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...
Honoring a Pioneer: Elizabeth Blackwell
I hate to admit this, but I sometimes find myself taking the rights that I enjoy for granted. In this day and age, the idea that a woman would be denied something simply because of her gender is unthinkable . . . and would likely result in a handful of lawsuits and an outraged...
How the Elizabeth B. Lab Coat got her name . . .
Originally Medelita lab coats were named by utilizing elegant, sophisticated female names. Then one day our design team thought . . . why not utilize prominent figures in medicine and dentistry to name our lab coats? People that our customers truly recognized and admired, from history. Such a meaningful idea, we thought about re-naming the...
