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Tip 1 - The Evolution of Nursing Scrubs

Published: 9 years, 2 month(s) ago | Submitted by Irini Chatziioakeimidou | permalink

Nurses mostly wear scrubs today but that was not always how it was. How did it come to be that nurses would wear scrubs each day to work?
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For further reading: http://www.jacksonvilleu.com/resources/history-of-nursing/uniforms-why-nurses-wear-scrubs/ ^[1]

Tip 2 - How Unsettling Is It That Doctors Wear Scrubs to Whole Foods?

Published: 9 years, 2 month(s) ago | Submitted by Jim Bierbower | permalink

Doctor Hamblin's Emporium of Medicinal Wonderments: In an ongoing series, the curious men and women of The Atlantic bombard me with their physiological curiosities.
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For further reading: http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/08/how-unsettling-is-it-that-doctors-wear-scrubs-to-whole-foods/261557/ ^[2]

Tip 3 - Should Doctors and Nurses Wear Scrubs in Public? | Physician's Weekly

Published: 9 years, 2 month(s) ago | Submitted by June Schmieder - Ramirez | permalink

Being “old school,” I don’t like to see people wearing scrubs outside of the hospital. But there is no evidence that bacteria on scrubs spread disease, and a large number of ancillary hospital personnel wear scrubs.
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For further reading: http://www.physiciansweekly.com/scrubs-wearing-in-public/ ^[3]