I decided few weeks ago that I would buy a scrub. I didn't go to the hospital for few days and couldn't get in touch with the nurse who was selling the scrubs. Well today I got my own scrub after paying $20. He also offered a scrub that cost $46 total, $20 for the top and $26 for the bottom. He said that it was a brand-name scrub. I didn't know that ppl actually bothered bout what kinda brand name they had on ther scrubs.
Scrubs are the shirts and trousers/dresses worn by surgeons, nurses, and other operating room personnel when "scrubbing in" for surgery. The wearing of scrubs has been extended outside of surgery in many hospitals.
Modern scrubs
Today, any medical uniform consisting of a short-sleeve shirt and pants is known as "scrubs". Nearly all patient care personnel wear some form of scrubs while on duty, as do some staffers in doctors' offices. These types of scrubs can come in any color or pattern. Scrubs featuring cartoon characters and cheerful prints are common in pediatricians' offices and children's hospitals, while prints for various holidays can be seen throughout the year. Scrubs may also include a waist-length long-sleeved jacket with no lapels and stockinette cuffs, known as a "warm-up jacket". Some hospitals use scrub color as a way of quickly identifying a staff member's department, e.g. light blue for Surgery, pink or lavender for Labor and Delivery, dark green or dark blue for Emergency, and so forth. A few hospitals extend this convention to non-staff and visitors in order to make these people clearly identifiable. (For example, visitors may wear yellow scrubs, while staffers wear blue.) Scrubs may have the hospital's name or logo imprinted on them (commonly on pockets or at knees), or they can come in custom colors, e.g. a university hospital may have scrubs in the school's colors.
Scrubs worn in surgery, in contrast, are almost always colored solid light green, light blue or a light green-blue shade known as "seal" or "ciel" blue*. Surgical scrubs are rarely owned by the wearer; due to concerns about home laundering and sterility issues, these scrubs are hospital-owned or hospital-leased through a commercial linen service.
Hospital owned????? Nobody in my hospital wears a hospital-owned scrubs. What's up with that? Is it because our location does not have many patients that have some serious hardcore contagious diseases like ebola?
