I had to take a chemical and biological safety training class today for the lab where I'm volunteering. It was 5 hours. I was told it would be 4 hours. Anyway, that's not the rant (since it wasn't so bad). Today's rant is about people who wear their lab coats outside of a lab/medical office. It's something the biological safety officer remarked on, and something I've seen way too many times to count.
Seriously people, the air can be quite full of allergens at the very least, not to mention dust and dirt- it's really not a bright idea to contaminate your PPE. You're going to contaminate whatever or whoever you are working with when you go back inside, whether it be patients (I'm looking at you, clinicians), animals (whose immune systems may not be prepared for the local environment), tissues, etc.
If you really want to be a good doctor/researcher/whatever, one step is to leave your lab coat at your desk. And if you have one just for wearing outside, you should really think about why you need other people to recognize your special coat.
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