Veda #31 : Scrubs

Day 31
"Why the doctors and nurses always using green/blue scrubs when they operate?"


Familiar with tv series House?Grey's Anatomy?or the classic ER or Scrubs?
No problem if you haven't seen one of those movies, they all telling life in hospital as medical and surgical unit at the hospital. i'm not gonna tell each synopsis of those movies, but i'll tell you about their apparel, called Scrubs. Scrubs are the shirts and trousers or gowns worn by nurses, surgeons, and other operating room personnel when "scrubbing in" for surgery. They are designed to be simple with minimal places for dirt to hide, easy to launder, and cheap to replace if damaged or stained irreparably.
Now, do you know why this scrubs always coloured green (or in some case : blue)?

Earlier history tell that usually the doctors wearing white suit, to resembles clean and hygiene, because it's vital to health, or to sick persons, they must treated with hygiene stuff. This is a basic colour's psychology on most human's mind.
But then, if we talk about scrubs, most of the doctor change their clothes to green suit, because of the simple reason : it is more comfortable and refreshing to looked at. Although it is hard to believe and lack of logical reasons, green color is very suitable for the operating doctors and nurses to help them see better, because green is the opposite of red in color's wheel.
interesting isn't it?why?
According to Psychologist, seeing green color could refresh the eyes of the surgeon who stare at red things for a long period of time, this is including the blood and internal organ of the body. Seeing red color (or any 1 color) for too long will cause the brain lose its sensitivity to those color, and made the eyes a little bit blurry. Other case mentioned that it'll triggering some color illusion on bright color.
i.e : if the surgeon stare at the red blood for too long, the eyes will become blurry and they'll see some color illusion of red when they see the white or bright background.
So, that's why they using green color to help neutralize this illusion and improve permormance when operating.

About some of the surgeon or doctor using blue?the reason is simple, red is hot color, and to help neutralize it, use the cold colors such as green or blue.