Guest Blog: My White Coat
I was so excited to get my white coat. The White Coat Ceremony was the beginning of medical school, the confirmation that yes, I was going to be a doctor, and I couldn’t wait. As the dean of the program called my name and placed the coat on my shoulders, I smiled…and then noticed that...
More Pee than Praise
In the advent of Google Plus, I’ve been reconnecting with old friends – mostly friends from high school and college that I’d lost touch with over the years. The result is that I receive a daily dose of the most eclectic posts you could imagine, from the epic destruction of a video game boss to...
The Medelita Difference
We are grateful to work each day to improve the lives of deserving, accomplished, and professional individuals, and we give every Medelita customer the highest degree of effort and attention. What makes it truly worth it for the Medelita Team are the continual, unsolicited affirmations that we do make a difference. I’m proud to be...
Your Opinion Matters: Help Us Choose the Next Color For Our Men’s and Women’s Scrubs
It was during these summer months in 1908 when the first public Suffragette rallies were held – when women first united to publically demand a voice. I make the occasional private joke about how content I would be as a housewife or a princess, but the reality is that I have a career that I...
Cleaning Your Lab Coat The Eco-Friendly Way
We recently had a customer ask if she could clean her Medelita lab coat with natural soap, vinegar, or orange oil. As we, as a society, become increasingly more aware of our carbon footprints and chemical toxicity, a desire for eco-friendly options is rising – so I wanted to take a moment to address this...
Effort vs. Expectation
When talking in terms of companies or employees, we often label people as ‘hard workers’. I’ve been thinking quite a lot lately about the role that effort plays within the context of work. It’s undeniably the most important piece of the puzzle – afterall, without effort, everything else becomes irrelevant. But is effort alone enough...
The Button Theory
Many of us at Medelita are fans of Patagonia. Let My People Go Surfing, by Patagonia Founder, Yvon Chouinard, has served as an inspiration for some of our Medelita policies. The following excerpt is a prime example: Let’s take a close look at a loose button and the consequences depending on who happens to discover...
Medelita Embroidery: Pondering Punctuation
I have a bad habit of using exclamation marks when I write. Not that I’m a punctuation cheerleader who seems ‘about to explode with how awesome what I am saying is!!!!!’, but more that I tend to use exclamation points to try and convey something beyond monotony. However, I’m still wrong – redefining the English...
The Hoops and Tape of Customer Service
What happened to exceptional Customer Service? For the past few weeks, I’ve been dealing with a company that owes me several hundreds of dollars. The latest installment involves them sending the check to the wrong address and then arguing with me about who is wrong (I live here. I know my address). Arguably, it’s not...
Osler lab coat testimonial – just in . . .
I can safely say that this customer is REALLY happy with his new Osler lab coat. We are continually grateful for these unsolicited testimonials, and realize that taking personal time to put thoughts in an email to us – even to look up our email address – is a big deal. One that our Medelita...
Most Meaningful Email of the Day
At Medelita we are lucky to service a rather vocal group of professionals. Considering how busy everyone is – we’re always pleasantly surprised to get an email from a customer stating their impressions of our lab coats and medical scrubs. This one truly made our day today. I passed it along to our small team,...
Reply to “No Elastic” Email Suggestion . . .
Someone emailed us today and said, “Would you consider making the elastic waist band optional on the women’s clinician scrub pant? I like your description of the pants, but I do not like elastic waists.” Sort of a flash from the past email. I had forgotten about our clinician scrub pants having elastic. There was...
