The point of wearing light-colored scrubs is to make body fluids easy to see so you know when to change them.
But, in our ever more childish society where My Favorite Color logic is becoming dominant, woke doctors are switching to black scrubs.
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Green scrubs became common for surgeons because the reflection of surgical lights off of white scrubs caused too much eye strain, especially during long operations. But yeah, dark colors aren’t a good idea.
What do you call “tone deaf” when it relates to optics?
https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/aug/17/mark-and-patricia-mccloskey-st-louis-couple-suppor/
People, I know that the Dems are given over to bat-shyte cray-cray, but the Republicans are so stupid that they really don’t deserve to survive as a party.
Remember they worked hard for decades to ensure that the USA was flooded with third-world immigrants. Enabling their own demise, as well as that of the nation as a whole. Good riddance.
So we’ve reached crazy years and clown world yay.
But a price must be paid.
And paid; and paid; and paid…
There are a lot of black face masks around now too. Have things reversed from the old Westerns, where the bad guys wore black hats, and the good guys wore white ones? (How true was that, anyway? All I remember from film class was when James Dean wore red in Rebel Without a Cause.)
Black is a standard fashion color, always ubiquitous in places like New York City and Paris. It looks good. White is difficult, for the very reason Steve alluded to: it shows everything. Doctors and nurses in black might look good, but they also can carry around icky, infectious stuff without knowing it.
Privilege Update. Kim Foxx caught lying outright. Jussie still free and living it up, MSM demanding that his sister gets her own show.
https://mol.im/a/8636075
Not a single one of these people is being brought to justice.
I’ve always preferred black sneakers because they hide the dirt.
Remember, we are in The Pandemic, and during The Pandemic public health needs to take a back seat to virtue signaling. For your health!
Also, white anything can be bleached.
Why not catch and release back to where they came from?
Nothing spells “decline and fall” like physicians dressing as undertakers.
It won’t be long before blackface is okay again.
Yeah, that’s the last thing I say as I’m going under: “Damn you look good in black! Can we get in one more ‘fore I get tranzed?”
Nothing wrong in fighting White Supremacists and Racism.
I hope November election will end all the stupid things like Borders, Racism, QAnon and White Supremacy.
Conservatives, we are coming for you, we will burn it down and build it up again, a few years ago I would have thought of making an alliance with Conservatives but they are hopeless and we are determined to decimate you, Both Literally and Figuratively.
At least, Gen , and Millenial whites have realized that White majority is not good for the country and the protests in Portland and Seattle are the proof that Whites will be defeated thoroughly from everywhere possible by all means necessary.
I would have gone with Blackshirts….
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackshirts
I always wear black face to BLM riots.
Is that one guy a conehead?
Lots of doctors and nurses already wear dark blue or maroon scrubs that conceal stains. It’s the white lab coats that are designed for stain visibility. But the white coats aren’t worn for practical reasons but just as a uniform for doctors for signalling. They typically wear the white coats over professional clothing like business suits.
I’m not a fan of the scrubs. They look unprofessional and undignified, and you often can’t tell who’s a doctor and who’s a nurse (besides the obvious tells e.g. overweight black woman in scrubs is typically a nurse). Instead of sloppy looking scrubs, doctors should wear more formal looking attire.
In the Victorian era, before Lister and sterilization, the sign of a good doctor and surgeon was one with rolled up sleeves and hands and arms stained with blood and guts. People thought it signaled a doctor who knew what he was doing and wasn’t afraid to take charge and get his hands dirty. Kind of like how we imagine a good auto mechanic today as a tough guy covered in grease and engine oil.
They changed color of their scrubs, not their coats (as you say in the headline)
It’s 89 degrees at 7:26 p.m. in central Orange County. That’s very rare and quite miserable. My 14000 BTU portable air conditioner can’t keep up.
We were in Encinitas yesterday, and the Pacific ocean could not cool us down. It’s really hot.
Wearing black is stupid. Black fabric absorbs heat. It’s like self flagellation. Poorly timed article in a heat wave of epic proportions right now and threatened blackouts by Yoga Pants governor gruesome.
White is the color you want. That’s why they always painted race car headers flat white in the 1960’s. It diffuses heat to cool the cylinder heads, especially valves and gaskets. Flat black is what you paint the headers when they run too cold and want to warm them up. No light source needed.
The color, without light, can determine the temperature. Never get medical attention by a woketard in a black coat. They are so disconnected, that they want us to self-immolate in flat blackness.
