Patient Story After FUE Surgery Cracked Me Up!
A patient who had a surgery yesterday, told me about his experience as he was walking the two blocks to his hotel. His surgery was finished at about 4:00 pm and he was wearing a surgical cap (to cover his FUE and hair transplant surgery) and a doctor’s scrub top (given to all of our patients for surgery). He was approached by two beautiful women who seem to be tourist with Russian accents. They flirted with him and struck up a conversation eventually asking him what type of doctor he was. While he loved the attention and as a single eligible man on the dating scene, he just had a hair transplant procedure and it was not the time to flirt back. He thought “what would be the chance of meeting women like that after his hair grew out wearing a surgical garb?”. We both had a real good laugh.
As a physician, I’ve always gotten a kick out of why other physicians (especially students and housestaff) walk around outside in their scrub suits, foot covers, scrub hat, mask around their chin. Obviously its not sterile so why not toss the hat, footies, and mask away. A mystery to me. And, as a final observation, I assume your patient was not walking around in a scrub suit.
Im not sure the two women who thought he was a surgeon in normal clothers and a scrub hat
are that sharp!