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[–] victorz@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Side note, why is she bringing her scrubs outside the hospital? Don't you return them after your shift in America, to be washed and such?

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 61 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No people own and wash their own scrubs. Healthcare is for shareholder profits in America.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm wearing scrubs at work right now which I'm solely responsible for keeping & washing at home regularly.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You have a noble profession, IMO. 🩵

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What are you assuming is my profession?

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Something something hospital. Would you like to share?

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm a massage therapist 😄

The preceding conversation taught me that scrub-wearing people who work in hospitals don't wear their scrubs outside the facility & don't have to wash them themselves, they leave their scrubs at work and there's a separate crew responsible for scrubs laundry.

My life is not like that.

The worst filth my scrubs ever encounter are my own body sweat & occasional massage lotion mishaps.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago

Hey, massage therapy is good for well-being, too. 🩵 Maybe not as "noble" per se but it's a good service for those that afford it. 😁✌️

[–] buttnugget@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] buttnugget@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah I was just making a dumb joke because we don’t know wise their profession is.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Do you mean why did ICE abduct her from work inside the hospital and drag her outside kicking & screaming without giving her a chance to change her clothes?

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No.

But if that's what happened, I have the answer to my question.

I'm also wondering why ICE abducted her period, not really specifically from where. 👍 But like I said, this was a side note.

[–] presoak@lazysoci.al 0 points 1 day ago

Sign this paper saying you won't talk about this and we'll let you go.

According to the secret stuff law, if you talk about this we'll arrest you again.

Pick one.

[–] yannic@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

These are likely not the drab, standard, facility-provided surgical or operating scrubs that even the I.T. staff has to change in to (or don over top) before crossing the red line into a clean zone, 'red' room or room with isolation precautions. These are the other personally-supplied garments staff wear to look professional in a medical setting. These are the same ones that are sometimes replaced with T-shirts and such on casual friday or department-coordinated Hallowe'en costumes on October 31.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Ah okay, that makes sense. Thank you.

[–] Psychonaut1969@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Depends on where you work. They provide them at my hospital, but I still wear a privately owned pair when traveling between home and work.

[–] buttnugget@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Why do you wear your own scrubs to and from work?

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago
[–] HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Maybe because they are comfortable?

[–] buttnugget@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Maybe? Maybe because Satan’s cock is lodged in your anus?

[–] HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Satan is a bottom, it's actually Poseidons cock.

[–] buttnugget@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Can’t touch the bottom, in too deep.

[–] HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

That classic 9-11-hadn't-even-happened-yet kinda vibe. I feel like every day was sunny back in those days, man. Just outside Mama's house, practicing my kick flips. Day after day.

[–] stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

sometimes; my mum doesn't do that often, preferring to wash them at home. in her words, when asked why, she said: "the detergent the hospital uses smells like used clorox wipes left out in the sun and then freezed for 1 day". how she knows what that smells like is beyond me...

[–] Eh_I@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's written on the detergent bottle.

[–] stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

huh...you're probably right...

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No, US hospitals let nurses carry in bacteria and carry out bacteria into the community.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

That's the first thing that came to mind, like, wouldn't you want to contain that mess? Wash instantly?