Lab coats

I don’t like docs in lab coats. Bad experience with a pompous doc who always wore one like a badge of honor. Prefer casual down to earth docs. Understand those who prefer them for play exams to set the stage.

@Rigel, when I saw your comment about lab coats being germ factories, I remembered something. After an appointment, I was eating in the Womack hospital cafeteria and I saw my doctor and many other medical personnel getting something to eat while wearing lab coats and scrubs.

It's strange they would wear lab coats in a cafeteria that was really busy. I hope that they have many lab coats, change them often and have them cleaned every day.

Does not matter to me but I do like when the steth is around their neck !

Yes. I firmly believe that the doctor should always be professional and that means groomed well, dressed well and with a lab coat on and a stethoscope in the pocket. Ideally, a nice shirt and tie as well.

Yes white doctors lab coat for me, Can be ultra clean or a bit grubby - surely with a few blood stains on shows how experienced he is! The white coat syndrome applies. As for carrying germs surely any clothes the doctor wears will pick up germs - at least with a white coat he can change into a clean one if necessary? Sorry to be sexist but I prefer male doctors in my medical fetish.

Same goes for the nurses - they ought to be wearing a clean starched white apron!

The only times I've been examined by someone wearing a lab coat were all in role playing situations by people who weren't actual Doctors. My Dad wore a lab coat when he examined me in a refugee simulation at school, my Mum wore one when she examined me for my sisters short film project (both of which I've talked about on here in previous posts), and a few play Doctors I've seen have worn them. I've never seen an actual Doctor who wore one

I like the lab coats in either white or scrub blue. Preferably the ones that button up near the neck and have the Stockinette cuffs. Mixing the lab coat with scrubs works well.

The only times I've been examined by someone wearing a lab coat were all in role playing situations by people who weren't actual Doctors. My Dad wore a lab coat when he examined me in a refugee simulation at school, my Mum wore one when she examined me for my A Level Media Studies project (both of which I've talked about on here in previous posts), and a few play Doctors I've seen have worn them. I've never seen an actual Doctor who wore one

I think you'd be more likely to have a doctor in a lab coat if you had to be examined in a hospital for some reason. They're highly unlikely to wear them in their offices nowadays.

My Mum and Dad both wore their lab coats over street wear rather than scrubs when they examined me. My Dad wore his over a blue polo shirt and brown chinos and my Mum wore hers over a pink button up dress. They were both long style coats with buttons that went down below the knee. My Mum's also had a back belt on it.