Many years have passed since I was dragooned into the Army to fight the Viet Cong. In my time in the military, I was never really a strack soldier. Many years have passed since I was dragooned into ...

Before entering the locker room, a nurse approaches a large vending machine. After swiping his badge, he presses several buttons on a digital screen. He then removes a pair of correctly sized scrubs ...

"Uniforms ask to be taken seriously" -- "Pretty pink dresses": creating nursing identity, 1870-1909 -- "Trained mind in a trained body": the standardization of the ...

The feelings of most nurses who remember the traditional white nurse's uniform fall somewhere in the middle. At one time, they wore their uniforms proudly, and speak of them with fondness today.