Lab Coats for a Cause: Healing the Children
Our Founder, Lara Manchik, PA-C, has a history of medical missionary work and has instilled the value of contribution and charity into who we are as a company. Recently, we discovered that a customer, Jane Petro, MD, was involved in a non-profit volunteer organization, Healing the Children. Dr. Petro works with Healing the Children Northeast,...
5 Tips for Choosing a Women’s Lab Coat
If you’re purchasing a Medelita lab coat for the first time, you may feel overwhelmed by the choices available to you. After all, having a choice at all is a revolutionary concept for medical apparel. While all of our styles look great on any figure, we want you to look and feel perfect. Here are...
Side Slits in Lab Coats
Most of our longer lab coats feature traditional side slits, or side vents, and recently I wondered why. From a historical standpoint, double side slits made their first appearance in British tailored suit jackets. In a suit jacket, these vents take the form of flap-like slits in the back bottom of the jacket. Originally, these...
Why White?
Did you know that lab coats were originally beige? Prior to the adoption of lab coats in the medical profession, beige lab coats were generally worn by scientists. In the late 19th century, doctors adapted the tradition to symbolize a scientific approach to medicine. However, they changed the color from beige to white. Historically, clerics...
A $30 Suit
Imagine for a moment that you’re facing an important court case, and your attorney arrives in a $30 suit. Would you feel it didn’t matter, or would your confidence in that attorney be shattered, if only a little? While the dollar amount is just an example, the quality of a garment has a huge impact...
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...
Win a Free Lab Coat
Part of my job here at Medelita is to interact with our customers on Facebook, and it’s a very enjoyable part of my day. Through these social media outlets, we can engage our customers directly and place their needs at the forefront of our growth. It’s a privilege to be involved with such a community...
Experience-Inspired Design in Lab Coats and Medical Scrubs
It was the silence that eventually woke me. A sense, even in sleep, that something was missing . . . something wasn’t quite right. There was a moment after my eyes opened, still heavy with the haze of sleep, where I simply stared at the alarm clock and wondered why it was displaying the wrong...
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...
Confidence Boosting Secrets
My mother is an avid collector of jewelry. She follows all the designers and is always sparkling from head to toe on any special occasion. During a recent trip to California, she gave me a necklace that I wore to the CDA Conference in Anaheim this past Friday. As I was leaving the Conference, I...
Medelita at the CDA Conference in Anaheim
Our Medelita conference team is just returning from the California Dental Association convention, The Art and Science of Dentistry, in Anaheim. Our only local conference of the year (as we are based in San Clemente, CA) The CDA Presents event was only a short car ride away. This week we are still basking in the...
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...
