Your question is quite interesting. Maybe there is power in white (uniforms). Every where I turn, someone is wearing scrubs. Currently I am a hospital director, but it still frustates me that nurses blend in with any and everybody. In particular, if I may, my family doctor employs approx 4 medical assistants and they all identify themselves as nurses!! It drives me crazy!!! It seems that there is no more respect for us. I wear a white lab coat over my dress clothes at work. I think there is some power in wearing white!