Over the past few months at GomerBlog, we’ve received thousands upon thousands of letters from doctors all over the world asking us how they can improve their image and become the coolest doctor on the block. Well fret no more! Follow these few simple tips and rest assured you’ll be the most popular doctor in your healthcare system!
Wear a fanny pack and wear it OVER your white coat.
Nothing screams style, chic, and whimsy like wearing an oversized fanny pack, let alone wearing one over your white coat. This will tell your colleagues, patients, and friends, “I’m not a one trick pony with just a stethoscope, no sirree bob!” Show them you’re a jack-of-all-trades. What should I put in my fanny pack? you might be asking. Read on Dr. Fashionable, we’ll tell you!
Always carry a spackle knife.
Nothing will impress your colleagues more than following-up patient care and good bedside manner with the ability to patch and repair small cracks, holes, and any other defects in drywall or plaster. Don’t forget to choose the correct spackle and knife before proceeding. Definitely make sure that the spackle is flush. Sandpaper it down before priming and painting and voila! Can you feel yourself oozing with cool? You’re like the Fonz but in a white coat! EYYYY!!!
Nothing screams cool like a box beam level.
Sometimes, you’re not exactly sure if a patient is at 45 degrees to perform a hepatojugular reflex or that a hip angle is 90 degrees to perform a Kernig’s sign. Or maybe that Wong-Baker FACES Pain Scale in the examination room is slightly crooked. Not to worry, doc! A box beam level instantaneously boosts your image, straightens those angles, and will turn you into a rock star. Just be sure to wash your box beam level every once in a while. Catching C. difficile? That’s so uncool!
Move back home with your parents.
Nothing commands more respect and admiration than saying, “I love my parents so much that I still live with them!” It speaks to your commitment to family and frugality. And if you really want to hammer the point home? Refer to them as Mommy and Daddy and do it often. If that doesn’t earn you the utmost respect, we don’t know what will!
When wearing scrubs, make sure the tops and bottoms don’t match.
Green scrub tops plus green scrub pants? YAWN. Blue scrub tops and blue scrub pants? BORING! Matching scrubs makes you seem conservative, dull, and predictable. Who wants that out of their doctor? But put on black scrub tops with pink scrub pants? Now we’re talking! You’re cooler than cool; you’re ice cold! Even before you’ve introduced yourself, colleagues and patients will already know, “Hey, that’s Dr. Badass, and that’s someone I can trust.”
Dr. 99 is pretty cool, but not as cool as YOU’RE going to be after you apply these simple tips. Disclaimer: GomerBlog is not responsible for any hardships you may encounter with your new level of coolness, popularity, and fame.
You are sooooooo my coolest co worker ;) ;)
LOL! Okay the spackle makes no sense but they have a point with the leveler. I feel flattered, I must be your coolest coworker huh?
Probably not!
LX Rhee
Kelsey Hines best thing I’ve seen!!!!! Thank you for sharing and thinking of me! Fanny packs are just about the best inventions, ever.
Breadcrumbs … Also, Meera Gandhi :)
Lynda Balfour
Rachel Roberts …
You’re gonna look like a nurse wannabe! Mix n match scrubs- where’ve you been? And we practically have our own versions of a swiss knife thing in OUR fanny packs . But yeah it could be cool
Hahahaha
I could pull that off
Kimberly Johnson Estes
Oh man, if only my doc didn’t already wear a fanny pack 24/7!! To keep his pipe in.
Hahahahaha
I am cool:)
Colby Giudicessi weren’t we talking about this?
Your birthday is coming up….
One of the coolest docs I’ve seen wears a flannel t shirt over his scrubs and a fanny pack!
Derrick Pelton
If my doctor entered the room wearing a fanny pack, I think I would have to leave. Be honest- what would you do?
Kirby Von Edwins
It’s a batman utility belt!
Brooke Billingsley just so you know, i had to wear a fanny back as a medical student and resident in the Dominican Republic! This is a real thing!
Lori Leonhardt
Eliza Ajero Granflor
I’d like to see the studies that show a direct correlation between size of fanny pack and patient rating of coolness while showing an indirect relationship of this to patient complaints. Get on it, Press Ganey!
No, no, no. I don’t want my Doctor looking like the janitor! Have you seen anything interesting lately?
We have the coolest Doc at our cottage in northern Wi. Made of treated wood and metal frame.
Just wear a lab coat. As long as you have a lab coat people will think your a doctor.
I’m so getting the Docs this for doctors week!!!!!
Surgeons keeping marking pens in fanny packs; surgery admitting nurses thrilled to finish charting uninterrupted!
Hahahahhah!! I heard you might potentially be a convert, Insun Chong!! Welcome to the dark but fun side!!!
Walter Sartor, Martin DeGravelle Some style tips for you guys!
Whatever. Imma #YOLO so hard.
I’m glad you already saw this, Insun.
Def follow this page, brings smiles!
Omg so not wearing a fanny pack lok
Genius!
Steven Lofgran – let’s do this.
Haha I may could talk them into it!
Definitely! ! Lol
Heather Cheek Daniel , April Kyle Pettyjohn, and Christie Bice Burgess hey ladies I think your doctors should start this trend in our area. Hahah!!
Jessica Vanderham Hayli Nicole Gray Gia Tronvold this is the satirical medical page I was talking about the other day! It’s soooo funny, Jess apply this to your CNP practice someday :) lol!
Dani Boice!!!!!! Bahahah
Mónica, this will be me in July at ILH when I’m doing my sub-i… :(
Oh I shall begin recommending this immediately!
Baahahhahaha hahahhahahahahahahhaa! I
Neurologist
Anna Bordelon Hankins and Jeff Goza this will complete your white coat look!
Madolyn VP this would be you
Chris Chen
Cool!
Victoria Strickland Junkin Cassie Raney Clark Leah Oswalt
‘Heeeeey!’ …lol!! LOVE IT!!
Cory Lieberman Sotelo!!!
Doc, we need spackle, stat!
So I just came back from Peru where fanny packs are *in*. All the doctors in the hospital wear them.
See Leslie Estelle. Told ya
He’s the coolest doc in town and he has no fanny pack! Lior Bibas
Graeme Rich and John Wood…this may help you get married ;)
Edi Berbic
Ewww