Apparently doctors like to dress casually, too. Whoda thunkit? ABC is trying to suggest that this is some sort of reaction to Grey's Anatomy, but I think that's a load of crap. Just because casual day took longer to hit the medical profession does not mean that a TV medicodrama is responsible.

My favorite bit has to be the part where one woman says that if she walked into the ER (yeah, hopefully you'll be *walking* in, rather than *wheeled in on a stretcher*) and the doctor that saw her was wearing a hawaiian shirt, shorts, and a 'long ponytail', she'd feel uncomfortable. My reaction would actually be the opposite: hey, here's a doc who is comfortable with his humanity, who has a lighter side. Seriously, does it make a difference if the doc is wearing a dress shirt and a tie (tie-wearing, BTW, has been shown to have a significant link to many nosocomial infections) as opposed to something more along the lines of what Herr Doktor House prefers? The lab coat kinda sends a message of arrogance when it's not serving a practical purpose, I think.

The other focus of the article, was doctors' decolletage. (Great word, that.) I for one suggest that any media source that decries an increase in decolletage is no longer relevant (assuming that ABC was ever relevant, I suppose). I mean, there is a reason we call it "playing doctor" ...