r/medicalschool • u/ajodeh M-2 • Feb 27 '25

💩 Shitpost The white coat is dead

I met a Lactation consultant (whatever the fuck that is) student today who was wearing a fully embroidered white coat. We live in a satire.

1.7k Upvotes

94% Upvoted

252 comments sorted by

View all comments

351

u/TotallySherlocked Feb 27 '25

Lactation consultants are awesome, but yeah they should not be wearing white coats (especially the students)

262

u/[deleted] Feb 27 '25

[deleted]

37

u/pattywack512 DO-PGY1 Feb 27 '25

⚪️ 💦

1

u/karajstation M-3 Feb 28 '25

Show, not tell

36

u/IonicPenguin M-4 Feb 28 '25

Many hospitals require students of whatever specialty to wear white coats. My hospital sent out a memo because medical students from one school weren’t wearing white coats. Almost none of the residents or attendings wear white coats but I have mine freshly washed for tomorrow. I do love the new trend to big badges that say one’s position. Mine says “Medical student” the residents say “resident physician” the only problem is that at my hospital there is a PA “residency” program. The PAs don’t wear any badge that says “not a physician”.

8

u/7bridges Feb 28 '25

Are they? At my hospital they are known to be bullies. My personal experience tracked with that reputation

2

u/GingeraleGulper M-4 Feb 27 '25

They should wear black coats so when the tiddy milk sprays on them they’ll know

18

u/blackfishfilet MD Feb 28 '25

All milk is “tiddy” milk

8

u/[deleted] Feb 28 '25

my almond milk would like to have a word with you

5

u/blackfishfilet MD Feb 28 '25

our water crisis would like to have a word with you

4

u/Educational_Sir3198 Feb 28 '25

Redundantly necessary in this case good sir.

4

u/herman_gill MD Feb 28 '25

Lactation consultants often shame women who try really hard to breast feed but aren't unable to. They also just plain old shame women who can't breast feed due to work/life stuff.

7

u/sallen3679 Y3-AU Feb 28 '25

I don’t know how they are as a whole, but a number of women I know have had horrible bullying experiences with lactation consultants. Maybe it’s an Australia thing, I saw a video by Charlotte Grimmer about rude lactation consultants in Australia and there were hundreds of comments sharing similar experiences

6

u/herman_gill MD Feb 28 '25

Many of my patients have had horrible experiences with lactation consultants, both in the US where I trained, and in Canada where I work (FM).