Why surgens and assistants are wearing green cloths in operation theatre?
The green was supposedly picked because it was easiest on the eyes to surgeons who were working under the lights in the OR (before they wore the green scrubs the traditional color was white, which supposedly caused too much glare during long operations). When you’re operating on someone, what you see the most of is the sterile cloth draping the patient and the body of whoever is working across the table from you. They added blue, according to my favorite surgery professor, when they started filming operations and found that it worked better on camera. I don’t know if that’s true. He had quite a sense of humor. *g* Nowadays there are scrubs in every color of the rainbow, but usually all members of a particular service wear the same one. At one hospital where I rotate, the trauma surgeons specifically wear pink scrubs. That, I find a little disconcerting for some reason.
