Because Doctors Always Wear White Coats
When the Obama Administration held a press conference with doctors to show how physicians support his reform policies some of them forget their lab coats. No problem:
A sea of 150 white-coated doctors, all enthusiastically supportive of the president and representing all 50 states, looked as if they were at a costume party as they posed in the Rose Garden before hearing Obama’s pitch for the Democratic overhaul bills moving through Congress.
OOPS! A crowd of 150 doctors gathers in the Rose Garden to support the health-care overhaul — as White House staffers scramble to hand out camera-ready white coats to those who forgot their own.
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OOPS! A crowd of 150 doctors gathers in the Rose Garden to support the health-care overhaul — as White House staffers scramble to hand out camera-ready white coats to those who forgot their own.
see more videosThe physicians, all invited guests, were told to bring their white lab coats to make sure that TV cameras captured the image.
But some docs apparently forgot, failing to meet the White House dress code by showing up in business suits or dresses.
So the White House rustled up white coats for them and handed them to the suited physicians who had taken seats in the sun-splashed lawn area.
Now that some hope and change we can all believe in.

October 7th, 2009 at 4:34 pm
Still preferable to weeding out critical audience members from Town Hall meetings. At least the photo op doesn’t last as long.
October 7th, 2009 at 8:13 pm
Same thing occurs every year at medical school orientation… Everyone there needs to have the white coat on to represent the profession.