MedCapStore Blog

    There are certain things you expect when you work in healthcare. Long days. Busy days. Days when lunch happens at a perfectly reasonable time—like 3:47 in the afternoon. But then there are the other things. The things nobody really mentions. Like the fact that you can own twelve perfectly good pens and somehow finish the day with none of them. Where do they go? Seriously. There has to be a drawer somewhere in a hospital filled with thousands of pens, three missing badge reels, somebody's good scissors and at least seventeen phone chargers. And then there's coffee. You...

            I have a quick question. Who decided.... September means we are suddenly suppose to make a quick adjustment ...Autumn? Summer barely packed its bag and already there are calendars filling up, school papers appearing on kitchen counters, appointments we forgot we made, and somebody asking what we’re doing for Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving? Can we get through Thursday first?  For those working in healthcare, the whole idea of a neat little seasonal transition is especially questionable. There isn’t exactly a meeting where everyone agrees that summer has ended and things will now become calm and organized....

    There’s a certain point in August when summer hasn’t actually left, but apparently everyone has decided it’s over. You walk into a store for toothpaste and suddenly there are pumpkins. Pumpkins? We were just looking for sunscreen. And just like that, back-to-school season has arrived. Kids are heading back to classrooms, traffic has remembered how to be annoying again, and somewhere right now a parent is searching the house for a lunchbox that absolutely existed three months ago. For those of us working in healthcare, the change of season can be a little less obvious. Hospitals don’t exactly...

      For healthcare professionals, summer never really ends all at once. It just quietly slips away...one sports physical, one school bus, and one cup of cold coffee at a time.   Seriously...didn't we just get used to saying, "It's finally summer?" Now, all of a sudden, the stores have backpacks stacked to the ceiling, school buses are getting washed, and somewhere out there a parent has just realized their child needs supplies for a class they've never even heard of. Can someone explain to me how every August the entire country suddenly can't find a pair of kid's shoes?...

When the Shift Ends Have you ever seen something and thought, “I have absolutely no idea why I like this…” And then five minutes later you’re still thinking about it? That’s kind of the point. When we’re at work, everything has a purpose. We follow procedures. We solve problems. We make decisions. Most of our day is spent in a world where things are supposed to make sense. Then the shift ends. And suddenly life gets a little more interesting. That’s where our new Graphic Tee collection comes in. These aren’t shirts chosen because they’re practical. They’re not trying to...