scrubs

Flanked by fellow health care workers in their scrubs and surrounded by white-shrouded dead bodies in the hospital courtyard, Abu-Sittah, a British-Palestinian volunteer in Gaza with Doctors Without Borders, described how people came to the hospital in search of safety.

At Wilshire and Gayley, the trip’s loudest, ugliest intersection, I noticed a guy straddling a 10-speed wearing scrubs.

Bundles of surgical scrubs, and packets of surgical instruments were opened to show there was nothing concealed.

Close by, another puja creates a tableau of the bereaved family, the mother sitting on the bed, the father at a sewing machine, their daughter’s picture in doctor’s scrubs on the wall.

A drug dealer who changed her name and went on the run for 16 months was finally found wearing a "fancy dress" NHS lanyard and scrubs.