Given or stolen clothing from hospital/ clinic/ doctor

Does anyone collect clothes from hospital stays or dr clinic visits?

I have gowns, slipper socks, scrubs, underwear, sweats and t-shirts from various stays both medical and mental.

Especially some memorable ones such as some of the ones from some of my stories. Like the gown and sock from my story 12 days strapped down in bed

Just interested if anyone else collects.

I have actually went home from both MRI's and a few surgeries with the gown and socks. I also went home with a pair of disposable shorts with a flap in the back.... Surprisingly comfortable to just wear around the house on a lazy day!

After hospital stays I've often taken stuff, knowing that it's going to wind up in the trash otherwise because, these days, patient stuff is almost always disposable. examples include bedpans, both pontoon and fracture, urinals, wash basins, water pitchers, kidney dishes, socks, lambswool pads, and a bunch of other things like steths, thermometers, blood pressure cuffs, and spirometers.

It's cheaper to throw such stuff out than sterilize it for reuse.

Unfortunate habit I have of having medical emergencies , generally my clothes get cut off ,so I usually go home in someone else's or wrapped in blankets , Lord knows I have an impressive collection of bath blankets and blankets from my local over priced souvenir shop ,er I mean hospital !

We won't talk about the times that I have been found late at night in just a diaper ,fortunately I know all the night shift guys at this point ,and they know me , well enough to know , just call a bus ( ambulance ) if I don't know I am being put in it ,I can't refuse , retired Paramedic I can save other people but like all medical people can rationalize away signs & symptoms ,till it's life or death issue . And i go from I don't rate or need an ambulance to not having a coherent sentence either way .

On a related note hospitals used to have scrubs, and if our uniform got trashed on a call we would change into scrubs ,if we got a call before we got back to the station our next patient who may not be going to same hospital had us walking in with a stolen from sign on our back ,because different hospitals had there names and sometimes other colors than the basic greens , days gone bye ,now you have to buy and supply your own at most places.

All of my medical social workers had a cess to clothing for new born to100yrs. We have our sources!