Funny read, which I think many people can relate to, yet I have some questions.
Let me quote.
They go to the bathroom wearing their labcoats, and take a 1 mile walk to a restaurant all the while wearing the labcoat. I get it, you've spent 6 or 7 years making sweet love to your books, but that doesn't mean you can go eat with your labcoat on, since that defies the very purpose of wearing one. Anyone seen wearing a labcoat in the hospital cafeteria gets an automatic warning. You wear a labcoat to keep hospital pathogens in the hospital, and to avoid bringing outside contamination onto whatever shit you're doing.
See, when I'm on my smoke break, all these douchebags standing outside waiting for God knows what, see my lab coat, and run to ask the most idiotic and annoying questions.
So you blame the med students for wearing their labcoat in the cafeteria while eating, but you have no problems with you smoking in it? Where is your moral in relation to this?
Otherwise, looking forward to your next rant^^
I smoke 5 meters away from the hospital in a designated area while carrying my lab coat, not wearing it, because I can't just leave it hanging around the lab. Putting it in my lap while I smoke is hardly weird, seeing as how most people carry the coat to and from home. No contamination reaches it. Besides, even if I do smoke wearing it, I'm not a doctor, and the risk of me getting any sort of pathogen on me or transferring any outside pathogen to a specimen I might be working on is extremely low, as all the environments we work in are completely sterile and absolutely nothing comes in contact with anything more than my gloved hands.
Everyone knows that cigarettes are harmful. Even the most dumb person will tell you that they're harmful if you ask them. It's not about the harm, it's about the addiction. Most of them more than likely got addicted before they even thought of becoming a doctor, but now they can't quit it. They know it's terrible, but it's too hard to quit, factoring in all the stress and the work they do. If they ever create a wonder pill that makes you stop smoking and stop craving that shit, I'm sure almost everyone would take it.
im not allowed to wear my lab coat to the break room or restroom, against policy. we keep things sterile, almost too sterile sometimes for my own taste.
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I'm a heavy smoker.
Rise and rise again, until lambs become lions
Please don't say filterless... I can't believe some people actually prefer them like that.
Rise and rise again, until lambs become lions
I smoke 5 meters away from the hospital in a designated area while carrying my lab coat, not wearing it, because I can't just leave it hanging around the lab. Putting it in my lap while I smoke is hardly weird, seeing as how most people carry the coat to and from home. No contamination reaches it. Besides, even if I do smoke wearing it, I'm not a doctor, and the risk of me getting any sort of pathogen on me or transferring any outside pathogen to a specimen I might be working on is extremely low, as all the environments we work in are completely sterile and absolutely nothing comes in contact with anything more than my gloved hands.
Rise and rise again, until lambs become lions
Rise and rise again, until lambs become lions
"to the worm in horseradish, the world is horseradish."