The hospital that Mr R works at has decided that all front line clinical staff should be in uniform, so for consultants that means scrubs. He's had some natty navy blue scrubs delivered.
I have some sympathy with the helpfulness of different uniforms in medicine. As an 80s hospital veteran uniforms were useful cos you knew which "nurses" knew what, that the ones with X were students, the ones with Y were auxiliaries and the ones with Z were senior/sisters who could say sort your buggered drip out or get sense into stupid (junior) doctors. And you knew which grownups were staff and which were other adults (parents of other children).
Come the 90s and everyone switched to more generic poloshirts and I had no idea if J Random adult was a medical person or a parent of someone wearing hard wearing not-too-hot clothes and there was much more staff churn. I didn't know who my named nurse was even in paeds hospital or who might be able to help with different things.
I cared less about doctor uniforms cos I knew my consultants and no one else was reliably useful so went into "oh generic doctor" category and not to be trusted until proven otherwise. I was /that/ patient who confused the juniors on a regular basis. I still get consultants writing "SEE ME ONLY" on records/letters cos I give them a good challenge too
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