But hey, Gov. Whitard is rocking the dominatrix black leather coat tonight at the convention, but she’s a cow. Perhaps you agree.
Doctors are burning down an unprecedented store of credibility. If you had told me ten years ago that people would come to think of doctors as idiots I would not have believed it.
>oh but you would see a doctor if you were sick
Dude, remember what country I live in, last time I saw a doctor was years ago, my employer insisted and paid for it, and it wasn’t a doctor anyway, it was a nurse.
OT, for the archives, re elite universities accepting funny people:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_R._Schwab
»Charles Robert Schwab (born July 29, 1937) is an American investor, and financial executive. …
Schwab graduated from Stanford University in 1959 with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics. In 1961, he graduated from Stanford Graduate School of Business with a Master of Business Administration….
Schwab is dyslexic, but was unaware of it until the age of 40, when he learned his son is also dyslexic.«
He seems very capable and smart, yet funny business.
Why don’t they ditch their belts, too, and wear their trousers halfway down their arses? That may make some patients feel more comfortable.
Bedside manors: let’s reevaluate dat sh*t.
But one cannot help but be heaterned by the recent outpouring of popular support for the Bureau of Land Management. By golly, folks across this great land are expressing their support by spray-painting BLM on every wall, window and plywood-covered storefront. What a great and strong nation we are. We need to board up our shop windows, lest they be smashed by mobs. What a wonderful recipe for a peaceful society.
The scrubs, or the fluids?
(Yes, if Kurt Vonnegut could sell Saabs on Cape Cod, George W Bush can certainly lube Volvos in Savannah.)
Wow can’t believe the ne plus ultra of sociopathic status climbers support black lives matter. Who could have predicted this?
Misleading title – I thought doctors were losing their … privilege.
This is about what color scrub suit you wear. No one cares. (Sure there might be some hospitals that differentiate between OR and floor wear.)
When I read your title, I said to myself “Long coats, or short coats?” Interns and med students wear short coats. Used to be that even residents wore short coats (now, they often wear a medium-length white coat. The long white coat is the main status symbol (besides a Porsche, or course) of the attending physician in his prime.
The first thing a medical student does in med school is participate in the “white coat” ceremony, in which a distinguished physician, sometimes the student’s father, presents the student with a short white coat.
Until the early 20th century, medical students and pathologists wore black coats, out of respect for the dead.
Wrong. If my doctor engaged in this behavior, I would not only be pissed off about his/her arrogance in explicitly supporting what I can justify as a domestic terrorist organizaton fueled by communist intent, it would provoke me into questioning his/her judgement.
Additionally, does someone who shares those beliefs, and has been admitted into a hospital for say, a heart attack, really need to awaken to overt and passive-aggressive political discourse?
“Good morning! That was quite a scare last night! I’m Dr. Schwartz, and as you can see, black lives matter! How are we feeling today?”
I wish the nurses would go back to wearing white uniforms along with the traditional hat.
At the hospital my elderly parents use the nurses choose their own scrubs and most look like they’re wearing pajamas. The cleaning staff look more professional.
A most ridiculous sight is those folks who wear scrubs on airline voyages. I doubt they’re all that sterile anymore upon landing!
…whom they often made that way.
To say “black scrubs” is to promote racist imagery.
That should be “dark colored scrubs.”
No, wait. That’s also racist imagery.
Doctors dressed in black will scare the crap out of patients — especially highly superstitious blacks. Most people associate the color with funerals and undertakers.
This has been studied. Patients prefer that their docs wear white coats.
https://www.physiciansweekly.com/patients-prefer-doctors-who-wear-white-coats/
A fun study in China I read about…nurses dressed in flight-attendant uniforms… not a rigorous study as to outcomes. All I can say is that it would perk me up.
Colorblind
(tone =pitch = frequency = color; all measured in Hertz)
Tiny, how many sock puppets do you have?
They may not realize it, but all businesses (except medical/dental) where workers wear scrubs will end up bankrupt. No one wants to be reminded that if you use that service, you may get infected and end up dead. Airlines are operating at 30-40% of capacity and will be in bankruptcy by year end. Boeing and Airbus in a year or two.
In Western cultures, black is the color of death. Maybe that’s one good reason why doctors and nurses shouldn’t wear it.
But I’m sure pretty soon medicos will be wearing scrubs and masks with skulls on them. Skull iconography seems really popular now. Another sign of our society’s rot.
He always has a few in the wash, because they come in handy.
