19-year-old woman pretends to be doctor at London hospital — but 2nd day "on the job" gets her arrested

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Arguably, in a hospital where everyone wears scrubs, the lab coat has no functioning other than as a symbol. It used to be what people threw on over their street clothes when entering a laboratory so as to avoid ruining their clothes

The idea of white overgarments in a sterile working environment isn’t to protect the wearer’s street clothes. The idea is that white is hard to keep clean so it’s easy to tell if you get some potential contaminant on your clothes. That’s why people who work in laboratories, kitchens and electronics assembly facilities traditionally wear white.