Man Love Friday - The Final Chapter

I really like that the surgeons in this rotation are color coordinating their scrub pants with their tops. It's quite lovely. They insisted on being photographed in their 'natural setting'.

This should be my last vision of Man Love Friday at JBB. I hope I'm not here at the next one.

Man Love Friday - The New Crew

The Return of Man Love Friday

It's Friday Again!

Man Love Friday Strikes Again

It's Man Love Friday

Man Love Friday Strikes Again

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Man Love Friday, Again

Some of the highlights of the show today.

Man Love Friday, Take 2

Heard another version behind the story of Man Love Friday. Presented in Morning Openers (instead of a clinical topic).






According to the Cardiologist, the reason is because of donated scrubs and laundry day. And this is a occurence in other areas of the Middle East theater of operations.

Scrubs are not something authorized for our hospitals (i.e. we cannot order them through military channels). They come to us from well meaning folks back home. So we get a mixture of solid color and colorful, fun themed scrubs. Years ago it was determined that scrubs are unisex. However, by the end of the work week, only the more feminine tops were left. This blossomed into the challenge of the folks wearing them and choosing the most ladylike options (we were even treated to a photograph of a murse in an old fashioned female nursing dress & cap from years ago). Today our male staff are still encouraged to make their Friday scrub top choice as feminine as possible (and we women are allowed to judge their success) - just not too tight.



All this was related to the medical staff the same morning our hospital commander wore a Gorilla Suit.

Man Love Friday

So, how do I explain this:

The story (pure hearsay) is that the locals tending their sheep outside the wire get a little lonely and guards in the towers have directly observed them .. ah ... well .. use your imagination .. on Thursday afternoon/evenings. At the AFTH everyone used to wear colorful scrubs but a tradition started that on Fridays, in honor of the local custom, folks would go all out to wear the "gayest" scrub top they could find in the pile. A hospital commander didn't think that patterned/colorful scrubs were very professional so he changed the policy so that during the week there can be only single color scrubs but he did keep "Man Love Friday".

Which brings me to another word I learned here: Murses (our wonderful male nurses).