Dear Ann and Lactnetters,
    Catching up on recent posts on the US holiday weekend.  I wear labcoats
(short or long, whichever are clean and starched).  I like the professionality
(a word?) it denotes, keeps yellow stools and spit-up off clothes and has my
name and IBCLC embroidered for identification.

    I also like the pockets for pens, small supplies, business cards.  One
caution:  years ago cystic fibrosis patients at a large hospital were colonizing
for a DNA-specific pseudomonas cepacia.  They tracked down the cross
contamination to ampules of albuterol kept in the pockets of nurses!  Food for thought
when carrying things in your pockets!

    I keep a separate clean one hanging in my car in case I am "called out"
and can throw over a casual outfit when needed.

Jan Ellen Brown IBCLC
Charlotte, NC USA

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