Why do doctors in the operating room wear green instead of white? Product information       28/03/2023

Everyone knows that ‘white blouse’ is synonymous with a doctor’s image.

So, in the eyes of most people, doctors all wear white uniforms.

However, in many television shows, movies, and in reality, when they are performing surgeries, doctors wear green or blue uniforms.

Why don’t they wear white clothes when entering the operating room? Is it because white clothes are easily stained? Or are there other special purposes?

First of all, let’s find out why doctors wear white uniforms.

In general, hospitals have to regularly sterilize the staff’s uniforms. Clearly, for those working in hospitals, clothing must be carefully disinfected.

The problem is that many disinfectants have whitening effects, and if you use different colors for the medical staff’s uniforms, these clothes will fade when exposed to disinfectants. Therefore, white uniforms are practical and do not fade.

Secondly, choosing white uniforms will make the observers, here the patients and their families, feel more visually comfortable and less nervous.

White symbolizes cleanliness and purity. Hospital staff wear “white clothes” to instill trust in a clean and tidy environment and provide reassurance to patients.

If you pay attention, you may also notice that maternity and pediatric nurses often wear pink uniforms. Is it because pink is a cute color for children?

Indeed, it is. Pink looks very soft, symbolizing warmth and harmony. But more importantly, most children are afraid of injections, so they have psychological fears and resistance to white uniforms.

The image effect created when doctors use pink uniforms will be much better, and it can also reduce the fear of children when they enter the hospital.

Children sometimes tend to be sensitive to white and feel more comfortable with pink or light blue.

To return to the main topic, why do doctors and assistants not wear white uniforms during surgery?

In fact, right from the beginning, medical staff in the operating room used to wear white uniforms. However, everything changed when a doctor discovered the drawback of these white uniforms.

Specifically, when the doctor shifted their gaze from the red areas influenced by the patient’s blood to look at the white uniforms of their colleagues, suddenly they couldn’t see everything clearly.

This phenomenon is similar to when you go outside in the winter and see the sunlight reflecting off the snow, causing many people to suddenly faint. It can be imagined that most of the time during surgery, doctors have to face images inside the human body.

In other words, there is always a red hue like blood in their field of vision.

However, the degree and shade of red in each organ in the human body are different, some are deep, some are shallow. When the eyes continuously work under these conditions, the ability to distinguish the “red” color of the human eye weakens. Eventually, it can lead to the phenomenon of “oversaturation,” and doctors will not be able to perceive the small differences in red between different body parts. And such visual disorders can easily lead to medical errors.

But why use green or blue uniforms instead of other colors? Does that solve the problem mentioned above?

A contrast color chart

The role of green or blue is to refresh the doctors’ impression of the color red in their vision, so the brain is not sensitive to red.

In fact, it’s quite simple to do this, as long as they occasionally look at something green during their work. But it would be more convenient to put these “greens” on their clothes so they can naturally see them, instead of having to find a specific spot to look at in the operating room.

Therefore, using green and blue as uniforms in the operating room not only improves the visual acuity of surgical doctors but also allows them to see different shades of red.

This can help surgical doctors focus on distinguishing different shades of the human body during surgery, while reducing the likelihood of errors during this sometimes lengthy process.

Furthermore, in the surgical environment, the clothing of doctors and nurses is prone to getting stained with red blood. If they wear white clothes, the bloodstains will create additional red marks on their clothing. Meanwhile, when wearing green and blue uniforms, these red stains will turn black or brown, thus serving as visual adjustments.

Doctors are not heroes; they are just ordinary people. But the moment they put on white uniforms, they suddenly become a tall barrier separating us from illness.

Let’s respect and wish them good health!

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