The Guide Paydal Loans

In the early years as a dentist, my normal attire was a long white lab coat over my slacks, shirt, and bow tie....yes, I admit I used to wear a bow tie. I was a geek, not proud of it, but it worked at the time. The lab coat was how I was trained to appear in front of the patients, and I guess I got used to it and as time went by, it became part of me. Then one day I realized something. I looked in the mirror and it looked like I was trying to appear superior to those around me - especially the patients. Not to mention, when I had my mask, gloves, and surgical loops on, I am sure the younger patients must have been scared silly.

So one day, I got rid of the lab coat and joined the human race, which is different from the doctor race, of that I am convinced! I looked like a normal kind of guy - professional and much more appealing to all ages. Without that long white coat, I had disarmed myself immensely. Even the staff said I looked less frightening than my usual scary self! So here I am wearing business style khaki pants, and a shirt and tie from Nordstrom's. When patients first saw me with my new look, they seemed more relaxed and I felt more relaxed with them too.

For you purists out there - those who are having a slight coronary because this violates OSHA standards, fear not! (OSHA is the government agency that says you need to wear protective gear and all that, just so you know) I declared that my shirt, tie, and pants were now my protective wear and would be treated like my lab coat was. In fact, this decision was adopted by the entire office staff who worked directly with patients. We all came to the office in the morning and changed into our appropriate attire, and at day end we changed back into our sweat pants, sweat shirts, etc. and left our 'soiled' attire in the hazmat bin to be picked up by the OSHA certified cleaners.

When you think about it, it makes more sense than the old way of doing things. By changing out of potentially infected clothes completely, and into either street clothes or just plain old sweats, I was actually reducing the risk of cross contamination by having us all leave our 'work clothes' behind at the end of the day. And since our 'work clothes' were cleaned by a special service, we were OSHA compliant as well. I did not exactly make it on the front page of "GQ"magazine with my new look, but it did make good business sense and it made the patients feel more relaxed with me and my staff. I call this a WIN-WIN!