Scrubs

A hot topic recently amongst our students is whether they could wear their student uniform (so-called medical scrubs) outside the hospital. A little acquaintance of mine is certainly touched (at the group c nerve fibers) and makes a lengthy open comment (see https://www.facebook.com/MedicSecrets, entry #459).

I must say I agree entirely with his argument. Infection control is an issue but not a critical one. Otherwise we would all have to change our clothes before and after going to work (be they medical scrubs or not) - which was what we did during the time of SARS. After all, the scrubs of our students (especially those junior ones) could not be very contaminated - how often do you think they really contact genuine patients?

However, I would like to see the phenomenon from another angle:

You can find many people wearing the football jersey of FC Barcelona or Real Madrid in the street. Some of them, however, have such a protuberant tummy that they would have difficulty to make their shoelace. A considerable proportion of others would be gasping to death after joining a football match for 5 minutes.

On the other hand, have you ever seen Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo wearing their own jersey to the pub after the national derby?