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!