Yes, the lack of critical thinking is huge in the medical profession. It's funny, regarding the scrups, I think sometimes is a matter of status. As an european-born living in Florida, it still shocks me to see people in their scrubs in the supermarkets, restaurants, the street... even the surgery cap sometimes. I studied veterinarian medicine back in Spain. If I would have dared to wear my scrubs in the faculty restaurant I would have been expelled, and this was the restaurant serving only veterinarian students, not a normal restaurant, but, it was totally forbidden to wear the scrubs outside the surgery room, the visit rooms and the necropsy/anatomy laboratories. Has the scrub being worn in a heart surgery previously visited an starbucks? I hope not, but, can we be sure? When I realized this was not forbidden by the medical profession in USA I lost all faith in them. They just want to show everybody they are doctors/nurses/medical professionals, not realizing they also show they lack of hygiene and profesionalism.
Yes, the lack of critical thinking is huge in the medical profession. It's funny, regarding the scrups, I think sometimes is a matter of status. As an european-born living in Florida, it still shocks me to see people in their scrubs in the supermarkets, restaurants, the street... even the surgery cap sometimes. I studied veterinarian medicine back in Spain. If I would have dared to wear my scrubs in the faculty restaurant I would have been expelled, and this was the restaurant serving only veterinarian students, not a normal restaurant, but, it was totally forbidden to wear the scrubs outside the surgery room, the visit rooms and the necropsy/anatomy laboratories. Has the scrub being worn in a heart surgery previously visited an starbucks? I hope not, but, can we be sure? When I realized this was not forbidden by the medical profession in USA I lost all faith in them. They just want to show everybody they are doctors/nurses/medical professionals, not realizing they also show they lack of hygiene and profesionalism.