Sniff Test

So you know that SMELL on the anatomy floor in a med school? And in the stairwell, and the hallway, and the bathrooms, and pretty much everywhere that first year med students go?

I have a theory that most of that is because there are students who have never washed their scrubs. Ever. How do I know this? Well besides the fact that some med students openly cop to never washing their scrubs, and the fact that we didn't stink the first day when our scrubs were new and pretty,... try this little experiment. Walk close to your dirty scrubs (which have only been worn to 1 or 2 lab sessions) and see how close you can get before they actually start stinking. Sure, they reek when you get close... but they don't permeate the entire house. Now have you noticed how just 1 stinky anatomy student can be over 10 feet away from you even BEFORE lab, and still make you gag? Yuck. That didn't happen overnight. That's pure anatomy funk.

So I'm proposing that if you conduct the "sniff test" and you can smell cadaveric nastiness wafting from your scrubs from further than 3 feet, it might be time for a little Tide action. For the health of your fellow classmates.