Women in Scrubs

If you're going to change yourself to match the people around you, Joe figured, you may as well start with the best. He sat near the front, with three women in scrubs who were having a fast-paced, almost incomprehensible conversation about rounds and duties, full of medical terms he didn't understand.

Only, he found he slowly started picking them up. These women, he realized, were nurses. He winced in sympathy as one described a nightmare patient who was personally difficult to deal with, demanding, and kept ending up in the ER for eating the one food he was allergic to.

And if his body got a little slimmer, his hair a little longer, he was too engrossed in the conversation to really notice.