So after much work, I finally organize a special day for the medical clinic I work for. Moral is running low these days, and this was supposed to pull people together and do a good deed at the same time. They have a special dress down for diabetes campaign and I round up the staff and collect donations, order lunches for everyone and in general try to get everyone into the spirit of it all. Anyway I make a stop into the staff room yesterday when most of them are there to remind them all to dress down (as in jeans, etc.)Everyone is excited as we all wear medical garb normally.This one doctor interrupts and loudly announces "I will not take part in dressing in anything but a suit as it shows a lack of respect to the patients. So, by contributing donations for the honor of wearing jeans for one day to help people with diabetes is showing a lack of respect for our patients?? I think you show a lack of respect for a very hard working,caring staff with this comment, and display for all to see what a cruel person you can be. I look forward to next year, when you are retiring, and just so you know I will not be attending your bon voyage party. Putz!!! Thanks, I feel better now.
I’m with you, Run. YES, people make assumptions based on appearance. YES, that’s mostly out of line since the best docs like to dress down and the ones who insert a freshly sanded broomstick up their rectums each and every morning like to wear Today’s Man suits.
Your people deserve a day like that, it’s a terrific idea. He’s a blowhard who doesn’t know how to have fun. Period. 
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I agree with him in that a patient expects a certain level of professionalism from his or her doctor. I know I would certainly find it disconcerting were mydoctor to come into the examining room dressed like he was ready for a barbecue. A professional image is an important part of a patient’s confidence in the doctor.
However, that shouldn’t have stopped him from donating to the fund anyway. Sometimes I’ll give a dollar to the Kiwanis guys selling Tootsie Rolls at stoplights even though I don’t like Tootsie Rolls and I’m not going to eat it. The same applies to him and your fund.
One thing I forgot to mention: we all wore buttons announcing what we were doing and signs were placed all over the clinic. No one wore anything too revealing, dirty etc. We simply wore clean jeans and t shirts for the most part. AND the patients loved it, not a single complaint. Just a footnote; we raised $300.00.
Me, I don’t care what the doctor’s wearing, unless his feather boa gets in the way of his stethoscope. That’s unprofessional.
Oh, and–what Cartooniverse said. Funny, I never realized the broomstick was supposed to be sanded… No wonder!! [smacks self upside head]
How come it’s always the breakfast cereals that get picked on? I swear, between pooping on corn flaks and pissing on cheerios, this board is making damn sure that I’ll be eating Pop Tarts for breakfast for the rest of my life.
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Just stay away from the frosted ones.
Great! Now you’ve ruined Pop Tarts for me!
You’re pissed off at this thread title? Hey, think how I feel!!!
cornflakes said:
Just be happy you didn’t call yourself Commode.
What is it with doctors anyway? I used to work in a hospital, and now I work for a large research university where there’s a ton of doctors (I work for their school of public health).
It seems they are either the nicest, most compassionate people around or the biggest, most arrogant assholes on Earth (well, OK, there’s lawyers like that too …).
I’m sorry you have one who is the arrogant asshole type. Clothes make not the man/woman. If I need medical assistance, I am getting the best, not the best-dressed.
We have a no-jeans policy in our office.
Policy established by a non-jeans wearing female.
Personally, I have absolutely nothing but mistrust for anyone who does NOT wear jeans in their daily life. I come home from work, take off my Dockers, put on jeans.
My optometrist wears jeans. As does my Osteopath. Both great guys, in the case of my optometrist, I would trust him with my life anytime, anywhere. I will trust him with the eyes of my child.
But because our “office manager” thinks jeans are unprofessional, we’re stuck with fragile, expensive Dockers. In an engineering field, where we regularly get filthy. Really good I dea, don’t you think?
So find this guy’s breakfast cereal, and defecate away- it’s only fair. Hell, send a bowl to me, I’d be glad to contribute.
b.
As usual, TV provides the proper example:
Capt. Hawkeye Pierce usually wore a Hawaiian shirt — when he wasn’t wearing a bathrobe.
Maj. Frank Burns usually wore his military uniform.
Who would you rather have digging shrapnel out of your butt?
Um, an actual physician?
I personally don’t think it shows a “lack of respect” for the patient to not dress in a suit, but I might find it a little offsetting to see my doc dressed in jeans. Just IMHO.
Zette
Different generation, my friend, different generation. I had one grandmother (sadly departed) that I don’t think even OWNED a pair of jeans.
Well, I’m a doc, and I’ve been screwed both ways on this issue. Once I dressed down for the office occasion, and had a patient so upset they reported me to the administrator for being unprofessional. I was told that as a professional, perhaps I shouldn’t join in the goings-on of those “lesser” types dressing down.
Then, some years later, same organization but in a different office, I ignored casual day and wore my usual doctor duds, only to be pulled aside by the administrator and told that my failing to participate was bad for morale at the office. This time I’d had enough, and told her she had absolutely no authority to judge how I chose to dress to perform my medical duties, and if she had a problem with it, we’d take it to the medical director right now.
So now I dress how I feel I should, and don’t take kindly to suggestions that I’m “not in the proper spirit of things”.
In recent months, I’ve developed a fondness for these shirts. I’ve shown up a few times to EMT class in them, and got a snotty comment or two as a result.
I could give a rat’s ass. You wanna go to a costume party, fine. You want medical care? Then fuck off and be grateful I’m as careful and focused as I am when leaning over an injured human. ( Injured wombats, that’s another thing. I lose most of my wombat patients due to gross negligence. Hey, we all have our little outlets ).
If I didn’t already have a vanity plate I love, I’d surely do one that read FINST-KND and see how many other fans of the original book caught on.
Originally Posted by Duck Duck Goose
Yeah, Ducky, I’ve always thought that unsanded equalled one awful insertion, whereas a nicely sanded rod would allow repeated use. ( This has rapidly become much more gross than I intended). Here’s an icepack for your head. I’ve got a nice bowl of fresh strawberries. Here. Have one. It’ll help with the headache. 
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