[Pollyanna]

Dh wears them when he is on L & D. For clinic he wears nice pants, dress shirt, and a tie. If he wears them home he only wears clean ones and almost always changes before he goes out anywhere. He feels like he is advertising that he's a "dawktor" by wearing them out so he avoids it at all costs.

[diggitydot]

When DH had a SLAP repair on his shoulder done a few months ago he went in and grabbed a pair if scrub pants to wear under the gown during surgery.

His hospital also has strict rules governing which jobs wear which colors, except docs. They can wear whatever color they like.

[Thirteen]

Poky, we're color regulated too. DH must wear "periwinkle."
When I asked him if that was technically blue, he said no.
Nurses wear "robin's egg," and volunteers wear "navy."
...isn't it all blue?

[mommax3]

I should clarify that DH leaves his dirty scrubs at the hospital and changes into fresh ones before leaving L&D or the OR, and he only wears scrubs in public when he is on call, either two or three days/week. He just finds it easier and faster to change from scrubs to scrubs rather than having to worry about actual clothes. The downside is that when he does wear actual clothes, it is common for him to wear the same ones all week because he only wears them for an hour or two. It's like Groundhog Day, wardrobe-wise. Sure makes his laundry easy, though! He doesn't like advertising he's a doctor, but I told him once that it is better people know he is a doctor than think he is an uninvolved dad, since he misses/comes late/leaves in the middle/arrives separately from me to most of the boys' stuff.

Lol. The scrubs at DH's hospital are color coded by SIZE! I have always found that so cruel.
DH and most of his co-residents buy their own personalized scrubs in whatever color they choose. He never wears them outside the hospital except in the car on the way to/from work. He hates to look like a dawkter especially one that can be identified by name and department!

[Vanquisher]

Oh that's heinous? By size?? Gawwwd. "Hey everyone, I'm a 6x. Yes, that's right the truly rare magenta that you only see on me and on the scrub racks. As if I wasn't a big enough target for your enviois stares, we all know who truly has the fattest ass this side of Timbuktu."


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[SuzySunshine]

They are also color coded here by department which I thought was brilliant as a new mom in the L&D - they specifically tell you that only people in the teal scrubs should ever have contact with you or your baby. DH wears scrubs on OR days at work but wears a suit and tie on clinic days, so on OR days he just wears jeans and a polo into the hospital and changes when he gets there.

[Phoebe]

DH wears scrubs to and from work. If he has to run errands or meet us for dinner are the only times he wears them outside of the hospital.

[scarlett09]

DH wears scrubs on when he is on-call, night float, or working in the PICU/NICU/ED. The rest of the time - on the floors, on electives, and in his weekly continuity clinic, he wears a dress shirt, tie and slacks. So time in scrubs vs. time in regular clothes is split pretty evenly.

DH has a supply of scrubs that he wears to the local big people hospital for the NICU rotations and to the kiddo hospital for all of the other shifts. They don't really care what color scrubs you wear at either place. The university hospital does care what color scrubs you wear and they supply them for you. He isn't supposed to take them out of the hospital, but he usually swipes 2-3 pairs at the beginning of the rotation and brings them home to wear (and launder) until the rotation is over.

So when he does wear them, it is when he gets dressed in the morning, then all day there, and then back home again, where they usually come off pretty quickly. He has run an errand or two in them and gone out to breakfast post-call a few times with some peeps, but for the most part it's to the hospital and back home again.

[alison]

Eeeeeks! By size?!
Stanford's are blue, and you'd see people all over town in them, since they didn't seem to have a rule for scrub-wearing in public. I think they're gross. There are so many bodily fluids that dh comes in contact with. Euuuuugggghhhh!

[lovelight]

DH will NOT wear scrubs out in public. He does wear them to and from the hospital though. I keep telling him to leave them there so THEY can do the laundry instead of us, but he insists it's much easier to have a stockpile of scrubs at home. It drives him crazy to see people out in scrubs for some reason though. Slight hijack: What about wearing white coats to stores? That just burns him up when he sees somebody at the grocery store wearing a white coat.