A plain old plastic apron does the job
> fine.

Unless you spill something bright coloured, then it just drips onto
your shoes!




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> Tim Morken, B.S., EMT(MSA), HTL(ASCP)
> Infectious Disease Pathology
> Centers for Disease Control
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> ----Original Message Follows----
> Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 14:00:05 -0400
> From: SMITHS5@pfizer.com
> Subject: Re[2]: Beware those labcoats / CD definition
> To: HistoNet@Pathology.swmed.edu
>
>      Well said Mike, but you try justifying new style labcoats to the
>      powers that be...  They have two definitions, safe and unsafe.
> More
>      safe is sometimes just too difficult to explain.  It requires words
> of
>      more than one syllable.
>
>      Simon
>      smiths5@pfizer.com
>
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> Subject: Re: Beware those labcoats / CD definition
> Author:  HistoNet@Pathology.swmed.edu at Internet
> Date:    10/7/98 8:37 PM
>
>
> Hear Hear!! Good call Jeff.
> Labcoats should be banned, anything with long sleeves that are not
> elasticised at the wrists are damn dangerous (you catch the flywheel
> handle
> of the microtome etc.) , if pockets are allowed they should only be
> breast
> pockets. If you are seated then lab coats offer no protection whatsoever
> (they open below the button line). In an emergency it can be sometimes
> difficult to get a lab coat off a staff member in a hurry.
> For these reason we only allow staff to wear short sleeve rear opening
> surgical smocks with velcro (tear apart) tabs. In wet areas plastic
> disposeable aprons which are easily ripped off in an emergency.
> Mike Rentsch
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Silverman <peptolab@hamptons.com>
> To: connie mcmanus <conmac@cc.usu.edu>; HistoNet@pathology.swmed.edu
> <HistoNet@pathology.swmed.edu>
> Date: Thursday, 8 October 1998 6:05
> Subject: Re: Beware those labcoats / CD definition
>
>
> >Histonetters,
> >Labcoats are dangerous; I use disposable aprons. Chairs (pockets
> hooking up
> >or wheels rolling over the tail) are  just one reason why I never wear
> lab
> >coat.  I'm six foot eight and look mighty stupid when a lab coat pocket
> >latches onto a doorknob or a bannister in a stairwell as I'm running to
> >answer that stain timer!
> >
> >CD stands for cluster designation and each CD is applied to a molecule
> >like a transmembrane receptors for growth factors or cytokines, also
> >integrins and cell adhesion molecules- I don't think they are limited
> to
> >leukocytes though that's where the earliest members were found. All
> >antibody clones recognizing different epitopes of the same molecule get
> the
> >same cluster designation.
> >Jeff Silverman
> >
> >----------
> >> From: connie mcmanus <conmac@cc.usu.edu>
> >> To: HistoNet@pathology.swmed.edu
> >> Subject: Re: Lab coat black holes
> >> Date: Tuesday, October 06, 1998 7:23 PM
> >>
> >> I've also noticed lab coat pockets like to reach out a grab things,
> too.
> >> You know... you're in a hurry (usually with a coplin jar of Giemsa
> stain
> >or
> >> something colorful), you pass the chair you usually sit in to section
> and
> >> the lab coat pocket thinks that chair is a dancing partner!  Ooops...
> >blue
> >> dye all over the floor and you!  *vbg*
> >>
> >> Connie M.
> >>
> >>
> >> >     Many moons ago one of the supervisors in the lab I was working
> in
> >wore
> >> >     lab coats that seemed to suck in all the pens and pencils in
> her
> >> >     immediate area.  Whenever she finished one job and moved off to
> >> >     another she would absent mindedly pick up writing implements
> and
> >put
> >> >     them in her pocket.We would usually retrieve them when she went
> on
> >a
> >> >     break.  I wonder if this is related to similar behavior
> observed in
> >TV
> >> >     (That's television, not transvestite, I hasten to add) news
> anchors
> >
> >> >     whereby they shuffle their papers at the end of a transmission.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >Well , I was only responding to the fact that blocks have a strange
> >> >attraction to lab coat pockets... it's the first place I look for
> >missing
> >> >ANYTHING!  *G*
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >
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