I don't know where or when it started but draping a stethoscope (the thing you use to listen to hearts and lungs) over your neck is the sign you are a doctor, or a nurse, or something in medicine. Along with the Scrub Suit, and an ID badge, it is the UNIFORM of the medical Biz. These attractive young people in the photo could be phlebotomists (blood drawing techs) or neurosurgeons only they don't have enough gray hair, or hold any one of about 100 medical jobs. They walk all over the hospital core area. Some go to restaurants dressed this way. When you go back to the hospital after walking all over in dog doo and rubbing elbows with everyone else in street clothes, you are supposed to change your scrub suit so as to NOT bring infectious organisms into the Hospital, where they already have their fair share. They seldom change into a fresh scrub suit. If you want to mess with folks who have a stethoscope over their neck and are wearing a scrub suit, walk up to them and say "Doctor, I have this pain in my.... " IF they run away, they are real doctors. Anyone else will give you advice. Don't take it.
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