Short answer: those Alabama docs (somebody should dox ’em) should burn hotter and longer than “Dr.” Josef Mengele.
In the event the following is not already in the que:
whatever
On the other hand, Black Shorts just don’t seem to work….
—Bertie Wooster in The Code of the Woosters (1938)
Updating a short “classic”:
https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/todays-isms_william-ebenstein/947046/item/37747819/?mkwid=%7cdc&pcrid=448920730758&pkw=&pmt=&slid=&plc=&pgrid=101664577142&ptaid=pla-926313479229&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIrofDuvmj6wIVTtbACh0R4wSZEAQYAiABEgKMmvD_BwE#isbn=0139244158&idiq=37747819
– the current most “precious” of “bodily fluids” is, of course, black ….
Also see: How I Learned To Stop Worrying About STDs and Love the …..
It used to take a bit longer for political movements to degenerate into womanly costume/accessorizing contests — I blame, as always, The Internet. Right now my F’book feed is clogged with people I thought I knew fairly well, experiencing some kind of psychotic strain over the installation/removal of blue post-boxes (or it could be performative mental illness, which I guess is effectively the same thing). A big challenge for the next generation of politicians is redirecting the NPC energy somewhere else than the panopticon sluices it, i.e. toward the most sensational, most inane, object-oriented outlets. They still do this even though they know it’s being permanently recorded.
I think even if Biden wins and the Democrats win the Senate you will find there are lots of American white conservatives whose lives and opinions will remain pretty much the same as they are today. The Reaganites didn’t get rid of the liberal Democrats a generation ago, either, when they were in power.
You are also not taking into account how the American elite of both parties conspire to get their own way. What are your plans for defeating them?
Your apparently visceral anti-White sentiments may be common among people like you but they always strike me as unconvincing. Maybe I don’t see enough White people giving up their own White privilege or that of their descendants. I keep seeing them try to get all the advantages in life that they can in areas they really care about, like housing and education.
No, they should wear nurse uniforms from porn.
You’re saying it’s a bad idea to invite the McCloskeys to the RNC?
I think someone should point out that white people are not literally white, nor are black people black.
It’s suicidal. Yes, the optics. Another unforced error and a gift to Democrat propagandists. Ask yourself this: are the Rs going to gain any votes through a stunt like this, which they didn’t already have in the bag? Specifically, in swing states?
IDK, I think pure jet black probably shows off dirt, stains, and other contaminants about as well as white does. Of course, it will also make your doc. look like he is a ninja or antifa member.
Sure. Like the CHAZ in Seattle. The progtards were in charge of their own “autonomous zone” for, like, three weeks. In that time, they set up borders, formed a police/military, and started shooting random (black) people.
Burning stuff down, you can handle (if cucked politicians let you). Building anything up, not so much.
White people who vote Democrat are criminally insane.
On the bright side, it makes it easy to ID the docs and techs you want to avoid.
The fact that the McCloskeys are facing charges for defending their home from a mob-that needs to be hammered home over and over again by the RNC, in my opinion. I just do not see many homeowners thinking, “Gee, I’d totally support a BLM mob that wanted to kill me and loot/burn down my house!” Even progressives get really touchy about their homes- as Mayor Durkan in Seattle showed.
Maybe they are.
I disagree. In an office setting, there is no excuse for anyone to wear scrubs because in the event you need to do a small procedure, you can put on disposable isolation gowns.
However, in the hospital, scrubs are incredibly practical for eveyone. It’s easy to distinguish people by job if the hospital makes rules about scrub color/design. The only thing stopping this in most places is that female staff complain about not having the option to choose their own, but that should be ignored.
The idea that it’s important for hospital staff to wear attractive “professional” clothes is ridiculous–like complaining that modern combat fatigues don’t have the flair and dignity of old Hussar uniforms.
What country do you live in?
If you are going to decimate conservatives literally why bother with the figuratively?
What do you expect from a 3 who thinks she’s Ilsa, She-wolf of the SS?
And White people who support Black Lives Matter, the NBA/NFL and Hollywood are all insane.
He’s from France.
You can’t explain that to anyone under 40 y/o, as he would literally not know what literally means.
Looks to be Morticia’s demented sister. Makes rest of Addams’ family look like a Norman Rockwell painting.
Trouble is, their home wasn’t actually under attack. Other trouble is: optics. As mentioned above. Politics isn’t really much about facts anyway. That rich, fat white couple brandishing firearms against “poor people seeking racial justice” came right out of Democrat Central Casting. Again, facts are irrelevant.
