FAIRLY: How Unsettling Is it That Doctors Wear Scrubs to Whole Foods? “Not that it matters particularly that they’re scrubs; it’s more the fact that they didn’t change out of what they wore when they were around sick people and contaminated things. They have to be bringing some infectious organisms with them a fair amount of the time.”

UPDATE: Reader Jeffrey Lang writes: “Presumably they are clean scrubs. I wear them at work and might change them 3 times during the day if they get dirty. If I was to wear them home, I grab new ones on my way out. There are huge piles of clean laundered scrubs to choose from. Doctors and nurses are surprisingly hygienic. Sometimes they even wash their hands! Labcoats on the other hand are a different story……..” Well, that’s not what the linked story says, but your results may vary.