Sexing up the lab coat

[amy c.]

I just googled 'Pentex' and came across this lovely turn of phrase:

Still, silver ammunition is expensive and fetishes difficult to manufacture

Amy?

Oh, don't I wish.

[edman]

Scientists' Style Guide

Here is the one that comes with plastic test tube, and this requires 'one' to bend for optimum effect, but if you are wearing this underneath, it doesn't have the desired effect; you may just end up atracting this'one' or whorse

[Dr Mike]

Goodness gracious, where on earth did you dig those up??

[Editor]

Apparently the white coat is on its way out in the British medical profession!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6998877.stm

[amy c.]

Oh yes, they talked about that here, too! Reaction to the "white coat effect" on blood pressure. But maybe $200K in med school loans had better buy you some authority, I don't know -- they never got rid of them. Actually I bet the patients would complain more about it.

Especially the old ones.

Like me. I find myself feeling deeply, almost barkingly intolerant when I see a mailman, mail person, mail carrier in mufti. Emblem of civilization and functioning government, mailman.

[Mad Dan Eccles]

Oh yes, they talked about that here, too! Reaction to the "white coat effect" on blood pressure.

which is nonsense of course - the hypertensive effect isn't due to the white coat but to the whole thing; the surgery, the thought of actually seeing a doctor, etc.

I find myself feeling deeply, almost barkingly intolerant when I see a mailman, mail person, mail carrier in mufti. Emblem of civilization and functioning government, mailman.

Heh.

I found this bit interesting:

"But borrowed from the scientists who were making breakthroughs in laboratories, the white coat was also seen as a way of giving credibility to a profession regarded by some as dominated by cultish quacks."

[Dr Mike]

Scientists, giving medicscredibility? They had their priorities straight back then.

[Mad Dan Eccles]

Sorry to grave-dig... but you might be interested in this.

[frogfactory]

You can't get TC style coats outside the UK?

[Mad Dan Eccles]

We'd have to ship them over: no locally-grown produce.

Which is crazy—Australia exports cotton (mainly to China, where it gets sweat-shopped into cheap swimwear and sold back).

But yeah, 60 quid, plus about the same again for shipping. That's a shedload of Australian $.

[frogfactory]

So, in my search for a side-fastening lab coat with elasticated cuffs (hopeless, I'm beginning to realise, unless I persuade my boss to buy me one from Fisher's UK site), I came across this, which some of you might like:

http://shop.advanceweb.com/lab-coats/4933-la-rose-30-inch-black-lab-coat.aspx

[Mad Dan Eccles]

FF, you might want to drop Mrs Eccles a line. She'd be happy to run one up for you (although it would probably have to wait until we're back in the UK).

[frogfactory]

That would be just about the coolest thing ever! Is this an Eccles cottage industry? I'll remember to bother you about it when you're settled in the Northern Hemisphere. Did she make the combat print one in your blog?

[Mad Dan Eccles]

Um, yes she did.

Sorry, I thought that was obvious! Obviously she needs better marketing...

[frogfactory]

It wasn't clear if you were being sarcastic or not in the blog So she does need to hire a better marketing director, aye.

But yes, I will take you up on the idea when it's convenient for you guys. As long as she takes Paypal or some such. Transferring money from here to the UK via the bank is foolishly expensive.