Dirty Rotten Sunzabitchez.
But yeah.
You’re an idiot. Don’t let anyone tell you different.
These imbeciles should be required to view the autopsy photos of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom.
You could not be more wrong. Overweight black women in scrubs typically are hospital janitors and housekeepers.
IIRC, the McCloskeys were Hillary-supporters and Democrat-donors. i.e. the very sort of elite liberals who were cheering on BLM while it was rampaging though black and working class white neighborhoods.
Wodehouse’s jabs at Oswald Mosley as “Roderick Spode” are less amusing when one considers how much better off the UK–and for that matter, all of the West–would be had his warnings regarding multiculturalism been heeded.
You take me too seriously. Fortunately, I don’t take you seriously at all.
I doubt many people even read your comments.
You, Reg Blabber, and Achmed E. Doucheman have combined for almost 10,000 comments JUST in 2020. Jabbering old women. This site needs an age max cut-off.
That’s too funny – I’m reminded of Orwell’s essay “How The Poor Die” in which he mentions that Victorian literature oftentimes reflected the fear people had of doctors by giving the doctors names like “Carver “, Fillgrave”, et al.
Marx/Rothschild communism was ALWAYS a scam based on English author from the 16th century Sir Thomas More in his book,’Utopia’. If these medical personnel going black scrubs are as incompetent socially as they are tending to a benign virus, they should go home and try to get a job at Burger King and start over. When their mothers told them they were smart, good looking, safe, and perfect, they were lying..
Prof, no one thinks of you at all.
Apparently Dale Earnhardt Sr and Johnny Cash were way ahead of their time.
Or priest, or undertaker, or grim reaper, or what have you.
The possibilities are endless, really.
Maybe doctors and nurses can wear these at VA hospitals. I bet the black pajama look would be super popular.
Eat crap and die.
You couldn’t be more right with the above statement. While black nurses exist, a black woman in scrubs is usually an indicator of a far-less technical position as you’ve accurately suggested.
Doesn’t it appear that the medical community is becoming more of a joke and unprofessional by the day? First it’s dancing on Tik-Tok, then it’s female “Doctors” posing scandalous pictures of themselves on social media as a form of revolt against being held to high moral standards, and now we see more virtue signaling with Doctors bowing down to a neo-Marxist terrorist organization. Wonderful.
As for the color black, it’s my favorite and one that I’ been wearing most of my life. Black is the color of par excellence, those who embrace an “against time” philosophy in the metaphysical sense (IE. read Savitri Devi to learn more if interested), and those who reject worldly things (or reject the world as in being spiritually dead from it in Orthodoxy).
I wear solid black as a subtle way to show my faith (Russian Orthodox Christian) and ideology (National Socialist), but in a sophisticated, industrial-style that often receives compliments and at other times, comes off as intimidating — and enough to keep people from messing with me.
Unfortunately, some acquaintances and observers have suspected over the last couple of years that I wear all black as a political statement as in being far-left rather than far-right. Now, it’s even worse because people appear to be more prone at labeling me either “Antifa” and/or pro-BLM, rather than my chosen attire simply being industrial, Eastern European, and/or ideological — though most are too dumb to understand the metaphysical and religious aspect of it.
And as the last white light goes out, you will be about one year away from a rude return to living in mud huts and tin shanty-towns, scratching dry patches of dead earth for scrawny corn and using chalk to make rudimentary messages on dead plasma tv screens… Welcome to your victory.
Never forget that ‘white privilege’ is synonymous with ‘civilization.’
Or old.
My hundred year old aunt assumes it still must be the party of Roosevelt. Especially now that her caretakers keep CNN on 24/7 (which she never watched before needing full time assistance). And she’ll vote (twice or perhaps even more) thanks to her caretakers who monitor the mailroom like hawks, taking care to spot discarded ballot forms that people (and their relatives) throw out among the mounds of Miracle Ear ads.
For the 2016 election, I was surprised that someone had already filled her ballot for/with her because it’s something we used to do, reading through all the gobbledygook together. I don’t recall this level of “care” ever happening in elections past with elderly relatives. It’s certainly not on the list of elective services we signed up for!
Woke Manichaeism can’t have beige and chocolate. It can only be black and white.
Woke Manichaeism teaches an elaborate dualistic cosmology describing the struggle between a good, spiritual world of blackness, and an evil, material world of whiteness .[6] Through an ongoing process that takes place in human history, whiteness is gradually removed from the world of blackness and returned to Hell, whence it came.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manichaeism