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manarth | on: Why Lab Coats Turned White

    > "our coats were white because we used to write on them"
It's hard to tell whether this is a deliberately trolling statement, a fantastical Walter Mitty style statement, or something else.

Coats weren't white for anyone to write on, and clinical staff didn't routinely write on their clothes.

zabzonk | parent | next
> Coats weren't white for anyone to write on, and clinical staff didn't routinely write on their clothes.

I wasn't a medic, I was a microbiologist. And I can assure you we did write all over them.

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manarth | parent
NB: The original post said:

    > "our coats were were from white"
Which appeared to be a typo.

The understanding of the original post was "our coats were white because", which implied the purpose of the coats being white, was to allow them to be written on.

The post was edited to read:

    > "our coats were far from white"
Which has a very different meaning. Still questionable, but changes the context from "it was expected that we would write on our clothes", to "we wrote on our clothes".