I had a meeting at APMA headquarters over last weekend and once again, traveling through DFW, I noticed several young men traveling in scrubs. I see it every time I travel and at many airports but always at DFW without fail.

What's up with this? I don't want to wear my dirty scrubs after a day in clinic or even worse in surgery onto the plane. Why do these guys? Or are they just pretending to be doctors? That is my guess.

Is anyone actualy impressed? Certainly no one who is in the medical world would be impressed. That's nasty. Change your clothes. Take a shower. Wear real clothes. Orderlies wear scrubs too. So does the housekeeping staff. Real doctors do not fly in scrubs.

A good friend once told me that he heard about a guy who went car shopping wearing scrubs, bragging that he was a doctor. How smart is that! The car salesman just added another zero to the cost of the vehicle.

Remember when people used to get dressed up to travel? Guess those days are long past......

I generally travel fairly causally --jeans or khakis --but certainly not scrubs.  I don't wear scrubs outside of physicially being in the OR.  In the office i'm in a tie.  Always.

If you're going to be a professional, you have to dress the part.

I wonder if my wearing of scrubs at bedtime is an indication of me taking work home with me?.....I should ask my wife...LOL.

Pretty tacky.  I don't even find scrubs to be all that comfortable.  Maternity pants on the other hand...

Ha! LOL!!

When I have left each of my podiatry jobs - my externships, my residency program, my stint as associate dean at Des Moines University, and my beloved time at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio - the one momento that I have taken is, of course, a pair of scrubs. Haven't we all?

Of course my weight has jumped across a 150 pound span and so I cannot even hope to wear them all but still they are precious to me but never, ever, ever would I wear them onto a plane.

I think that it has a lot to do with the kind of practice that I had at UT, my defining role in Podiatry. My main role was to take care of diabetic foot infections - those pussed out infections that would come in at 2 a.m., with a 102 temp, DKA, septicemia, ready to lose their lives much less their foot and our team would wrangle them back to just a loss of a TMA, if we were lucky.

That is what I associate with scrubs. Pus and blood. I would never wear them onto a plane.