Nurse & Doctor Uniforms

In an outpatient/office setting I'm used to seeing doctors in slacks, shirt and tie with a 3/4 length lab coat. In an inpatient setting doctors pretty much always wear scrubs, sometimes covered with a lab coat. It seems as tho nowadays ALL paraprofessionals wear scrubs of varying colors. Dress codes have certainly evolved over the past 30 years. Back then scrubs were almost exclusively worn by people who spent time in operating rooms -- maybe the ED. Nurses wore nursing uniforms and everyone else (phlebotomy, respiratory therapy etc) wore slacks and an appropriate top.

I like my female physicians to wear matching scrubs. That being, a short-sleeved shirt, tight-fitting bottoms, a Littman stethoscope around the neck, and an ID latched to the side belly pocket of the scrub top, and perhaps a black or white tight-fitting shirt under the short-sleeved scrubs. OH, and white sneakers look good in a scrub uniform. I'm really indifferent on a color but I've usually seen scrub uniforms be in colors of burgundy or blue.