Just being nosy

[v-girl]

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Sorry. It's sideways and I am too tired to try to make it upright. But you can still admire the car.

[BonBon]

DH wears black, but they have a choice between that, green, and blue. So not specialty specific here either.

[poky]

Anyone know which specialties typically wear black scrubs? DH said ge though radiology, maybe adult ER. I guessed plastic surgery. The guy (a dad at the ballet studio) drives a viper. People actually stopped to take pics of the car. I took one from my spot at the front desk. LOL

So, since I didn't get the chance to ask, what do you think he does? Because I had nothing else to do but speculate with a couple other ballet moms. Ha ha ha!

At Madison, DH told me the ER residents get issued black scrubs. I'm guessing it varies by location, and it may just be a personal preference if whatever institution he's at doesn't care about your scrubs color.

[peggyfromwastate]

I don't think there are different colors at dhs hospital really. No pattern I can tell.

If someone wants a viper that badly, they can get one on any surgeons salary. It's just like a mortgage... Or college tuition. Around here I see lots of ppl driving Lexuses and acuras to and from middle class jobs. The only high end sports car I've seen locally (can't remember what it was but dh would lol- maybe a mazerhati?) was driven by a twenty something girl. Who knows!!

[ladymoreta]

Yeah, there's an anesthesiology group here that is tiny, so they work a ton, but at least two of the guys drive luxury sportscars. One of them spent his first few years after residency opening a couple restaurants in addition to working, so he has those for additional income. He's not married, obviously.

[Deebs]

This makes me laugh. DH's last three hospitals have let him choose, but the hospitals that have required them have used what we call "Ogar" green in the ED. DH does have a few pairs of black scrubs, and I prefer them - they hide blood spatters.

[Cinderella]

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Sorry. It's sideways and I am too tired to try to make it upright. But you can still admire the car.

Sideways it looks like it's driving on walls. Spiderman's car!

[MarissaNicole]

Deebs - do you wash them in hot or cold water? I feel like scrubs should be washed in the HOTTEST possible water, but I worry about the black fading.

[DCJenn]

You wash the scrubs? Doesn't the hospital do that? I don't think I've ever seen anything other than light green at the military hospitals but then again I haven't been looking and most people I see are in uniforms, not scrubs.

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[MarissaNicole]

They'll wash the blue green ones as they are hospital property, but I don't think they wash the black ones because they are embroidered with DH's name. I just assumed its because they just wash, not keep track of personal scrubs.
And I tend to wash the blue green scrubs cuz I'm a sucker.

The 2 hospitals DH currently works at have not provided scrubs. He wears navy ones that he bought in residency because be didn't like the hospital issued ones. Some of the ER docs wear regular pants with a scrub top and I'm trying to discourage DH from doing the same right now.

Of all the hospitals that DH has worked in none has washed scrubs. I used to be picky about handling and washing them but now they just go in with the rest of our laundry to be honest.

[moonlight]

I guess we are the oddball program/hospital. DH's hospital is extremely color specific when it comes to EVERYTHING. At our location black scrubs mean you work in the Heart Center part of the hospital. That would be all nurses, fellows and attendings. It's insane how they are about the colors of scrubs here. Everyone from the techs, students, residents and attendings have a set color. And like i said it also has to do with what department you are working in. DH wears the same color as general surgery because his program didn't bother with selecting a color to stick to.

[scarlett09]

No black scrubs here. I think that black scrubs at a kiddo hospital would freak the patients out. Not sure if there are black scrubs at the big people hospitals DH rotates through, but having been in and around those hospitals, I recall a lot of colors, but not black.

As for washing scrubs, it all depends on where he's rotating through. He generally puts them in a load with the shorts and t-shirts he wears underneath. The white coat is always nasty - I have to remember to wash it and use lots of stain remover, ewwwww.

That car is sweet! I always feel like those cars are best in warm, somewhat dry climates. No way you could really enjoy driving it in the Northeast, lol.

[SuzySunshine]

I guess we are the oddball program/hospital. DH's hospital is extremely color specific when it comes to EVERYTHING. At our location black scrubs mean you work in the Heart Center part of the hospital. That would be all nurses, fellows and attendings. It's insane how they are about the colors of scrubs here. Everyone from the techs, students, residents and attendings have a set color. And like i said it also has to do with what department you are working in. DH wears the same color as general surgery because his program didn't bother with selecting a color to stick to.

That is not odd, in Roch it was the same way. Except for surgeons, they all wore the regular blue regardless of department but EVERYONE else wore the color of their department. When you took your prenatal classes they made sure you were very clear on what color the nurse scrubs were so that you would never give your baby to an unauthorized color.

[Deebs]

For all of DH's scrubs, I wash them in hot (I have a sanitizing cycle) by themselves, with color safe bleach. DH has recently changed the scrubs he wears to maximize his pockets, without going to pants (regular clothing is the trend in many EDs right now, I guess, but it grosses me out). He wears navy, black, or blue, and none of them have faded. They are from Aviator Scrubs, and they are much nicer than the scrubs he's had previously. I can them "scrants" or "scargos" because of the pockets.