Enclothed Cognition

This fantastic blog post by The Doctors' Rheum gave us a few good laughs, but definitely got us thinking about our colleagues in medicine and how it must look when taking a chance on one's work attire.

A recent transplant to Los Angeles needed a lab coat quickly. “You are right in Orange County, correct?” she asked. “Yes,” I said, “but don’t brave the freeway. We will get your garments out via UPS tonight and they will arrive to you tomorrow with no traffic jam experience and complimentary return shipping." She ordered three sizes and two different styles of lab coat. She was thrilled that she will have them tomorrow and be able to wear the coat she needs on the first day of her new position on Monday. Medelita’s home try on service fulfills your lab coat and scrub needs in a timely way. Choose however many styles and sizes you think might work, for you or your entire office, and UPS will have them at your door within 3 business days. Return shipping is complimentary with orders over $100 and returns and exchanges under this program can happen within 30 days once they are shipped. You can even keep one to wear while we embroider your other garments. Medelita's founder, Lara Manchik, PA-C, knows what Medical Professionals need: lab coats and scrubs with technologically advanced fabrics, professional styling, and timely service. We are here to help you be your professional best, and Medelita’s home try on program is just one more way we achieve that.

So you’ve found the Medelita web site. You’ve overcome your shock of finding gender specific clinician lab coats. You scratch your head over the various styles to choose from and seemingly flattering features. You take a gander at your current lab coat, and make the transitional quandary in that it is potentially no longer a required cape, but a flattering, statement piece.

We can make your hospital or large group your very own custom-colored scrub sets, or just the scrub top, or the scrub pant. We recently assisted a customer who required white scrub pants, which is a color we do not currently offer.

Many customer service questions have to do with choosing embroidery content.  Embroidering your name and credentials on your professional garments really is like wearing your diploma.  For some people, lapel coverage is something to avoid at all costs, since it may partially hide one’s name and title.  For those customers, there are three important tips you should know about your embroidery content:

1. Script font takes up more room than block font.  Script is very beautiful and classic looking, but you make a trade for that beauty with lapel coverage if you want a lot of content or credentials listed.
2. Those spaces, periods and commas all count in the overall character count of your embroidery. When we say you can fit 26 characters on a size 44 Laennec you have to count the periods in M.D., or the dash in PA-C, as well as the commas and spaces.
3. You can alter the lapel coverage by pressing your lapel higher on your lab coat.  As much as we request our manufacturer to press all the lapels the same height for every style, they all come to us sometimes varying by inches.  These inches can mean the difference between lapel coverage and a clear-view of the embroidery.   So if you receive your lab coat with the first few characters covered, don’t worry, just have your local cleaner press the lapel up a bit higher.

Partial lapel coverage on name and title embroidery. We know how important the embroidery is to our customers, which is why we strive to get it right every time.  You have worked very hard for these credentials; you deserve to wear your diploma proudly.

Our fabric partners at Drirelease® have just completed a new video that provides a simplified explanation of how their technology works, which is in every pair of scrubs we make.

Baggy and unisex medical scrubs have not truly evolved in years. Brands may introduce new colors, new prints, and new pockets - but true innovation has been lacking. Our founder, an emergency medicine physician assistant specializing in pediatrics, found trend unacceptable.

This year 99.4% of the 29,171 available medical residency positions at major U.S. teaching hospitals were filled. We’d like to help you with another "match.'

Every once in a while we receive unsolicited messages like these that help to put all of our hard work into perspective and in Mary's case, it simply makes us smile knowing that our colleagues understand exactly the unique service we're attempting to provide.

Adding personalized embroidery to our lab coats is as second nature to us a signing our names. Every day we process orders with a little as one embroidered lab coat to over one thousand lab coats with logo embroidery.