Are you wearing a lab coat? - (Jan/07/2011 )
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Wow, a heavy discussion for a joke.
Love the comic, dr. h.
-lab rat-
lab rat on Sat Feb 5 02:58:21 2011 said:
Wow, a heavy discussion for a joke.
Love the comic, dr. h.
but what about my especially-designed labcoat rack, LaRa? And the heavy discussion- it's all dr H's fault, actually....btw, in which camp are you? i.e. follow the rules vs. follow your own rules
-casandra-
Maddie on Fri Feb 4 19:26:13 2011 said:
Ha, I'm gonna stir the soup and show off. Being in a forensic lab, we wear lab coats to protect the samples from US
. I wear a coat, 2 pairs of gloves, a mask and sometimes sleeves. In a lab where I used to work, we had total coverall and that was really painful in the summer (hot). So we had a room to undress in the morning and could only keep underwears, then we'd put the coverall and on top of that a face shield. I'm glad I don't have to do that here. Pito is right about lab coats being worn for weeks (months?) without being washed. Seen that 
. Yuk. In my lab, tadaa, we have paper lab coats and change everyday..lala..I told ya I'd show off. 
Oh and a vestibule between the lab and the hall where the coats are stored. I love my life.
Concerning googles, I wouldn't mind wearing them if I didn't get this fog each time I breathe
but then it happens because of the mask. Each case is different. Common sense is the rule, right pito? Paper lab coats tadaa....hmmm....really what a show-off you are, Maddie
As for your foggy goggles, have you ever tried the old Band Aid trick:
or the cheap Dawn trick:
(and both these must the most exciting utube videos ever
) -casandra-
I am a rebel looking for a cause. I made my own tie-dyed lab coat, with plastic parrot buttons. I dare you to scold me for not wearing it.
-lab rat-
casandra on Sat Feb 5 03:14:23 2011 said:
actually....btw, in which camp are you? i.e. follow the rules vs. follow your own rules
Hey I dint even think that the forum would be divided on simple thing like wearing a lab coat.
The way things are Casandra, I think we must start a brotherhood. A society where all members religiously wear lab coats. We are a handful few left in the labs around the world. Any names????
-gt_ameya-
Maddie on Fri Feb 4 19:26:13 2011 said:
Ha, I'm gonna stir the soup and show off. Being in a forensic lab, we wear lab coats to protect the samples from US
. I wear a coat, 2 pairs of gloves, a mask and sometimes sleeves. In a lab where I used to work, we had total coverall and that was really painful in the summer (hot). So we had a room to undress in the morning and could only keep underwears, then we'd put the coverall and on top of that a face shield. I'm glad I don't have to do that here. Pito is right about lab coats being worn for weeks (months?) without being washed. Seen that . Yuk. In my lab, tadaa, we have paper lab coats and change everyday..lala..I told ya I'd show off. Oh and a vestibule between the lab and the hall where the coats are stored. I love my life.
Concerning googles, I wouldn't mind wearing them if I didn't get this fog each time I breathe
but then it happens because of the mask. Each case is different. Common sense is the rule, right pito? Thats my motto.. think before you act.
And offcourse, sometimes you wear a coat to protect the sample. Forensic science for example.
Does remind me of an experiment I worked on, plant pathogens.. Each time I needed to get into the small greenhouse, I had to wear a trow away fullbody coat, damn that was hot, it didnt breath at all and made me sweat like hell, after a few times I got so tired of it that I undressed (yes yes, kept my underwear on
) before putting it on (most people just kept their regular clothes on etc and wore the coat above those clothes, but they didnt need to be in the greenhouse for too long nor did they dislike the heat as much as me..) and offcourse someone grapped my pants, shirt and sweater (knowing I couldnt keep the trow away coat on since it would contaminated everything) ... that day I walked through the lab wearing nothing but my boxershorts.... offcourse the first comment I got from the first person I passed (the senior professor, who was never at the lab normally, now all of a sudden he was 
, he was the "big boss" of the lab): "djezus man, that you dont wear a lab coat is fine, but hell, dont exaggerate..." and then laughter coming from inside his office.. who would have known that the big boss himself stored my clothes in his office with all the rest of the people of my lab 
I never found it who took my clothes .... the big boss just stored them because someone asked him to do.. and he refused to tell me who
Googles: yeah, you need to buy good googles that dont give too much fog.
seanspotatobusiness is also right: you also need to know who is in the lab ... but I make sure no one can drop stuff on me or splash things in my face.. we have a good lab, you dont need to annoy eachother to take stuff etc..
-pito-
Pito, that story wins the blue ribbon.
-lab rat-
lab rat on Sat Feb 5 19:46:55 2011 said:
Pito, that story wins the blue ribbon.
...he follows his own rules and is shameless to boot.... -casandra-
The science-y feeling sadly wore off after about a year or so in the lab. I'd do anything to feel like that again!
That's a shame. I guess it does wear off for some people. I always associated gloves with feeling scienc-y, because we always wore covies or coats when working with the animals, and not gloves. (Feed trials, so no X-contamination.)
-lab rat-
casandra on Sat Feb 5 19:55:22 2011 said:
...he follows his own rules and is shameless to boot....I guess there was a Casandra-like girl, who took away the clothes
anyway a good story...
-hobglobin-