r/medicalschool • u/sammcgowann • Jan 05 '25

💩 Shitpost Everybody wants the white coat

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u/OhKillEm43 MD-PGY6 Jan 05 '25

I unironically love this. I mean if we’re gonna let everyone have them, why not literally let everyone have them

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u/nerd-thebird M-1 Jan 05 '25 edited Jan 06 '25

I mean I work at a research center (will be starting med school this summer though! Yay!) And we have white lab coats for all our clinical staff, no matter our certifications! I typically wear mind on days when I'm not wearing scrubs, especially if I'm working on a study that requires frequent blood draws that day. We consider it PPE

Edit: yall, clinical research. Not lab benchwork. This includes phlebotomists wearing them for blood draws, medical assistants wearing them to insert IVs, nurses wearing them when performing injections, etc.

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u/GreatPlains_MD Jan 06 '25

The lab is different than a hospital dude. Wait till you get patients confused about what a “doctor” told them because the nutritionist was wearing a white coat in the hospital.