Sorry if this is repeat info, I don't have time to read the whole thread
this morning.
It might be interesting to comment on the different status of the white
coat in medicine and science.
Graduating medics wear their sparkling white lab-coats with pride.
Stethoscope in top pocket, medical books bulging out the lower pockets.
Then later when they get to be consultants they ditch the white coat in
favour of a boring office suit and tie, (merrily carrying MRSA from ward
to ward I would imagine.) Those who crossed over to the 'dark side' and
came into the research lab for a few years to do a research PhD arrived
sporting their shiny white coats but after a few weeks realised that
they were mainly worn by the technicians and ditched them.
In my cancer research physics lab it seemed that white coats were worn
begrudgingly by scientists and only if something involved nasty
chemicals; but when worn the more battle scars the better. The
technicians however lived in theirs.
Quite comical really that in a laboratory full of super-brains anyone
would even bother to care.
Kevin
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