My assistant is wearing military-camo pattern scrubs today.

[Aristus]

When he walked into the room to give me my schedule for the day, I looked around, puzzled, and said: "Who did that? Who is that? Where are you?"

He laughed.

It's Friday. We're gonna need a sense of humor to get through the day...

[malthaussen]

1. Because noncombatants need to hide.

That's not the stupidest thing I ever heard of, but it's on the short list.

-- Mal

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. If anyone has a sense of humor about this sort of thing, it's you, my dear Aristus!

I hope your day goes smoothly and well...

[mnhtnbb]

3. What is it with the cutsie pie scrubs?

When I went in for my annual physical the doc's RN was wearing a top that had
ice cream cones printed all over it! Egads! I asked her how she could not
be thinking of ice cream all day. Maybe she needs to...she's rather thin...
and a cancer survivor of several years. Still, I really didn't need to be looking
at ice cream cones, myself!

[geardaddy]

7. I can see that with pediatrics nurses and doctors

but for adults, that's weird.

[mnhtnbb]

18. Really. Very appropriate and colorful for kids.

There are designer scrubs with more adult prints--and better fitted.
There's no reason to wear boxy, frumpy tops.

[magical thyme]

16. I love my cute scrubs. I have winnie the pooh scrubs

and I have some deep teal blue with owls and moons and stars scrubs. They make me happy.

[Aristus]

17. I think the move to scrubs in the medical profession is a good idea.

I remember watching Julie London as Nurse Dixie McCall in Emergency! when I was a kid. She looked gorgeous in her starched white nurse's uniform and cap. But those garments are alarmingly impractical for working in hands-on medicine. I don't know how comfortable they might have been, either.

As a PA, I wear a shirt and tie and part of my clinic outfit. On the rare occasions when I've pulled hospital call, however, I wear the issue hospital scrubs. Comfy and you don't care about getting blood and other bodily effluvia on it.

If an allied health professional wants to wear 'cute' scrubs, I'm all for it...

[magical thyme]

19. I wear my lab coat over my scrubs so they won't get dirty

They're only visible when I'm on break. But I know they're there.

[Throd]

4. Keep pretending you can't see him. Act surprised by his presence.

[elleng]

5. We used to call it 'casual Friday!'

[In_The_Wind]

6. Let's think about this, shall we ...

Maybe he thought that with 20 patients on your schedule today you might feel like having something to hide behind.

[Aristus]

8. Help!

I'm already up to 11 patients for the morning. And no end in sight...

[In_The_Wind]

9. If I was there

I would be happy to help you anyway I could [img][/img]

[Aristus]

10. Put a cool towel on my forehead, fan me, and tell me everything's going to be all right...

[In_The_Wind]

11. No problem

[Aristus]

12. Thank you...

[In_The_Wind]

13. Are you going to nap through your lunch?

It's almost Friday night!

[Aristus]

14. No.

I'm at our mainstream clinic today. I'm sharing an office with my supervising physician, and a new ARNP. It's not possible to shut off the lights and close the blinds, put my feet up and

I'll just have to tough it out...

[Ikonoklast]

15. Well, if one of your patients happens to be a Scotsman wearing a kilt,

the end will invariably come into sight.